Machine Translation system for Standard Punjabi to Malwai Dialect

A lot of work is done on the standard varieties of Indian languages in the field of MT but dialectal variety of a language is still an unexplored area. Machine Translation between a Standard language and its dialect is easy as standard variety and its dialect are closely related to each other. When the Language pair is closely related then due to the common grammar and vocabulary, it become easy to develop a MT system.

In Punjab generally Malwai, Majhi, Doabi and Powadi dialect are used for the oral communication and no work is still done on any dialect in the field of Machine Translation. This Paper discusses the various phases in the development of Machine Translation system for Standard Punjabi - Malwai dialect pair.