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Management Fever (premium) • John Freivalds, JFA, Inc.
Director’s letter (premium) • Michael Anobile
ExCom Corner (premium) • Henri Broekmate, TRADOS Corporation
OSCAR Advances • Alan Melby, Brigham Young University
MARTIF Lite: User-driven Terminology Interchange • Robin Bonthrone, Fry & Bonthrone Partnerschaft
The KANT Translation System (premium) • Eric Nyberg, Carnegie Mellon University, Christine Kamprath, Caterpillar, Inc. & Teruko Mitamura, Carnegie Mellon University
‘What Will Be’ for the Localization Industry (premium) • Minako O’Hagan, School of Communications and Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
SLIG 1997 - Not Just Another Acronym (premium) • Theodora Landgren, BTS/Translation Group Ltd.

The KANT Translation System

From R&D to Large-scale Deployment

Eric Nyberg, Carnegie Mellon University, Christine Kamprath, Caterpillar, Inc. & Teruko Mitamura, Carnegie Mellon University

KANT, a knowledge-based translation system for multilingual information dissemination in pre-defined technical domains which has been deployed for French and Spanish translations at Caterpillar, Inc., generated considerable interest at the IATT Workshop in Washington DC in June 1997. In this article, the authors give a brief technical summary of the system, followed by a discussion of the user’s perspective and experience and a discussion of ongoing work and future plans for the KANT software.

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