On Ambiguity in the Arabic Language: Scrutinizing Translation Issues through Machine Translation from English and French into Arabic-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

On Ambiguity in the Arabic Language: Scrutinizing Translation Issues through Machine Translation from English and French into Arabic

Published:2024-03-01 Issue: Volume: Page:203-212
ISSN:1404-1634
Container-title:Journal of Intercultural Communication
language:en
Short-container-title:JICC

Author:

Zemni Bahia¹^ORCID,Zitouni Mimouna²^ORCID,Bouhadiba Farouk²^ORCID,Almutairi Mashael²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Translation, College of Languages, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2. Translation Department, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Ambiguity in some syntactic structures of the same language has always posed problems to the human translator and to machine translation. These problems become more complex for the Machine Translation of genetically unrelated languages such as Arabic, English and French. Arabic Lexical ambiguity in Natural Language Processing (NLP) also poses problems when the semantic fields of Arabic words differ from those of English for instance. This often occurs when two or more words from Arabic equate to a single word in English. Semantic gaps between the two languages are also a source of ambiguity in Natural Language Processing. We shall deal with some cases of ambiguity in machine translation from Arabic to English and French and vice versa. The questions addressed in this paper relate to segmentation, determination / non-determination, coordination and the issue of the word as a meaningful and functional unit. Some aspects of the segmentation of constituents into grammatical categories and their comparison with structures of Arabic English and French are addressed in this paper.

Publisher

International Collaboration for Research and Publications

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