Comparison Of English-Kashmiri Language In Context To Machine Translation
Keywords:
NLP; Machine Translation; English-Kashmir Language pair; Divergence.Abstract
English is a language that belongs to Indo-European family and has a Latin script writing system while
Kashmiri (koshur) on the other hand is from Dardic subgroup of Indo-Aryan family of languages and has a dominant
Persian alphabet writing system. However, these contrasts matter very scantily while the language pair is subject to
machine translation. The paper gives a brief comparison of the two languages based on their orthography, scripts,
consonants, vowels, punctuation marks, grammar and a detailed comparison of language structure (Syntactic Vs
Analytical), ambiguity, gender disagreement, Named Entity Recognition (NER), collocations, etc. The latter
characteristics determine almost 90 percent whether a machine transition is fairly intelligible or incomprehensible, so
there comprehensive study is the first step while attempting to machine translate any language pair.
