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Using Parallel Corpora to Evaluate Translations of Ancient Greek Literary Texts. An Application of Text Alignment for Digital Philology Research

Palladino, Chiara ; Shamsian, Farnoosh ; Yousef, Tariq (2023)
Using Parallel Corpora to Evaluate Translations of Ancient Greek Literary Texts. An Application of Text Alignment for Digital Philology Research.
In: Journal of Computational Literary Studies, 2022, 1 (1)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00023261
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Item Type: Article
Type of entry: Secondary publication
Title: Using Parallel Corpora to Evaluate Translations of Ancient Greek Literary Texts. An Application of Text Alignment for Digital Philology Research
Language: English
Date: 2023
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Year of primary publication: 2022
Publisher: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Computational Literary Studies
Volume of the journal: 1
Issue Number: 1
Collation: 21 Seiten
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00023261
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Origin: Secondary publication from TUjournals
Abstract:

This paper presents a workflow to systematically compare translations of Ancient Greek into English and Persian through the analysis of parallel corpora aligned manually at word level. We extracted the translation pairs, measured word intersections, alignment types, and part of speech matches, in order to investigate quantitative indicators of closeness to the original and similarity across translations. The corpus includes passages from the Iliad and the Hippolytus by Euripides. In addition to direct translations, we have included some indirect translations of the Iliad in Persian, where French was used as a mediating language.

Uncontrolled Keywords: translation alignment, translation analysis, Philology, Critical Translation Studies, NLP, annotation
Status: Publisher's Version
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-232618
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Urspr. Konferenzveröffentlichung/Originally conference publication: 1st Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, 01.-02.06.2022, Darmstadt, Germany

Classification DDC: 800 Literature > 800 Literature, rhetoric and criticism
Divisions: 02 Department of History and Social Science > Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Digital Philology – Modern German Literary Studies
Date Deposited: 21 Feb 2023 10:34
Last Modified: 23 Feb 2023 08:57
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/23261
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