Journal of Applied Sciences1812-56541812-5662Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/jas.2013.79.86HebreshaHuda Alhusain AzizMohd Juzaiddin Ab 12013131Arabic machine translation has been taking place in machine
translation projects during last decade and so, many projects have been carried
out to enhance the quality of translation from and into Arabic. This research
concentrates on the translation of Classical Arabic (CA) rather than Modern
Standard Arabic. The challenges of this research are the difficulty of delivering
the appropriate meaning of the CA terms in the target language (English), different
sentence structure between two languages, word agreement and ordering problem.
Focusing on these issues, the research purpose was to create an automatic translation
system to translate text from CA into English using Rule-based approach. The
developed system Classical Arabic Machine Translation (CAMT) involves three
phases which are: analysis, transfer and generation. In the analysis phase the
CA input text is analyzed morphologically and syntactically. The transfer stage
includes constructing reasonable rule of the CA input text structure and its
equivalent rule in the target language (English). In the final phase, the Arabic
source text will be generated to obtain the target text in English. The evaluation
process is done by comparing the output produced by our system with the original
human translation using iBLEU metric. An accuracy of 89.4% was the results produced
by iBLEU algorithm, which prove that using Rule-based approach provides good
results in translating CA into English.]]>Abdelmeneim, S.,20082008Abu Shquier, M.M. and T.M.T. Sembok,20082008pp: 110Alla, R., S. Richard and B. Elabbas,20052005Amna, M.H.,20112011Hatem, A. and N. Omar,2010118198206Attia, M.A.,20042004Daniel, J. and H. James,2009Habash, N.,2006Owens, J.,1984642562Madnani, N.,20112011pp: 213214Shenassa, M.E. and M.J. Khalvandi,2008Fauzan, M. and N. Othman,2006Papineni, K., S. Roukos, T. Ward and W.J. Zhu,20022002pp: 311318Perlmann, M.,1961Chen, P.P.S.,198329127149Salem, Y.,20092009Shaalan, K.,201031119Shirko, O.,20102010