Editing Dictionary-based machine translation (section)

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[[Machine translation]] can use a method based on [[dictionary]] entries, which means that the words will be translated as a dictionary does – word by word, usually without much correlation of meaning between them. Dictionary lookups may be done with or without [[Morphology (linguistics)|morphological analysis]] or [[lemmatisation]]. While this approach to machine translation is probably the least sophisticated, '''dictionary-based machine translation''' is ideally suitable for the translation of long lists of phrases on the subsentential (i.e., not a full sentence) level, e.g. [[inventory|inventories]] or simple catalogs of products and services.<ref>Uwe Muegge (2006), "An Excellent Application for Crummy Machine Translation: Automatic Translation of a Large Database", in Elisabeth Gräfe (2006; ed.), ''Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the German Society of Technical Communicators'', Stuttgart: tekom, 18–21.</ref>

It can also be used to speed up manual translation, if the person carrying it out is fluent in both languages and therefore capable of correcting syntax and grammar.