A Rule Based Approach for Japanese-Uyghur Machine Translation System

Japanese Uyghur machine translation system has been designed and developed using recent rule based approach. Even though Japanese and Uyghur language has many similarities, but there are also some linguistic differences cause serious problems to the word for word translation. In fact, as straightforward word-for-word Japanese-Uighur translation sometimes yields unnatural Uighur sentences. To raise the translation accuracy, the authors propose a word-for-word translation system using subject verb agreement in Uighur. After a brief introduction to the comparative study of Japanese-Uyghur grammars, morphology and syntax, the authors explain their developing of a word to word rule base system. The coverage of this rule base system, the rules for translation, comparison of experimental result between statistical machine translation system and rule base machine translation system are explained. Some practical suffix translation methods solving problems in Uyghur language are also proposed.