We aim to develop an English-to-Yoruba machine translation system which can translate English verb phrase text to its Yoruba equivalent.Words from both languages Source Language and Target Language were collected for the verb phrase group in the home domain. The lexical translation is done by assigning values of the matching word in the dictionary. The syntax of the two languages was realized using Context-Free Grammar, we validated the rewrite rules with finite state automata. The human evaluation method was used and expert fluency was scored. The evaluation shows the system performed better than that of sampled Google translation with over 70 percent of the response matching that of the system's output.

翻译：我们旨在开发一个英语到约鲁巴语的机器翻译系统，该系统能够将英语动词短语文本翻译成对应的约鲁巴语。我们收集了来自源语言和目标语言中家庭领域动词短语组的相关词汇。词汇翻译通过字典中的匹配词赋值实现。两种语言的句法分析采用上下文无关文法，并通过有限状态自动机验证重写规则。我们采用了人工评估方法，并对专家流利度进行评分。评估结果显示，系统的表现优于抽样谷歌翻译，超过70%的响应与系统输出相匹配。