Nakel Multilingual Translation Software

Nakel is a state-of-the-art bi-directional machine translation program for Arabic whose approach is completely different from the word-by-word translation that other Arabic translation software. Nakel works with the sentence as the basic unit of translation in a rule-based processing system and knowledge database, with a strong parser, deep syntactic analysis and selective semantic analysis to detect main verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms. It works in both batch and interactive mode, with menus in English or Arabic, and is capable of translating 60,000 words per hour depending on processor speed. It can translate a complete file, or just a paragraph or sentence, transliterates proper nouns, handles abbreviations and manages multiple meanings, and has a dictionary of 150,000 entries.