Heloise —- A Reengineering of Ariane-G5 SLLPs for Application to $pi$-languages
Vincent Berment, Christian Boitet · International Conference on Computational Linguistics · 2012
Heloise is a reengineering of the specialised languages for linguistic programming (SLLPs) of Ariane-G5 running both Linux and Windows. Heloise makes the core of Ariane-G5 available to anyone willing to develop “expert” (i.e. relying on linguistic expertise) operational machine translation (MT) systems in that framework, used with success since the 80’s to build many prototypes and a few systems of the “multilevel transfer” and “interlingua” architecture. This initiative is part of the movement to reduce the digital divide by providing easily understandable tools that allow the development of lingware for poorly-resourced languages (π-languages). This paper shows how Heloise can contribute to the democratisation of quality MT, describes some technical aspects of it, and provides elements of comparison with Ariane-G5.