The translation of examples , citations , definitions and glosses in the Papillon project

The Papillon lexical data base comprises a set of detailed monolingual dictionaries of « lexies » (word senses) interlinked through « axies » (interlingual links) which can also refer to external semanticsoriented systems such as UNL « universal words », Worldnet « synsets », Ontos « concepts » or NTT ALT/JE system « semantic classes ». The basic idea is that bilingual or multitarget usage dictionaries can be generated ad libitum from the data base. This implies that examples, citations, definitions and glosses expressed in each language be translated into all other languages and stored into the data base. Storing can be achieved in a simple and « seamless » way by introducing « auxiliary» lexies and axies for these « free language elements ». But translating all these elements into all languages is a major subproject of the Papillon project. We propose to use the mutualization feature of the Papillon server and help voluntary contributors perform of postedit translations using a shared, web-oriented translation workbench using the « Montaigne » architecture. We also propose to use freely available UNL web sites to get first drafts of translations, thereby attaching full UNL graphs to auxiliary axies. In the future, a « coedition » technique, still at the research stage, could be used to improve the UNL graphs a posteriori and transparently from any language, and get improved translations in all target languages. Mots-clés : Papillon multilingual data base, N-N translation of dictionary information, Montaigne architecture, interlingual representation, coedition of text & UNL graph