Abstract
Recently, instant translator applications would be a very useful applications when traveling especially when one knows little about the language of the country she/he is traveling to. Arabic to English instant translation has not yet been made available by most applications. In this Article, we attempt to provide mimic way of an application for instant Arabic to English translation. The system provides translation for Arabic Triangle of Language (ālmṯlṯātāllġwyh) which includes Arabic three words that are homographs. The process starts by capturing an image for a homograph using a mobile phone camera, after that the captured word is recognized, taking the diacritic markers into consideration, using an Arabic Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Finally, the system provides an English translation to the homograph. The researchers made use of Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) features and a set of structural and geometrical features of Arabic word segmented and the SVM (multi class) classifier for classification, then providing the English meaning.
Highlights
In the modern age, machines have been used in different domains to improve humans’ life and facilitate communication
We point out salient results for translating Arabic captured images of three words that are homographs after being recognized, taking the diacritics markers into consideration
To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, two hundred Arabic word homographs were taken from the Arabic poem, as the data set as input to the experiments to be recognized translated
Summary
Machines have been used in different domains to improve humans’ life and facilitate communication. Machine Translation (MT), which is defined as the process by which a computer application is used to translate texts from one natural language into another, is used nowadays by millions of users to translate message letters and website content from one natural language into another. One of the recent applications of MT is machine Instant translation. Machine instant translation is the process of translating linguistic content from one language into other using mobile devices with a camera. This type of machine translation relies on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) that helps the machine read textual material on images and translate the content into another natural language.
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