Building a Machine Translation System in a Restrict Context from Ka-Tu Language into Vietnamese

Abstract

The paper introduces some basic characteristics of Ka Tu language, from that we built the machine translation system from Ka Tu language into Vietnamese in a restrict context for translating the weather forecast bulletins, supporting the communication of Ka Tu language of Vietnamese voice emission. The system was tested at the Quang Nam Radio and Television station. The initial Results are Positive for the test of the system. The machine translation system from Ka Tu language into Vietnamese in a restrict context contributed to solving the serious lack of information in aboriginal languages and can be expanded into other areas such as warming fire alarm, broadcasting policies and laws of the State, farming experience, animal husbandry, natural disaster prevetion... Because the corpus with open structure, the optical axis is in Vietnamese language, a multilingual corpus can be easily built by adding other ethnic languages such as Cham, Ede, Jarai, Muong,...