Automatic Translation of English Nominal Compound in Hindi

English nominal compounds can be variously translated into Hindi. This paper presents an automatic translation system for translating English bigram nominal compound into Hindi. The method comprises of the following steps: (1) Translation template generation (2) Extraction of nominal compound from English corpus (3) Finding the appropriate sense of the components of the compound using WSD tool (4) Lexical substitution of the component nouns using Bi-Lingual Dictionary (5) Corpus Search using translation templates and Ranking of possible candidates. We have shown that the correct sense selection of the component nouns of a given nominal compound during the analysis stage significantly improves the performance of the system and makes the present work distinct from all the previous works done for automatic bilingual translation of Nominal compounds. 1.