Samuel Läubli

Towards mapping of alpine route descriptions

We describe a corpus of historic mountaineering accounts and on-going work on geocoding toponyms and route descriptions in these accounts. Mountaineering accounts contain a wealth of geographic information but its extraction for purposes of geographic information retrieval poses specific challenges, in particular the distinction between toponyms pertinent to route descriptions and those mentioned in descriptions of panoramas. We describe some preliminary considerations for natural language cues to distinguish between these two types of occurrences.

Statistical Modelling and Automatic Tagging of Human Translation Processes

Advanced translation workbenches with detailed logging and eye-tracking capabilities greatly facilitate the recording of key strokes, mouse activity, or eye movement of translators and post-editors. The large-scale analysis of the resulting data logs, however, is still an open problem. In this chapter, we present and evaluate a statistical method to segment raw keylogging and eye-tracking data into distinct Human Translation Processes (HTPs), i.e., phases of specific human translation behavior, such as orientation, revision, or pause. We evaluate the performance of this automatic method against manual annotation by human experts with a background in Translation Process Research.