Gerry Wiener – Tsadra Conferences https://conference.tsadra.org Buddhist Conferences Fri, 01 Jun 2018 05:34:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.11 Using Technology Skillfully: Resources for Translators https://conference.tsadra.org/session/using-technology-skillfully-resources-for-translators/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 06:00:14 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=14972 This special session will be of interest to translators looking to learn more about current resources available for Tibetan translation, including digital libraries, databases for canonical research, computer assisted translation tools, SmartCAT, Tibetan OCR, and other Tibetan text resources.

Resources described in the session are:

  1. Timeless Treasuries, a Tsadra Foundation Initiative;
  2. The Rinchen Terdzo Chenmo collection, a Tsadra Foundation project;
  3. The Damngak Rinpoche Dzo collection, a Tsadra Foundation project;
  4. Paul Hackett’s Columbia University Buddhist Canons Research Database;
  5. SmartCAT for Tibetan translators: ten minute demo from Dirk Schmidt of Esukhia;
  6. The Annotated Corpora of Classical Tibetan and
  7. A Part-of-Speech Tagged Corpus of Classical Tibetan, both from Nathan Hill of SOAS;
  8. Nitartha Digital Library from Lama Tenam and Gerry Wiener.
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