Why does agglutinative morphology, like in Turkish, allow relatively simpler machine translation compared to fusional languages such as Spanish or Italian?

💡 Explanation

Agglutinative languages exhibit transparent morphology because each morpheme typically has a single, easily identifiable function. Therefore, segmentation for machine translation becomes simpler rather than requiring complex disambiguation inherent in fusional languages where morphemes encode multiple features simultaneously.

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