[01] Evangelos C. Papakitsos, Department of Education, School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, Iraklio Attikis, Greece. [02] Ioannis Giachos, Department of Linguistics, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

The present paper describes a software system that performs bidirectional machine translation between two constructed languages. These languages are made by one or more persons, for various purposes. Such an important purpose is the development of easy and almost natural communication interfaces with robots. Despite the linguistic simplicity of the constructed languages, the automated translation from one to the other confronts some of the fundamental algorithmic challenges that are also encountered in the machine translation of natural languages. Hence, the usage of constructed languages can be an easier way both to train linguistic engineers in developing machine translation software and to study the linking of different robotic interfaces, as a novel field of research.

Natural Language Understanding, Constructed Language, Machine Translation, Human-Computer Interaction

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