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This paper presents the background to an experimental project newly funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under the Digital Transformations Research Development Fund (grant for Feb-Sept 2012). The longer-term aim is to build an interactive public web interface which will facilitate explorations of variation across multiple translations of the ‘same’ source text, using visual information designs to aid user navigation, present the results of statistical analyses, support the collection and curation of user-generated content, narrow the gaps between languages, and make interlingual translation culturally visible in new ways. The term ‘translation array’ intends to suggest that multiple versions of a text can be used as a lens for exploring cultural histories and contemporary cultural dynamics. In short, we are trying to create an entirely new kind of participatory resource for exploring global culture – one which could only be conceived as a digital device.
The corpus for experimentation consists of about 40 German versions of Shakespeare’s Othello, dating from 1766 to 2006 (so far). In an initial phase of work in 2011, funded by the College of Arts and Humanities, the texts were digitized by Alison Ehrmann, a Swansea PhD in translation studies, and prototype visualisations were developed by Zhao Geng, a Swansea PhD in data visualisation,. The current AHRC-funded phase of work involves two co-investigators: Dr Robert S Laramee (Swansea U), a data visualisation specialist, and Dr Jonathan Hope (Strathclyde U), a specialist in literary linguistics, stylistics, and algorithmic reading. The bulk of the work will be done by a research assistant and a design consultant. Kevin Flanagan, our research assistant, is a translation software developer and Swansea PhD student in translation studies. Stephan Thiel is a freelance information designer based in Berlin.
By September 2012 we aim to have a small-scale working model of an array which enables readers not only to explore the variation across German translations (with machine- and user-generated back-translations), but also, and crucially, to explore the way the propensity of the source text to provoke variations varies from speech to speech (in terms of speech-specific statistics of target text lexis) and hence also between character parts, scenes, and sections of scenes. This will offer a new way of reading a Shakespearean text, through the prism of its translations, even without knowledge of languages other than English.
A fully operational translation array will work with any sets of multiply-retranslated texts. That will take some years of further funded work.
To access a podcast of this presentation, visit:
www.facebook.com/transcast
www.soundcloud.com/transcastTom Cheesman - 6 March 2012 - Towards a Translation Array: Digitally Explorin...
Tom Cheesman - 6 March 2012 - Towards a Translation Array: Digitally Explorin...Transcast: Making Translation and Interpreting Research Public
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This paper presents the background to an experimental project newly funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under the Digital Transformations Research Development Fund (grant for Feb-Sept 2012). The longer-term aim is to build an interactive public web interface which will facilitate explorations of variation across multiple translations of the ‘same’ source text, using visual information designs to aid user navigation, present the results of statistical analyses, support the collection and curation of user-generated content, narrow the gaps between languages, and make interlingual translation culturally visible in new ways. The term ‘translation array’ intends to suggest that multiple versions of a text can be used as a lens for exploring cultural histories and contemporary cultural dynamics. In short, we are trying to create an entirely new kind of participatory resource for exploring global culture – one which could only be conceived as a digital device.
The corpus for experimentation consists of about 40 German versions of Shakespeare’s Othello, dating from 1766 to 2006 (so far). In an initial phase of work in 2011, funded by the College of Arts and Humanities, the texts were digitized by Alison Ehrmann, a Swansea PhD in translation studies, and prototype visualisations were developed by Zhao Geng, a Swansea PhD in data visualisation,. The current AHRC-funded phase of work involves two co-investigators: Dr Robert S Laramee (Swansea U), a data visualisation specialist, and Dr Jonathan Hope (Strathclyde U), a specialist in literary linguistics, stylistics, and algorithmic reading. The bulk of the work will be done by a research assistant and a design consultant. Kevin Flanagan, our research assistant, is a translation software developer and Swansea PhD student in translation studies. Stephan Thiel is a freelance information designer based in Berlin.
By September 2012 we aim to have a small-scale working model of an array which enables readers not only to explore the variation across German translations (with machine- and user-generated back-translations), but also, and crucially, to explore the way the propensity of the source text to provoke variations varies from speech to speech (in terms of speech-specific statistics of target text lexis) and hence also between character parts, scenes, and sections of scenes. This will offer a new way of reading a Shakespearean text, through the prism of its translations, even without knowledge of languages other than English.
A fully operational translation array will work with any sets of multiply-retranslated texts. That will take some years of further funded work.
To access a podcast of this presentation, visit:
www.facebook.com/transcast
www.soundcloud.com/transcastTom Cheesman - 6 March 2012 - Towards a Translation Array: Digitally Explorin...
Tom Cheesman - 6 March 2012 - Towards a Translation Array: Digitally Explorin...Transcast: Making Translation and Interpreting Research Public
To access a podcast of this presentation, visit:
www.facebook.com/transcast
www.soundcloud.com/transcast
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