Ugarit

Available

• http://ugarit.ialigner.com/
• See also: Automatic Translation Alignment Tool (BETA version): http://ugarit-aligner.com/

Author

• Tariq Yousef

Description

Ugarit is a web-based tool for manual translation alignment of parallel texts, whose aim is to build a user interface to create training data in form of translation pairs to be used later for an automatic translation alignment system at word/phrase level. The tool now is widely used as reading environment for parallel texts and a language learning tool.

Recently, a new tool has been created in BETA, which automatically performs translation alignment for Ancient Greek and translations in modern languages.

References

• Yousef, T., Palladino, C., Shamsian, F., Ferreira, A., & Reis, M. (2022). An automatic model and Gold Standard for translation alignment of Ancient Greek. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (pp. 5894–5905). European Language Resources Association.
• Yousef, T., Palladino, C., Wright, D., & Berti, M. (2022). Automatic Translation Alignment for Ancient Greek and Latin. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (pp. 101–107). European Language Resources Association.
• Palladino, C., Shamsian, F.,& Yousef, T. (2021). Translation Alignment for Historical Language Learning: a Case Study. 1st Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies. https://doi.org/10.48694/jcls.100
• Yousef T., Palladino C., Shamsian F., & Foradi M. Translation Alignment with Ugarit. Information. 2022; 13(2):65. https://doi.org/10.3390/info13020065
• Palladino, C., Foradi, M.,& Yousef, T. (2021). Translation Alignment for Historical Language Learning: a Case Study. DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly, 15(3).
• Palladino, C. (2020). Reading Texts in Digital Environments: Applications of Translation Alignment for Classical Language Learning. Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, 18.
• Tariq Yousef. 2020. Ugarit, translation alignment visualization. OSF Preprints. Available: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/thsp5.

Presentations

• Monica Berti, Chiara Palladino, David Wright, Tariq Yousef. 2022. Translation Alignment for Ancient Greek and Latin. SunoikisisDC.
• • C. Palladino, F. Shamsian, M. Shukhosvili. 2021. Translation and Text Alignment. Sunoikisis Digital Classics Fall 2021.
• Chiara Palladino & Tariq Yousef (2021), "We want to learn all languages! Applications of translation alignment in digital environments." Digital Classics London Seminar. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Ms6yAMZss
• Farnoosh Shamsian. 2020. Summer 2020: Digital classics and learning Greek in Iran. Sunoikisis Digital Classics session and video, Summer 2020.

Reviews

• Sisi Xie. 2023. "Textual Alignment of Res Gestae: Translation in Historical Languages. Commenting on the Ugarit alignment tool." Stoa Review 2023-01-26. Available: https://blog.stoa.org/archives/4182