SIMPLE MALAY TO ENGLISH TRANSLATOR

In the modern world, there is an increased need for language translation. Attempts of
language translation are as old as computer themselves. Machine translation is the
attempt to automate all, or part of the process of translating from one human language to
another language. Machine Translation involves translating from a source natural
language to a target language. Machine Translation is hard because structures in one
human language often do not correspond in a simple way to structures in another. This
paper represents a prototype of a Simple Malay to English Translator. This translator is
developed to translate simple Malay sentence to English sentence since there is not many
Malay-English translator available. The main tools that will be used for the project
development are Java Language, Forte for Java 4.0 Community Edition and Microsoft
Notepad version 5.1. From the research done, a dictionary that is used for a machine
translator is usually being created in a notepad file for easy retrieval compared to using
Microsoft Access of other database application. The ambiguity problem would not be
addressed in this project. Hence, the goal of the project is to translate syntactically correct
and the semantic factor is not taken into consideration.