Translation Alignment: Ancient Greek to Latin. Annotation Style Guide and Gold Standard

This dataset contains guidelines and a gold standard for the alignment of Ancient Greek texts with Latin scholarly translations. 

The gold standard consists of 100 fragments randomly selected from the Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG) (https://www.dfhg-project.org/), which were aligned manually by Chiara Palladino and David J. Wright using Ugarit (https://ugarit.ialigner.com/). The Annotation Style Guide was developed for this project. The resulting Inter-Annotator-Agreement (IAA) is 90.5%.  

The materials available in this repository can be used to perform and evaluate alignments of various texts in Ancient Greek, to create gold standards, and to train automated translation alignment models. 

The Guidelines can be further adapted to address similar language pairs including inflected languages, or can provide a structure for the alignment of other historical texts against modern translations. However, the guidelines are not project-specific: they were specifically intended for the scenario of machine translation. Different research questions, such as translation history or pedagogy, may need further tweaking of these guidelines. 

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