English-Thai Example-Based Machine Translation using n-gram model

Abstract

The necessity on exchanging information among countries become a major task in information based society. Machine translation is an application that enables users to communicate each other without language barrier problem. With the great support on computer's efficiency, corpus-based technology becomes a fundamental concept for developing software based on a large amount of data. We introduce the first example-based English to Thai machine translation using n-gram model and implemented the system. Some advantages and disadvantages of this method are discussed.