Tufts University (Somerville, MA 02144-2401)
Gregory R. Crane (Project Director: January 2019 to present)
HAA-266462-19
Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
Digital Humanities
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[Grant products]
Totals (outright + matching):
$375,000 (approved)
$336,808 (awarded)
Grant period:
9/1/2019 – 8/31/2023
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Beyond Translation: New Possibilities for Reading in a Digital Age
An expansion of the widely-used Perseus Digital Library to integrate reading tools that are designed to facilitate the study of ancient texts and the ability to conduct searches for relevant words and phrases.
Our goal in this Level III project is to promote a fundamental change in how human beings view translations and the cultures of which their original source text is a product. To support this larger goal we integrate into the emerging new version of Perseus new reading tools that we have developed as separate applications over the past decade: (1) the ability to produce, automatically and manually, word and phrase level alignments between source texts and translations and to see these alignments while reading; (2) the ability to view the full morphological and syntactic analysis of each word in a text; (3) new forms of searching and browsing based on this new data (e.g., find all English words used to translate a word or to view all subject/verb, adjective/noun combinations); (4) both large scale work (alignment of 50 million words of English to Greek and Latin) as well as focused projects (e.g., a bilingual edition of Homer).
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