An Approach to Handle Idioms and Phrasal Verbs in English to Myanmar Machine Translation System

The structure of idioms and phrasal verbs areflexible in nature hence quite complex and challengingto handle in machine translation system. In this paper,an approach to handle idioms and phrasal verbs forEnglish-Myanmar machine translation is proposed.This technique consists of two phases, the analyzingphase and the grouping phase. In the analyzing phase,the given English sentence is analyzed to find whetherit contains any phrasal verbs or idioms. In thegrouping phase, if any phrasal verb or idiom is foundin the given sentence, it will be grouped into a singleunit and it will be categorized with a special tag inorder to denote it as the phrasal verb or idiom. Theproposed approach can be incorporated with rulebased English-Myanmar machine translation systemwith some modifications and can increase the accuracyof translation