EXISTING ENGLISH TO KHASI TRANSLATED DOCUMENTS FOR PARALLEL CORPORA DEVELOPMENT: A SURVEY

Importance of translation has been realized long way back, but mostly it was manual translation. Translating a particular language to another language requires knowledge and expertise in both the languages, and often takes a lot of time and effort. In recent past few decades, a need has arisen to translate using automated tools. This method which we now know as machine translation has been an ongoing research till date. Many tools and systems have been developed and these systems have been able to translate many languages with reasonable output based on the resources and technology used. In order to build such a system, a critical resource is the parallel corpora. To translate between two languages, a bilingual corpus is required. For some languages like Khasi where the number of speakers is very less compared to Bengali, Punjabi or Tamil, there is no such corpora reported so far. At present there is a requirement to build a parallel corpus so that machine translation work can be started. This paper surveys some of the existing documents in Khasi which has been translated from English. A study is also shown on a few selected documents. These documents could be used to build a bilingual corpus which can be the source for machine translation in the future