Aligned Translations, Treebanking Part I (May 11)

Aligned Translations, Treebanking Part I

May 11, 2016: 17h00-18h15 CEST

Neven Jovanović (University of Zagreb) and Anise D'Orange Ferreira (UNESP Araraquara)

With Petra Šoštarić, Mario Benedik, Dunja Ševerdija (University of Zagreb)

Session Plan

• Introduction: what is alignment, why should we care, how do we do it?
• Demonstration: we do different kinds of aligning and comment on the process.
• Conclusion: discuss!
• And you try it out too!

Materials

• Slides: on Github, on croala.ffzg.unizg.hr
• Live Broadcast
• A collection of links on Andreas Divus, a Renaissance translator of Homer into Latin
• A collection of links on parallel texts in Greek and Latin

Homework (Optional)

Choose a sentence, align it in Perseids, submit to Zagreb Homer 2015, get reviewed by us! (See also Instructions for Submitting to Perseids review boards.)

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