A GENERIC PLATFORM FOR DEVELOPING LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND APPLICATIONS

The paper describes a unification-based language engineering platform meant for development of reversible language resources and linguistic applications. The platform, called EGLU (Environnment Generique Linguistique d’Unification) is an enhanced generalized port of ISSCO’s original ELU from SUN-OS Allegro Common Lisp to Macintosh Common Lisp and Carnegie Mellon Lisp (under Solaris). Several language resources have been developed, ranging from small demo MT systems (French-English), medium-size grammars (French) to large dictionaries (Romanian language).