Implementation And Conversational Environment Of ARIANE 78.4, An Integrated System For Automated Translation And Human Revision

ARIANE-78.4 is a computer system designed to o f fe r an adequate environment for construct ing machine t rans la t ion programs, for running them, and for (humanly) rev is ing the rough t rans la t ions produced by the computer. ARIANE-78 has been operat iona l at GETA for more than 4 years now. This paper refers to version 4. I t has been used for a number of appl icat ions (russian and japanese, engl ish to french and malay, portuguese to engl ish) and has constant ly been amended to meet the needs of the users. Parts of th is system have been presented before [ 2 ,3 ,7 ,8 ] , but i t s whole has only been described in in ternal technical documents.