Assessing the Machine Translation Quality of Decontextualized English Sports Idioms into Arabic
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https://doi.org/10.25130/jfa.conf.10.5.16Keywords:
Machine Translation, Sport Idioms, Decontextualization, Nababan ModelAbstract
This current paper investigates the assessment of the machine translation of selected decontextualized sports idioms from English into Arabic. The idiom is a fixed expression whose meaning is not immediately obvious from looking at the individual words in the idiom. Machine translating of idioms is one of the most challenging tasks in translation, due to their cultural specificity and non-literal meanings. There are significant problems arise when these idioms are rendered by machine because this translation tackles the meaning without a context. This paper hypothesizes that the machine translation may give a literal meaning which is easily understood in Arabic. In this paper, Nababan's model is employed to assess the accuracy of the machine translation for fifteen English sports idioms rendered into Arabic
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