Editing Dictionary-based machine translation (section)

== Lexical Conceptual Structure ==
One of the possible uses of Dictionary-Based Machine Translation is facilitating "Foreign Language Tutoring" (FLT). This can be achieved by using Machine-Translation technology as well as linguistics, semantics and morphology to produce "Large-Scale Dictionaries"<ref name=":3" /> in virtually any given language. Development in [[lexical semantics]] and [[computational linguistics]] during the time period between 1990 and 1996 made it possible for "natural language processing" (NLP) to flourish, gaining new capabilities, nevertheless benefiting machine translation in general.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|title = Large-Scale Dictionary Construction for Foreign Language Tutoring and Interlingual Machine Translation|journal = Machine Translation|volume = 12|issue = 4|pages = 271–322|last = Dorr|first=Bonnie J.|s2cid = 1548552|author-link=Bonnie Dorr|doi = 10.1023/A:1007965530302|year = 1997}}</ref>

"Lexical Conceptual Structure" (LCS) is a representation
that is language independent. It is mostly used in foreign language tutoring,
especially in the natural language processing element of FLT. LCS has also
proved to be an indispensable tool for machine translation of any kind, such as
Dictionary-Based Machine Translation. Overall one of the primary goals of LCS
is "to demonstrate that synonymous verb senses share distributional patterns".<ref name=":3" />