English to Polish Social Sciences Education / Pedagogy

We study challenges raised by the order of Arabic verbs and their subjects in statistical machine translation (SMT). We show that the boundaries of post-verbal subjects (VS) are hard to detect accurately, even with a state-of-the-art Arabic dependency parser. In addition, VS constructions have highly ambiguous reordering patterns when translated to English, and these patterns are very different for matrix (main clause) VS and non-matrix (subordinate clause) VS