LEX est un jeu avec un but développé dans l’optique d’explorer plus avant les éléments et principes de la conception de jeux tels qu’ils sont pratiqués dans l’industrie vidéoludique, pour les mettre au service de la conception de jeux sérieux. Le premier prototype repose sur un mode bac à sable pour faire appel à la créativité du joueur et renforcer l’immersion ludique.

Thanks to their rich morphology, Italian and Spanish allow pro-drop pronouns, i.e., non lexically-realized subject pronouns. Here we distinguish between two different types of null subjects: personal pro-drop and impersonal pro-drop. We evaluate the translation of these two categories into French, a non pro-drop language, using Its-2, a transfer-based system developed at our laboratory; and Moses, a statistical system. Three different corpora are used: two subsets of the Europarl corpus and a third corpus built using newspaper articles. Null subjects turn out to be quantitatively important in all three corpora, but their distribution varies depending on the language and the text genre though. From a MT perspective, translation results are determined by the type of pro-drop and the pair of languages involved. Impersonal pro-drop is harder to translate than personal pro-drop, especially for the translation from Italian into French, and a significant portion of incorrect translations consists of missing pronouns.