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Translation alignment

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Sunoikisis Digital Classics Spring/Summer 2018

Session 1. Translation alignment

Thursday January 25, 2018, 16h00-17h15 Greenwich Mean Time

Convenors: Maryam Foradi, Tariq Yousef (Leipzig), Saman Rezaie (Tehran), Gabriel Bodard (Institute of Classical Studies)

YouTube link: tba

Slides: tba

Description

  1. Translation: Definition, Theories, Semantics; translation of Hafez
  2. Computer aided translation: presenting software, translation memories and its application for translators
  3. Machine translation and word alignment
  4. Presenting Ugarit
  5. Presenting Perseids
  6. Presenting Hafez dynamic lexicon and exercise

Seminar readings

Other resources

Essay title

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Exercise

exercise 1
  • Take a passage of Greek or Latin (5-10 lines) and align it to the English (or other modern) translation. Think about the problems with alignment discussed in this session, including granularity, untranslated words and glosses, differences in grammar, and report on how useful this process was in analysing the nature, intent, and accuracy of the translation.
exercise 2 (optional)
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