About 2~ years ago, ARPA initiated a new program in Machine Translation (MT). Three projects were funded: CANI)II)E, built by IBM in New York; I,INGSTA'I~, built by Dragon Systems in Boston; and PAN(;I,()SS, a col laborat ion of the Computing Research Laboratory at New Mexico State University, the Center for Machine Translation at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Information Sciences Institu...