Interactive Gradio explorer for reviewed and raw Aquilign alignments of multilingual medieval textual traditions.
Aquilign Explorer provides a public interface for browsing alignment outputs produced with Aquilign. It is designed as a lightweight demo and reading interface for medievalists, philologists, computational humanities researchers, and collaborators who want to inspect multilingual alignments without installing the full Aquilign pipeline.
Open the live demo on Hugging Face Spaces
This interface allows users to explore alignment tables produced with Aquilign. It currently supports demo corpora from:
- Lancelot en prose
- De regimine principum
For each corpus, the interface can display both:
- Reviewed alignments: curated alignment samples manually reviewed for demonstration purposes.
- Raw alignments: automatic Aquilign output provided for transparency.
The first witness in each alignment table is treated as the main witness. Other columns are displayed as corresponding witnesses or textual versions.
- Browse multilingual alignment tables by corpus
- Switch between reviewed and raw Aquilign output
- Read a main witness alongside corresponding witnesses
- Navigate between aligned segments
- Search across witnesses
- Choose which witnesses to display
- Download the current dataset
- View the full alignment table
- Report alignment issues through GitHub
- Access related publications, datasets, and repositories
- Clone the repository
git clone git@github.com:ProMeText/aquilign-explorer.git
cd aquilign-explorer- Launch the interface:
python app.py- Then open the local Gradio URL in your browser
If you use Aquilign Explorer, the demo alignments, or the associated datasets, please cite the relevant publications and resources.
Gille Levenson, M., Ing, L., & Camps, J.-B. (2024). Textual Transmission without Borders: Multiple Multilingual Alignment and Stemmatology of the Lancelot en prose (Medieval French, Castilian, Italian). In W. Haverals, M. Koolen, & L. Thompson (Eds.), Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2024 (Vol. 3834, pp. 65–92). CEUR.
Ing, L., Gille Levenson, M., & Macedo, C. (2025). Multilingual Segmentation Dataset for Historical Prose (13th–16th c.) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16992629
Ing, L., Gille Levenson, M., & Macedo, C. (2026). Phrase-level segmentation on medieval corpora for aligning multilingual texts. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026). https://doi.org/10.63317/32HUZUUOKPFR
This repository, including the demo interface, alignment tables, corpus excerpts, and associated documentation, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Reuse requires appropriate citation of the relevant publications and resources listed in the Citation section.