Sidra Effendi
Sidra Effendi is a Master's student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in the School of Information. Her areas of interest are Information Retrieval, NLP, and data visualization. She has prior experience working as a Software Engineer and had her own startup which gave her exposure into UX and market research. At the University of Michigan, she developed a search engine funded by Microsoft and an NLP based digital curation assistant for UN ReliefWeb .
Sessions
All languages are rich in prose and poetry. A lot of the literature is inaccessible because of a lack of understanding of that language. It is often diļ¬icult to appreciate a simple translation of a poem due to gaps in cultural knowledge. A poem translated in the style of an author familiar to the reader might help to both add cultural context for the reader and capture the essence of the poem itself.