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Machine Translation of 16th Century Letters from Latin to German

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2022
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Fischer, L., Scheurer, P., Schwitter, R., & Volk, M. (2022). Machine Translation of 16th Century Letters from Latin to German. 43–50. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/workshops/LT4HALA/pdf/2022.lt4hala2022-1.7.pdf

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This paper outlines our work in collecting training data for and developing a Latin–German Neural Machine Translation (NMT) system, for translating 16th century letters. While Latin–German is a low-resource language pair in terms of NMT, the domain of 16th century epistolary Latin is even more limited in this regard. Through our efforts in data collection and data generation, we are able to train a NMT model that provides good translations for short to medium sentences, and outperforms GoogleTranslate overall. We focus on the correspo

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Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA 2022)

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Marseille

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2022-06-25

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2022-06-25

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LREC

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43

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50

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English

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2022-07-06

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3 since deposited on 2022-07-06
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Fischer, L., Scheurer, P., Schwitter, R., & Volk, M. (2022). Machine Translation of 16th Century Letters from Latin to German. 43–50. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/workshops/LT4HALA/pdf/2022.lt4hala2022-1.7.pdf

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