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<p>Dear all,</p>
<p>Tomorrow (Tuesday, 29 Oct) we will have a guest who works at the
interface of translation studies and computational linguistics.</p>
<p>Noam Ordan will talk about</p>
<p>'Translation as a form of language contact: a few computational
experiments'</p>
<p>Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8<br>
Room 601<br>
6:15 pm<br>
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<p><span _ngcontent-ng-c588926870=""
class="description ng-star-inserted">From </span><span
_ngcontent-ng-c588926870="" class="description ng-star-inserted"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.crunchbase.com/person/noam-ordan">https://www.crunchbase.com/person/noam-ordan</a>:
</span><span _ngcontent-ng-c588926870=""
class="description ng-star-inserted">"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."<br>
</span></p>
<p>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." (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://aclanthology.org/P17-1049/">https://aclanthology.org/P17-1049/</a>) <br>
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<p>So there's a lot of interesting material in this talk, e.g. on
translation, computational linguistics, language contact and
language history.<br>
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<p>Looking forward to seeing you,<br>
Volker Gast<br>
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