MaTra: A Practical Approach to Fully-Automatic Indicative English- Hindi Machine Translation

MaTra is a fully automatic system for indicative English-Hindi Machine Translation (MT) of general-purpose texts. This paper discusses the strengths of the MaTra approach, especiall y focusing on the robust strategy for parsing and the intuitive intermediate representation used by the system. This approach allows convenient enhancement of the linguistic capabilities of the translation system, while making it possible for us to produce acceptable translations even as the system evolves. This paper also presents encouraging results of automatic evaluation using BLEU/NIST and subjective evaluation by human judges.