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4.3.2 Direct translation<br />

4.3. BASIC MACHINE TRANSLATION STRATEGIES<br />

Figure 4.1: Direct MT system<br />

Direct translation is the oldest approach <strong>to</strong> MT. The direct translation strategy passes each<br />

sentence text <strong>to</strong> be translated through a series of standard stages. If the MT system uses<br />

direct translation, this usually means that there is no syntactic analysis after the morpho-<br />

logical analysis <strong>for</strong> the source language. The translation is based on large dictionaries<br />

and word-by-word translation with some simple grammatical adjustments e.g. on word<br />

order and morphology. A direct translation model is shown in Figure 4.1. This strategy<br />

is no longer in significant use.<br />

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