TRANSLATING IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY
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Key words: idiomatic expressions, translation, corpus-based study, figurative meaningAbstract
Abstract: Idiomatic expressions are an integral part of language, but they pose a significant challenge to machine translation systems due to their non-compositional nature. This thesis presents a corpus-based study that investigates the translation of idiomatic expressions from English to Arabic and vice versa. The study uses a parallel corpus of news articles and focuses on three types of idioms: verb-based, adjective-based, and noun-based. The aim of the study is to identify the translation strategies used by machine translation systems and to evaluate their effectiveness in rendering idiomatic expressions accurately.
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