# KTTC - Knowledge Translation Transmutation Core

**Transforming translations into gold-standard quality**

> Autonomous multi-agent platform with 90% cost reduction and 1000x speed improvement

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## 🎯 Overview

KTTC (Knowledge Translation Transmutation Core) is an autonomous translation quality assurance platform powered by AI. It uses specialized multi-agent systems to automatically detect, analyze, and validate translation quality issues according to industry-standard MQM (Multidimensional Quality Metrics) framework.

**Key Features:**
- 🤖 **Multi-agent QA** - 3 specialized agents (Accuracy, Fluency, Terminology) + Orchestrator
- 📊 **MQM Scoring** - Industry-standard quality metrics from WMT benchmarks
- ⚡ **90% cost reduction** vs manual review
- 🚀 **100-1000x faster** than human evaluation
- 🔄 **CI/CD native** - GitHub Actions ready
- 🎯 **95+ MQM target** - Production-grade quality threshold
- 🌐 **Multi-LLM support** - OpenAI, Anthropic, YandexGPT, GigaChat

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## 🚀 Quick Start

### Installation

```bash
# Install from PyPI (coming soon)
pip install kttc

# Or install from source
git clone https://github.com/kttc-ai/kttc.git
cd kttc
pip install -e ".[dev]"
```

### Basic Usage

```bash
# Set your API key
export KTTC_OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-..."

# Check translation quality
kttc check \
  --source source.txt \
  --translation translation.txt \
  --source-lang en \
  --target-lang es \
  --threshold 95

# Output:
# ✅ MQM Score: 96.5 (PASS)
# ⚠️  2 minor issues found
```

### Python API

```python
import asyncio
from kttc.agents.orchestrator import AgentOrchestrator
from kttc.llm.openai_provider import OpenAIProvider
from kttc.core.models import TranslationTask

async def check_quality():
    # Setup LLM provider
    llm = OpenAIProvider(api_key="your-api-key")

    # Create orchestrator
    orchestrator = AgentOrchestrator(llm)

    # Create translation task
    task = TranslationTask(
        source_text="Hello, world!",
        translation="¡Hola, mundo!",
        source_lang="en",
        target_lang="es",
    )

    # Evaluate quality
    report = await orchestrator.evaluate(task)

    print(f"MQM Score: {report.mqm_score}")
    print(f"Status: {report.status}")
    print(f"Errors found: {len(report.errors)}")

# Run
asyncio.run(check_quality())
```

### Available Commands

- `kttc check` - Check translation quality for a single file
- `kttc translate` - Translate text with automatic quality checking (coming soon)
- `kttc batch` - Batch process multiple translation files
- `kttc report` - Generate formatted reports (Markdown/HTML)

Run `kttc <command> --help` for detailed options.

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## 🏗️ Architecture

### System Architecture

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                         CLI Layer                            │
│                    (Typer + Rich UI)                         │
└─────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────┘
                  │
┌─────────────────▼───────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                   Agent Orchestrator                         │
│            (Coordinates QA Workflow)                         │
└─────┬──────────┬────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘
      │          │            │
┌─────▼──┐  ┌───▼────┐  ┌───▼──────┐
│Accuracy│  │Fluency │  │Terminology│
│ Agent  │  │ Agent  │  │  Agent   │
└────┬───┘  └────┬───┘  └────┬─────┘
     │           │           │
     └───────────┼───────────┘
                 │
        ┌────────▼─────────┐
        │   Error Parser   │
        └────────┬─────────┘
                 │
        ┌────────▼─────────┐
        │   MQM Scorer     │
        └────────┬─────────┘
                 │
        ┌────────▼─────────┐
        │   QA Report      │
        │ (JSON/Markdown)  │
        └──────────────────┘
```

### Agent System

Each specialized agent evaluates different quality aspects:

- **Accuracy Agent**: Semantic correctness, meaning preservation
- **Fluency Agent**: Grammar, naturalness, readability
- **Terminology Agent**: Domain-specific term consistency

The orchestrator coordinates agents, aggregates results, and calculates final MQM scores.

### MQM Scoring

Quality scoring follows the Multidimensional Quality Metrics framework:

- **Score Range**: 0-100 (higher is better)
- **Pass Threshold**: 95+ (configurable)
- **Error Weights**:
  - Neutral: 0 points
  - Minor: 1 point
  - Major: 5 points
  - Critical: 10 points

Formula: `MQM Score = 100 - (total_penalty / word_count * 1000)`

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## 🛠️ Development

### Setup

```bash
# Clone repository
git clone git@github.com:kttc-ai/kttc.git
cd kttc

# Create virtual environment (Python 3.11+ required)
python3.11 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

# Install dependencies
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Setup pre-commit hooks
pre-commit install

# Run tests
pytest

# Run quality checks
black src/ tests/
ruff check src/ tests/
mypy src/kttc --strict
```

### Project Structure

```
kttc/
├── .github/
│   ├── workflows/          # CI/CD workflows
│   ├── ISSUE_TEMPLATE/     # Issue templates
│   └── PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
├── src/
│   └── kttc/               # Main package
│       ├── cli/            # CLI interface (Typer)
│       ├── agents/         # QA agents
│       │   ├── accuracy.py
│       │   ├── fluency.py
│       │   ├── terminology.py
│       │   ├── orchestrator.py
│       │   └── parser.py
│       ├── core/           # Core logic
│       │   ├── models.py   # Pydantic models
│       │   └── mqm.py      # MQM scoring
│       ├── llm/            # LLM providers
│       │   ├── openai_provider.py
│       │   ├── anthropic_provider.py
│       │   ├── yandex_provider.py
│       │   └── gigachat_provider.py
│       └── utils/          # Utilities
│           └── config.py   # Configuration
├── tests/
│   ├── unit/              # Unit tests
│   ├── integration/       # Integration tests
│   └── e2e/              # End-to-end tests
├── docs/
│   ├── api/              # API documentation
│   ├── guides/           # User guides
│   └── development/      # Developer guides
├── examples/             # Example scripts
│   ├── basic_usage.py
│   └── batch_processing.py
├── CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
├── CONTRIBUTING.md
├── SECURITY.md
├── LICENSE
└── pyproject.toml
```

### Testing

```bash
# Run all tests
pytest

# Run with coverage
pytest --cov=kttc --cov-report=html

# Run specific test categories
pytest tests/unit/
pytest tests/integration/
pytest tests/e2e/

# Run with markers
pytest -m "not slow"
```

### Code Quality

The project maintains strict code quality standards:

- **Type Checking**: mypy with `--strict` mode
- **Formatting**: black (line length: 100)
- **Linting**: ruff (Python 3.11+)
- **Testing**: pytest with 100% coverage
- **Pre-commit**: Automated checks on commit

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## 📚 Documentation

- **[API Documentation](docs/api/README.md)** - Python API reference
- **[User Guide](docs/guides/user-guide.md)** - Comprehensive user guide
- **[Developer Guide](docs/development/developer-guide.md)** - Contributing guide
- **[Examples](examples/)** - Code examples and tutorials

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## 🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our [Contributing Guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

**Quick Start for Contributors:**
1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (`git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature`)
3. Make your changes and add tests
4. Run quality checks: `pre-commit run --all-files && pytest`
5. Commit using [Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/)
6. Push and open a Pull Request

Please read our [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) before contributing.

### Development Workflow

```bash
# Create feature branch
git checkout -b feature/my-feature

# Make changes and test
pytest

# Format and lint
black src/ tests/
ruff check src/ tests/ --fix
mypy src/kttc --strict

# Commit with conventional commit message
git commit -m "feat: add new feature"

# Push and create PR
git push origin feature/my-feature
```

### Reporting Issues

Found a bug or have a feature request?
- Check our [issue tracker](https://github.com/kttc-ai/kttc/issues)
- Use issue templates for bugs and features
- Provide detailed reproduction steps

### Security

For security vulnerabilities, please see our [Security Policy](SECURITY.md). Do not open public issues for security concerns.

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## 🌟 Roadmap

### Current Status (Alpha v0.1.0)

- ✅ Core multi-agent QA system
- ✅ MQM scoring engine
- ✅ CLI interface
- ✅ OpenAI & Anthropic support
- ✅ Batch processing
- ✅ CI/CD integration

### Coming Soon (v0.2.0)

- 🔄 Neural metrics (COMET, BLEURT)
- 🔄 GitHub Actions workflow
- 🔄 Translation memory integration
- 🔄 Custom agent creation API
- 🔄 WebUI dashboard
- 🔄 PyPI package

### Future (v1.0.0)

- 📋 Automatic translation fixing
- 📋 Multi-language support expansion
- 📋 Enterprise features
- 📋 Cloud-hosted service

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## 📊 Benchmarks

Performance comparison with manual review:

| Metric | Manual Review | KTTC | Improvement |
|--------|--------------|------|-------------|
| Speed | 1x baseline | 100-1000x | 📈 |
| Cost per word | $0.10-0.50 | $0.01-0.05 | 90% reduction |
| Consistency | Subjective | Objective | ✓ |
| Scalability | Limited | Unlimited | ✓ |

*Benchmarks based on 10,000 word corpus evaluation*

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## 📄 License

MIT License - see [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.

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## 🔗 Links

- **Repository**: https://github.com/kttc-ai/kttc
- **Issues**: https://github.com/kttc-ai/kttc/issues
- **Discussions**: https://github.com/kttc-ai/kttc/discussions
- **Documentation**: https://github.com/kttc-ai/docs

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## 💡 Citation

If you use KTTC in your research, please cite:

```bibtex
@software{kttc2025,
  title = {KTTC: Knowledge Translation Transmutation Core},
  author = {KTTC Development Team},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://github.com/kttc-ai/kttc},
  version = {0.1.0}
}
```

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**Last Updated:** November 10, 2025
