Navigation auf uzh.ch
Navigation auf uzh.ch
Time & Location: every 2 weeks on Tuesdays from 10:15 am to 12:00 pm in room BIN-2-A.10.
Online participation via the MS Teams Team CL Colloquium is also possible.
Responsible: Anne Göhring
| 18.02.2025 | Martin Volk | |
| 04.03.2025 | Chiara Tschirner |
Pius Peter Hugo von Däniken |
| 18.03.2025 |
Hanxu Hu |
Yang Tian |
| 01.04.2025 | Sophia Conrad |
Ahmet Yavuz Uluslu |
| 15.04.2025 |
Ghassen Karray |
Kirill Semenov |
| 29.04.2025 |
Janis Goldzycher
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Teodora Vukovic's group
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| 13.05.2025 |
Deborah Noemie Jakobi |
Zifan Jiang |
| 27.05.2025 | Yingqiang Gao |
Lena Sophia Bolliger
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The project “Bullinger Digital” deals with the letter collection of Heinrich Bullinger: 12,000 letters in Latin and Early New High German from the 16th century. We will give an overview of the code-switching between these languages and present a novel visualisation for profiling the language mix between correspondence partners over time.
In this project we extensively experimented with GPT models, Gemini and Perplexity for Machine Translation of the letters into modern German and English. We found that these LLMs currently offer the best quality for machine translations across 500 years. In addition, these LLMs allow for interesting knowledge injections. When translation suggestions for single words or phrases are available (e.g. from footnotes in the edition or from external lexicons or name lists), we can add them to the prompt and thus improve the translation results.
LLMs also show impressive abilities for syntax analysis of Latin sentences. We used them to analyse triadic greeting sentences (e.g. a writer sending regards to the addressee’s collaborators) and to determine if the persons mentioned in these sentences are senders or receivers of the greetings.
In the talk we will present our experiments and results from these studies.
