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In theory, you can translate between any two languages, but big linguistic differences mean lots of work to get translation working.</p><h3>Do I have to have FLEx lexicons in order to use <b>FLExTrans</b>?</h3><p><b>FLExTrans</b> needs FLEx lexicons for the source and target languages. If you don’t have these, you can gradually build lexicons as you go.</p><h3>How is <strong>FLExTrans</strong> different from statistical machine translation system like Google Translate?</h3><p>Statistical systems like Google Translate rely on huge amounts of data for a given language pair. With this data models are created that make a statistical prediction of what a word or sentence translates to. <strong>FLExTrans</strong> does not rely on large amounts of data like this. Instead <strong>FLExTrans</strong> is a rule-based system. 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