Title :

ROSETTA: Resources for Endangered languages through translated texts

Author(s) :

Jenn, Ronald [Auteur]
Centre d'Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères - ULR 4074 [CECILLE]
Fraisse, Amel [Auteur]
Groupe d'Études et de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Information et COmmunication - ULR 4073 [GERIICO ]
Zhang, Zheng [Auteur]
Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur [LIMSI]
Fisher Fishkin, Shelley [Auteur]
Stanford University

Conference title :

The Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) Seminar Series, Stanford University, USA

Conference organizers(s) :

The Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA)

City :

Stanford

Country :

Etats-Unis d'Amérique

Start date of the conference :

2019-04-09

Publication date :

2019

English keyword(s) :

Digital humanities
Transnational bibliographic data
multilingual bibliographic data

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sciences de l'information et de la communication

English abstract : [en]

Out of the world’s 6000+ languages only a small fraction currently enjoys the benefits of modern language technologies. Languages left behind are called endangered or technologically low-resourced (even though they may ...
Show more >Out of the world’s 6000+ languages only a small fraction currently enjoys the benefits of modern language technologies. Languages left behind are called endangered or technologically low-resourced (even though they may have millions of speakers). This collaborative and interdisciplinary digital humanities research project aims to help salvage those languages by combining computational linguistics, American Literature, and Translation Studies. Much as the Rosetta Stone helped decipher the demotic and hieroglyphic scripts thanks to the presence of the Greek translation, our project intends to preserve contemporary endangered languages and assist with their sur- vival through translation. Our project puts to use the extant translated versions of a single fictional text—Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—into a number of low-resourced languages spanning a period of nearly a century and a half. The project relies on the involvement of humans for data collection while natural language processing tools generate language resources (corpora, dictionaries, thesauri, lexicons) for those endangered languages.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Non

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Centre d'Études en Civilisations Langues et Lettres Étrangères (CECILLE) - ULR 4074

Source :

Harvested from HAL