An interlingua aiming at communication on the web: how language-independent can it be?

  • Authors:

  • Ronaldo Teixeira Martins;Lucia Helena Machado Rino;Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes;Gisele Montilha;Osvaldo Novais de Oliveira, Jr.

  • Affiliations:

  • Núcleo Interinstitucional de Lingüística Computacional (NILC/São Carlos), SP, Brazil;Núcleo Interinstitucional de Lingüística Computacional (NILC/São Carlos), SP, Brazil;Núcleo Interinstitucional de Lingüística Computacional (NILC/São Carlos), SP, Brazil;Núcleo Interinstitucional de Lingüística Computacional (NILC/São Carlos), SP, Brazil;Núcleo Interinstitucional de Lingüística Computacional (NILC/São Carlos), SP, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • NAACL-ANLP-Interlinguas '00 Proceedings of the 2000 NAACL-ANLP Workshop on Applied interlinguas: practical applications of interlingual approaches to NLP - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe the Universal Networking Language, an interlingua to be plugged in a Web environment aiming at allowing for many-to-many information exchange, 'many' here referring to many natural languages. The interlingua is embedded in a Knowledge-Base MT system whose language-dependent modules comprise an encoder, a decoder, and linguistic resources that have been developed by native speakers of each language involved in the project. Issues concerning both the interlingua formalism and its foundational issues are discussed.