Media of Langue is a dictionary/sculpture that depicts the map of meaning onto the boundary between languages.
Material:
Vast events of "this word was translated into that word"
Components:
- Words: Words in two or more languages is put
- Lines: Line connecting between translated two words
- Two forces:
Repulsion between all words in the same language
Attraction between translated words in different language
( Each force depends on the frequency in the corpus. )
Paper
Goki Muramoto, Atsuki Sato, and Takayoshi Koyama. "Media of Langue." arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.08609 (2023)
Call for Volunteers and Donations
We welcome support from researchers and engineers of various languages and donations for site management and engineering.
We hope that the countless incidents of “this word was translated to that word” occurring all over the world will be written down and reflected to the map, more naturally and carefully.
Credit
Concept, Direction, Design: Goki Muramoto
Technical Director: Tyler Inari
Engineering: Takayoshi Koyama, Atsuki Sato, Ryoma Maeda, Yuta Moroi, Daisuke Unno, Yohei Okamura, Atsuhiro Yamaguchi, Wang Hanlin
Research: Goki Muramoto, Atsuki Sato
Acknowledgements
The process of collecting the events of "this word was translated into that word" and refrecting them into the map includes in addition to the following, the translators who actually translated the sentences in the corpus, the NLP libraries that confront the characteristics of each language, the framework that constitutes the huge network on the Internet, and many other efforts included. We are grateful for all of them.
Corpora used in Media of Langue: ParaCrawl, JParaCrawl, kittajafr-v4.0.4-C.1
Alignment tools used in Media of Langue: Awesome Alignment
Engineering volunteer: the contibuters of the repository of LexicalTranslationCounter
Special thanks: Masahiko Inami, Kai Fukubayashi, Takeru Kobayashi, Karin Suwazono, Ryo Yoshida, Taiga Someya, Ryoya Nara, Hiroto Saito, Taka Yoshida, Izumi Ando, Yuzu Juliette Iida, Yudai Sonoda, Kentaro Ito, Adam Weitemier