To say almost the same thing? A study on cross-linguistic variation in ancient texts and their translations.
This article presents a study of several parallel corpora of historical languages and their translations. The aligned corpora are the result of a large crowdsourcing project, named Ugarit, aimed at supporting translation alignment for ancient and historical languages: the study of the resulting tran...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 1200 - 1214 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2023
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