One of the core enabling technologies required in NLP applications is a Morphological Analysis. Verb Phrase Identification within a sentence is very useful for a variety of application on NLP. International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), India Online ISSN: 2319-7064 Volume 2 Issue 9, September 2013 Applying Rule-Based Maximum Matching Approach for Verb Phrase Identification and Translation (Myanmar to English) Soe, Thae Thae 1, Thida, Aye 2 1 University of Computer Studies, Mandalay, Myanmar 2 University of Computer Studies, Mandalay, Myanmar Abstract: Phrase Identification is one of the most critical and widely studied in Natural Language processing (NLP) tasks.