期刊名称：International Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Applications (IJAIA)
印刷版ISSN：0976-2191
电子版ISSN：0975-900X
出版年度：2020
卷号：11
期号：1
页码：79-91
DOI：10.5121/ijaia.2020.11107
出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：Many automatic translation works have been addressed between major European language pairs, by taking advantage of large scale parallel corpora, but very few research works are conducted on the Amharic-Arabic language pair due to its parallel data scarcity. However, there is no benchmark parallel Amharic-Arabic text corpora available for Machine Translation task. Therefore, a small parallel Quranic text corpus is constructed by modifying the existing monolingual Arabic text and its equivalent translation of Amharic language text corpora available on Tanzile. Experiments are carried out on Two Long ShortTerm Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Units (GRU) based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) using Attention-based Encoder-Decoder architecture which is adapted from the open-source OpenNMT system. LSTM and GRU based NMT models and Google Translation system are compared and found that LSTM based OpenNMT outperforms GRU based OpenNMT and Google Translation system, with a BLEU score of 12%, 11%, and 6% respectively.
关键词：Amharic;Arabic;Parallel Text Corpus;Neural Machine Translation;OpenNMT
