dictated by the amount of language work which can be carded out, given the resources available. The This paper introduces Boas, a semi-automatic rules of the game specifically exclude linguists and knowledge elicitation system that guides a team of MT developers from the acquisition team. Under two people through the process of developing the such conditions, the only sensible course of action static knowledge sources for a moderate-quality, is to attempt to collect as much knowledge about as broad-coverage MT system from any "low-denmany languages as possible in advance and include sity" language into English in about six months
