Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Arabic Translation of Malay Idiomatic Phrases

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Qualitative analysis reveals AI struggles with figurative language in Malay-Arabic translation, highlighting cultural nuances.

NMT systems show high accuracy in literal translations but struggle significantly with idiomatic expressions, leading to potential inaccuracies.
The qualitative analysis synthesizes existing works on idiom translation, identifying key cultural challenges in the Malay-Arabic pair.
Findings indicate that cultural embeddedness severely impacts translation effectiveness in NMT systems, causing syntactical errors.
The results highlight the necessity for improved cultural understanding in AI models to enhance translation accuracy, especially for low-resource languages.

Saad et al. (2025) studied this question.

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