Mapping the Words: Experimental visualizations of translation structures between Ancient Greek and Classical Arabic

The article deals with presentation forms of linguistic transformation processes from ancient Greek sources that were translated into classical Arabic from the 9th to 11th century AD. Various examples demonstrate how visualizations support the interpretation of corpus structures, lexical differentia...

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Main Author:	Torsten Roeder
Format:	Article
Language:	deu
Published:	Prof. Dr. Charlotte Schubert, Prof. Dr. Reinhold Scholl, Dr. Roxana Kath, Dr. Michaela Rücker 2017-11-01
Series:	Digital Classics Online
Subjects:	lexicography classical philology linguistics translation studies visualization
Online Access:	https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/dco/article/viewFile/35951/35969

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spelling	doaj-6cf3ad75da624a079a87e7847ee955792020-11-24T20:58:02ZdeuProf. Dr. Charlotte Schubert, Prof. Dr. Reinhold Scholl, Dr. Roxana Kath, Dr. Michaela RückerDigital Classics Online2364-79572364-79572017-11-013210312310.11588/dco.2017.0.35951Mapping the Words: Experimental visualizations of translation structures between Ancient Greek and Classical ArabicTorsten RoederThe article deals with presentation forms of linguistic transformation processes from ancient Greek sources that were translated into classical Arabic from the 9th to 11th century AD. Various examples demonstrate how visualizations support the interpretation of corpus structures, lexical differentiation, grammatical transformation and translation processes for single lexemes in the database project Glossarium Graeco-Arabicum. The database contains about 100,000 manually collected word pairs (still growing) from 76 texts and their translations. The article discusses how the project utilizes Sankey diagrams, tree maps, balloon charts, data grids and classical coordinate systems to point out specific aspects of the data. Visualizations not only help beginners to understand the corpus structure, they also help editors and specialized users to identify specific phenomena. A well-documented interface design is crucial both for usability and interpretative work.https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/dco/article/viewFile/35951/35969lexicographyclassical philologylinguisticstranslation studiesvisualization
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title	Mapping the Words: Experimental visualizations of translation structures between Ancient Greek and Classical Arabic
title_short	Mapping the Words: Experimental visualizations of translation structures between Ancient Greek and Classical Arabic
title_full	Mapping the Words: Experimental visualizations of translation structures between Ancient Greek and Classical Arabic
title_fullStr	Mapping the Words: Experimental visualizations of translation structures between Ancient Greek and Classical Arabic
title_full_unstemmed	Mapping the Words: Experimental visualizations of translation structures between Ancient Greek and Classical Arabic
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publisher	Prof. Dr. Charlotte Schubert, Prof. Dr. Reinhold Scholl, Dr. Roxana Kath, Dr. Michaela Rücker
series	Digital Classics Online
issn	2364-7957 2364-7957
publishDate	2017-11-01
description	The article deals with presentation forms of linguistic transformation processes from ancient Greek sources that were translated into classical Arabic from the 9th to 11th century AD. Various examples demonstrate how visualizations support the interpretation of corpus structures, lexical differentiation, grammatical transformation and translation processes for single lexemes in the database project Glossarium Graeco-Arabicum. The database contains about 100,000 manually collected word pairs (still growing) from 76 texts and their translations. The article discusses how the project utilizes Sankey diagrams, tree maps, balloon charts, data grids and classical coordinate systems to point out specific aspects of the data. Visualizations not only help beginners to understand the corpus structure, they also help editors and specialized users to identify specific phenomena. A well-documented interface design is crucial both for usability and interpretative work.
topic	lexicography classical philology linguistics translation studies visualization
url	https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/dco/article/viewFile/35951/35969
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Mapping the Words: Experimental visualizations of translation structures between Ancient Greek and Classical Arabic

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