100 Q&A's on HowNet -- 007. Are you developing any HowNet-based machine translation systems?

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Yes, we have recently built a HowNet-based English-to-Chinese MT system, named HowNet MT. The system is a rule-based and semantic-enhanced system. As the system employs much common-sense knowledge and semantics, its translation quality is incredibly good, or better than the free MT systems on the web. The system is composed of three parts: HowNet Knowledge-base, English syntactic and semantic analysis subsystem and Chinese synthesis subsystem. The English analysis subsystem can be used on its own as an English parser to meet other NLP demands.