[Jenling] Guest talk Noam Ordan (Tue, 29 Oct, 6:15)

[Volker Gast]

Dear all,

Tomorrow (Tuesday, 29 Oct) we will have a guest who works at the 
interface of translation studies and computational linguistics.

Noam Ordan will talk about

'Translation as a form of language contact: a few computational experiments'

Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8
Room 601
6:15 pm

 From https://www.crunchbase.com/person/noam-ordan: "A computational 
linguist, Noam brings his expertise in natural language processing, 
semantics, and ML prosodic pre-processing. PHD from Bar-Ilan university, 
Noam worked with Universität des Saarlandes, Google, University of 
Haifa, Caesarea Rothschild Institute, researching language synthesis and 
translation and their application in the real world."

In an intriguing paper with E. Rabinovich and S. Winter the authors 
"show that traces of the source language remain in the translation 
product to the extent that it is possible to uncover the history of the 
source language by looking only at the translation. Specifically, we 
automatically reconstruct phylogenetic language trees from monolingual 
texts (translated from several source languages). The signal of the 
source language is so powerful that it is retained even after two phases 
of translation." (https://aclanthology.org/P17-1049/)

So there's a lot of interesting material in this talk, e.g. on 
translation, computational linguistics, language contact and language 
history.

Looking forward to seeing you,
Volker Gast


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