8 Translation Technologies

Sunoikisis Digital Classics, Fall 2020

Session 8. Translation Technologies

Thursday November 26, 16:00 UK = 17:00 CET

Convenors: Franziska Naether (Leipzig), Chiara Palladino (Furman)

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Session outline

• Introduction: what is text alignment? Principles and theoretical aspects of text alignment
• Available tools for text alignment
• Live Demo of Ugarit with the Digital Rosetta Stone Project
• Other case studies for translation alignment
• Applications: automatic translation alignment, graph databases,
  dynamic lexicon
• Presentation of the exercise

Seminar readings

• Gregory Crane (2019), "Beyond Translation: Language Hacking and
  Philology." Harvard Data Science Review 1.2. Available:
  https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.282ad764
• Monica Berti, Julia Jushaninowa, Franziska Naether, Giuseppe G. A.
  Celano, Polina Yordanova: The Digital Rosetta Stone: textual alignment and linguistic annotation, Available: https://www.academia.edu/25184052/The_Digital_Rosetta_Stone_Textual_Alignment_and_Linguistic_Annotation

Further reading

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Exercise

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