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why have one pivot at all? why can't french be the pivot between spanish and english?

if we must have one and you believe in euroversals, then german and/or french might be better than english…

Resources availability. English/X or X/English pairs probably exist for a lot of X and may be well endowed. But for any other X/Y pairs resources may not exist at all or be too small to use. That being said it is still interesting to develop this kind of ressources (for example dictionaries) because they can be used for other NLP tasks.

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