HyperLEX: Greece's first hypertext-based talking software dictionary

Greece's first Hypertext-based talking
Intelligent Translator's Software Tool

Click here to see HyperLEX's package appearance
(Athens shop-window picture)

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Development Languages and methods used:

PDC Prolog 3.31 (original compiler from "Prolog Development Centre", Denmark)

Assembler X86 (hand-written and optimized, for fast operation -even on 386 PCs)

Turbo 'C' (mostly for linking high-level Prolog code to Assembly subroutines)

Borland C++ (used by Mr. Miltiades Mitrakas for the Windows version 3, only)

Expert System Technology (used for hypertext-based Help and Spell checker)

High-Speed Hashing and Morphological Analysis (in Prolog, ASM-optimized)

Creative Technologies' "SoundBlaster Toolbox" (for pronunciation unit)

Version History:

version 1: 1991

version 2: 1992

versions 2.1, 2.2, 2.32: 1993

version 3: 1994

discontinued: 1998

Developer: George Alexander Stathis

Assistant Developers:

(GUI for Version 3, MS Windows) Mr. Miltiades Mitrakas

(special ASM code for HASP copy-protection) Mr. Panagiotis Rigatos

Producer:

"HyperLOGIC R&D" (a registered Greek I.T. company founded by G. A. Stathis)

Information Technology exhibitions where "HyperLEX" appeared:

First appearance: 1991 "Computers Expo 91" (Athens)

Second appearance: 1993 "Panorama (I.T.) Education Exhibition". (The "Panorama 1993 Exhibition" was part of the E.U.'s "Lingua" programme and was organised under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Interior)