The Postil Time Machine: Inner-European Knowledge Transfer as a Graph — the Lithuanian Lutheran Postils of the 16th Century

该项目的主要目的是基于语料库的文本遗传和历史语言学调查，调查立陶宛的旧路德教义及其拉丁文和德文(在圣经段落中还包括古希腊文和希伯来文)的翻译来源，并将其作为一种新型的数字版本呈现。这是一个历史语言学(波罗的海研究、印欧研究)与计算机科学(计算语言学、信息可视化、数字编辑)合作的跨学科项目。)。该项目由几项高度相关的任务组成。主要的语言学任务是：(1)确定立陶宛文本的设计原则和翻译策略，(2)确定定语的文本内和文本间的指称，以及(3)以语言深度注释的参考语料库的形式对其内容进行语言学-历史学解释。主要的计算机科学任务是：(1)利用机器翻译检测文本内和文本间的参考文献，并将其与已确定的原始文献进行比对，这将通过该项目加以推进，(2)以图表形式进行建模(使用TEI-RDFa开发一个相互关联的开放数据接口)，以及将这些结构以图形形式表示为交互式可视化，以及(3)实施一个平台，使研究成果可供检索、查阅和一般查阅。立陶宛路德教派的各种复杂的互文性的公开介绍在很大程度上反映了文化和历史背景，这往往很难为复杂的文本重建。作为一种新型的数字版本，在线环境使用户不仅可以研究并保持对文本本身的了解，还可以看到它的直接先例和其他参考资料。

The main aim of the project is a corpus-based text genetic and historical linguistic investigation of the Old Lithuanian Lutheran postils (pericopic sermons) and their Latin as well as German (in the case of the Bible passages also Old Greek and Hebrew) sources of translation, and presentation as a new type of digital edition. This is an interdisciplinary project in which historical linguistics (Baltic studies, Indo-European studies) cooperates with computer science (computational linguistics, information visualization, digital editing). ). The project consists of several highly interrelated tasks. The main philological tasks are: (1) identification of the design principles and translation strategies of the Lithuanian texts, (2) determining the intra- and intertextual references of the postils, and (3) the linguistic-historical interpretation of their contents in the form of a linguistically deeply annotated reference corpus. The main computer scientific tasks are: (1) the detection of intra- and intertextual references as well as the alignment with the so-identified originals using machine translation, which will be advanced through the project, (2) the modeling as a graph (and the development of a Linked Open Data interface using TEI-RDFa), as well as the graphical representation of these structures as an interactive visualization, and (3) the implementation of a platform to make the research results searchable, traversable and generally accessible. The publicly accessible presentation of the Lithuanian Lutheran postils in all their intertextual complexity largely reflects the cultural and historical context, often difficult to reconstruct for complex texts. As a new type of digital edition, the online environment enables the user to study and meanwhile keep in sight not only the text itself, but also its direct precedents and other points of reference.