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    Design and Development of Human-Aided Rule-Based English-Amharic Machine Translation Prototype
    (Addis Ababa University, 2004-06) Shiferaw, Yehenew; Murthy Kavi, Narayana (Prof.); Fourla, Athanassia (PhD)
    Today, Machine Translation systems have been developed for different language pairs, which have a relatively wide use nationally and/or intern atonally. But, the Amharic language, despite its centuries of existence, has not yet been privileged to reap the benefits of this technological arena. This study has tried to develop a prototype translating system that translates texts from English into Amharic. The Source language is chosen to be English due to the fact that together with Amharic, English is serving as a teaching-learning language in the educational system of Ethiopia. The research is an attempt to improve and preserve the role of the Amharic language in the current electronic age of commerce and education. In the research, designing and structuring the translation process and resources implemented has been customized from the Shakhty Machine Translation (MT) system, which translates From English to Hindi. The Shakhty kit uses statistical as well as released approaches for processing language. It uses constituent structure at the chunk level and dependency relations at the sentence level of analyses is. It has specialized components for word sense disambiguation, parsing, Preposition attachment, phrasal verb identification, transfer grammar, sentence and word generation, and many others. The thesis, in short, describes the processes of transfer machine translation system Using rule-based approach. It discusses the whole process of analyzing the source language, the necessary features of syntactic transfer from the English language into Amharic and synthesizing the target language. The results obtained using sample sentences and phrases taken out from the toy article seem to encourage further largesse le research to be launched, especially with the aim of developing a full-fledged translation system