BUNSETSU-BASED JAPANESE-SINHALESE TRANSLATION SYSTEM

This paper presents the design and implementation techniques employed in a Japanese-to-Sinhalese machine translation system. The main result of this work is the successful application of Bunsetsu in generating meaningful translations for a flexible-grammar language. The system ha s been developed considering the similarities between Japanese Bunsets u and Sinhalese units. Such efforts are being focused on determining t he minimum reasonable grammatical knowledge necessary for machine tran slation. The principal characteristics of the system, the translation process, problems encountered during the development stages, present s tatus, and future plans will be discussed.