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Chapter 12. Building corpus-based writing aids from Spanish into English

The case of GEFEM

Abstract

The internationalization of the agri-food sector in Spain has led to an exponential increase in writing and translation services from Spanish to English. In this socio-economic context, the methodology used to develop GEFEM is described. GEFEM is a corpus-based tool that assists translators and technical writers in producing dried meat product cards in English. The output offered to users is based on quantitative and qualitative corpora analysis of dried meat product cards. This corpus-based writing aid includes the prototypical rhetorical structure with the most frequent moves and steps, the main model lines, the lexicogrammatical patterns, and a bilingual terminological database.

Abstract

The internationalization of the agri-food sector in Spain has led to an exponential increase in writing and translation services from Spanish to English. In this socio-economic context, the methodology used to develop GEFEM is described. GEFEM is a corpus-based tool that assists translators and technical writers in producing dried meat product cards in English. The output offered to users is based on quantitative and qualitative corpora analysis of dried meat product cards. This corpus-based writing aid includes the prototypical rhetorical structure with the most frequent moves and steps, the main model lines, the lexicogrammatical patterns, and a bilingual terminological database.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Cross-linguistic research and corpora 1
  4. Chapter 1. Light Verb Constructions as a testing ground for the Gravitational Pull Hypothesis 12
  5. Chapter 2. Light Verb Constructions in English-Spanish translation 34
  6. Chapter 3. Reporting direct speech in Spanish and German 51
  7. Chapter 4. “Ich bekomme es erklärt” 67
  8. Chapter 5. Exploring near-synonyms through translation corpora 91
  9. Chapter 6. run away! 108
  10. Chapter 7. Film dialogue synchronization and statistical dubbese 124
  11. Chapter 8. Opera audio description in the spoken-written language continuum 142
  12. Chapter 9. Using a multilingual parallel corpus for Journalistic Translation Research 157
  13. Chapter 10. Domain-adapting and evaluating machine translation for institutional German in South Tyrol 179
  14. Chapter 11. Word alignment in the Russian-Chinese parallel corpus 195
  15. Chapter 12. Building corpus-based writing aids from Spanish into English 216
  16. Index 235
Corpus Use in Cross-linguistic Research
This chapter is in the book Corpus Use in Cross-linguistic Research
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.113.12ort

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Cross-linguistic research and corpora 1
  4. Chapter 1. Light Verb Constructions as a testing ground for the Gravitational Pull Hypothesis 12
  5. Chapter 2. Light Verb Constructions in English-Spanish translation 34
  6. Chapter 3. Reporting direct speech in Spanish and German 51
  7. Chapter 4. “Ich bekomme es erklärt” 67
  8. Chapter 5. Exploring near-synonyms through translation corpora 91
  9. Chapter 6. run away! 108
  10. Chapter 7. Film dialogue synchronization and statistical dubbese 124
  11. Chapter 8. Opera audio description in the spoken-written language continuum 142
  12. Chapter 9. Using a multilingual parallel corpus for Journalistic Translation Research 157
  13. Chapter 10. Domain-adapting and evaluating machine translation for institutional German in South Tyrol 179
  14. Chapter 11. Word alignment in the Russian-Chinese parallel corpus 195
  15. Chapter 12. Building corpus-based writing aids from Spanish into English 216
  16. Index 235
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