Multiword expressions in English to Swahili machine translation : Nouns

In machine translation, two types of multiword expressions (MWE) must be considered. Such expressions may occur in source text and target text, or in both. A MWE in source text may be a MWE also in target text. There are also cases, when a MWE in source text corresponds to a single word in target text. However, the majority of cases are such, where a single word in source text corresponds to a MWE in target text. In this report we discuss the last type of cases. Th emphasis is on nouns