Diachronic Trends in Homeric Translations

• Our program compares French and Italian translations of Homer’s Odyssey, from the XVIth to the XXth century. Open data algorithms are still either too dependent on language specifications and databases or unreliable. We hope to overcome these aporias. The Greek text is first cut on anchor points (proper nouns), and so is its corresponding translation ; the corpus is then aligned with our algorithm and divided in fixed chunks. Each Greek chunk is given a fixed ID, allowing us to give its translations the corresponding IDs. Each translation is therefore aligned one to another according to their identification. The alignment of the source to the target is done in three steps (preprocessing, alignment and postprocessing). To align textual chunks we use three main systems: 1, an automatically generated bilingual dictionary of GreekFrench proper nouns ; 2, length and frequency measures ; 3, a dictionary of distributionally related terms .

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturstudier (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Literatures (hsv//eng)

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