01 - Ugarit: a tool for Translation Alignment on Ancient Languages

We will present on the Ugarit Translation Alignment editor and its applications. Ugarit is a web environment that facilitates the creation of manually aligned parallel corpora, and it is specifically designed for historical and low-resourced languages. The aligned corpora are published online and used for pedagogy and integration with reading interfaces. The resulting data are currently used in research, for the systematic comparison of translations, the study of textual transmission and cross-linguistic dynamics, and for the creation of dynamic lexica. Moreover, the aligned corpora in Ancient Greek have been used for the development of a Language Model for automatic alignment with modern translations. A short presentation will be propedeutic to a demo, where participants will be able to test the tool and its functionalities.

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Presenters

Chiara Palladino, Furman University

  SCS-33