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+language:
+- pt
+- grc
+base_model:
+- UGARIT/grc-alignment
+---
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+# Automatic word-level translation alignment of Ancient Greek and Portuguese parallel texts
+Translation alignment is the process of mapping translation equivalents between two texts in different languages. It can be performed on different granularity levels, form document, paragraph,
+sentence, and word/phrase levels.
+
+This model has been developed in the context of a project called **Linking Ancient Languages to Portuguese and Improving an Automatic Translation Alignment Model**
+(**Letras clássicas digitais: interligando línguas antigas ao português e aprimorando um modelo automático de alinhamento de tradução**). 
+
+**Funding agency**: FAPESP proc.#  2022/09490-0 <br>
+**Host Institution**: Faculty of Sciences and Letters, UNESP/Araraquara <br>
+Grant within the eScience Technological Innovation Programs - Research Program in eScience and Data Science /  Research Project - Regular<br>
+
+The main objective of the project was to develop an automatic translation aligner specifically for Ancient Greek 
+and Brazilian Portuguese.  This implied the following tasks: a) to generate manual alignments based on the gold 
+standard guidelines, Ancient Greek texts with parallel Brazilian Portuguese translations, creating pairs of 
+alignments aimed at b) the supervised training of automatic alignment models for the two languages, so that 
+they can be used to create automatic alignments. The motivation for having an automatic aligner for 
+Greek-Portuguese translations includes the possibility of generating a larger quantity of aligned texts for 
+reading Ancient Greek by Portuguese speakers, expanding the dynamic lexicon relating to the two languages, 
+as well as composing a digital corpus that can be used in other services.
+
+# Usage
+This [colab notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1jmMDvaTQcfUBL8YcOUAWv1A-NRuPEdf9?usp=sharing)  contains the necessary code to use the model.
+
+# Citation:
+```
+@inproceedings{youseftranslation,
+  title={Translation Alignment for Ancient Greek and Portuguese},
+  author={Yousef, Tariq and Ferreira, Anise D’Orange and dos Reis, Michel F and Palladino, Chiara}
+  journal={DH2024 Book of Abstracts},
+  year={2024}
+  pages={754--756},
+}