- T. Mitamura, Eric Nyberg, J. Carbonell. 1994. KANT: Knowledge-Based, Accurate Natural Language Translation. Abstract: KANT is an interlingual MT system for multi-lingual translation of technical documents, written using a controlled vocabulary and grammar. KANT is comprised of a set of software modules (parser, interpreter, mapper, generator) which work together to produce target language translations from controlled source text. These modules are the result of long-term research and development in practical machine translation at the Center for Machine Translation (CMT) at Carnegie Mellon University, located in Pittsburgh, PA. The KANT software grew out of extensions and refinements to earlier systems developed at the CMT, which include the CMT-SEMSYN system, a collaborative effort with the University of Stuttgart in the domain of doctor patient communications (Japanese and English source languages to Japanese, English and German target languages), and the KBMT-89 system, a funded project with IBM's Tokyo Research Laboratory in the domain of PC installation manuals (Japanese and English to Japanese and English; cf. (Goodman and Nirenburg, 1991)).
