Integrating Knowledge Bases and Statistics in MT

2 System Design: Philosophy We summarize recent machine translation (MT) research at the Information Sciences Institute of USC, and we describe its application to the development of a Japanese-English newspaper MT system. Our work aims at scaling up grammar-based, knowledge-based MT techniques. This scale-up involves the use of statistical methods, both in acquiring e ective knowledge resources and in making reasonable linguistic choices in the face of knowledge gaps. USC/Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292 knight,chander,haines,vh,hovy,iida,luk,okumura,whitney,kyamada @isi.edu