A multilingual approach to technical manuscripts

Abstract

Shipbuilding treatises are technical manuscripts written in a variety of languages and spanning several centuries that describe the construction of ships. Given their technical content, understanding terms, concepts, and construction sequences is a challenging task. In this paper we describe a scalable approach and a multilingual web-based interface for enabling a group of scholars to edit a glossary of nautical terms in multiple languages.

Deepwater Archaeological Survey: An Interdisciplinary and Complex Process

“…More generally, we can observe that entire workshops are now dedicated to photogrammetric survey for underwater archaeology (for example the workshop organized by CIPA/ISPRS, entitled 'Underwater 3D recording and modeling' in Sorrento, Italy in April 2015), hundreds of articles are written on photogrammetric underwater survey for archaeology and substantial research is done on technical aspects, such as calibration (Shortis 2015;Telem andFilin 2010), stereo system (O'Byrne et al 2018;Shortis et al 2009) using structured light (Bruno et al 2011;Roman et al 2010) or more generally on underwater image processing (Ancuti et al 2017;Chen et al 2018;Hu et al 2018;Yang et al 2017a, b). In the last few years this discipline has attracted the attention of the industrial world and has been used to record and analyse complex objects of large dimensions (Menna et al 2015;Moisan et al 2015). The new challenge for tomorrow is producing accurate and detailed surveys from ROV and AUV in complex environments (Ozog et al 2015;Zapata-Ramírez et al 2016).…”