Visualization of Protocols of the Parsing and Semantic Interpretation Steps in a Machine Translation System

In this paper, we describe a tool for the vi- sualization of process protocols produced by the parsing and semantic interpretation mod- ules in a complex machine translation system. These protocols tend to reach considerable sizes, and error tracking in them is tedious and time- consuming. We show how the data in the pro- tocols can be made more easily accessible by extracting a procedural trace, by splitting the protocols into a collection of cross-linked hyper- text files, by indexing the files, and by using simple text formatting and sorting of structural elements.