Living with parallel corpora
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Josep Marco
Abstract
Parallel corpora can be used in translation research in at least two ways: as the main source of data or as a supplement to data retrieved from a comparable corpus, enabling data triangulation. In the former scenario, they may throw light on contrastive aspects or on translator techniques and methods. In the latter they will tend to be searched to account for differences perceived between the two components of a comparable corpus. Two case studies will be put forward in order to illustrate these two uses of parallel corpora. Both draw on the English-Catalan subcorpus of COVALT (Valencian Corpus of Translated Literature). The first analyses the translation of meal names whereas the second focuses on the -ment adverb + adjective construction.
Abstract
Parallel corpora can be used in translation research in at least two ways: as the main source of data or as a supplement to data retrieved from a comparable corpus, enabling data triangulation. In the former scenario, they may throw light on contrastive aspects or on translator techniques and methods. In the latter they will tend to be searched to account for differences perceived between the two components of a comparable corpus. Two case studies will be put forward in order to illustrate these two uses of parallel corpora. Both draw on the English-Catalan subcorpus of COVALT (Valencian Corpus of Translated Literature). The first analyses the translation of meal names whereas the second focuses on the -ment adverb + adjective construction.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgments ix
- Parallel corpora in focus 1
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Part I. Parallel corpora
- Comparable parallel corpora 19
- Living with parallel corpora 39
- Working with parallel corpora 57
- Innovations in parallel corpus alignment and retrieval 79
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Part II. Parallel corpora
- InterCorp 93
- Corpus PaGeS 103
- Building EPTIC 123
- Enriching parallel corpora with multimedia and lexical semantics 141
- Discourse annotation in the MULTINOT corpus 159
- PEST 183
- Indexation and analysis of a parallel corpus using CQPweb 197
- P-ACTRES 2.0 215
- An overview of Basque corpora and the extraction of certain multi-word expressions from a translational corpus 233
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Part III. Parallel corpora
- Strategies for building high quality bilingual lexicons from comparable corpora 251
- Discovering bilingual collocations in parallel corpora 267
- Normalization of shorthand forms in French text messages using word embedding and machine translation 281
- Index 299
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgments ix
- Parallel corpora in focus 1
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Part I. Parallel corpora
- Comparable parallel corpora 19
- Living with parallel corpora 39
- Working with parallel corpora 57
- Innovations in parallel corpus alignment and retrieval 79
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Part II. Parallel corpora
- InterCorp 93
- Corpus PaGeS 103
- Building EPTIC 123
- Enriching parallel corpora with multimedia and lexical semantics 141
- Discourse annotation in the MULTINOT corpus 159
- PEST 183
- Indexation and analysis of a parallel corpus using CQPweb 197
- P-ACTRES 2.0 215
- An overview of Basque corpora and the extraction of certain multi-word expressions from a translational corpus 233
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Part III. Parallel corpora
- Strategies for building high quality bilingual lexicons from comparable corpora 251
- Discovering bilingual collocations in parallel corpora 267
- Normalization of shorthand forms in French text messages using word embedding and machine translation 281
- Index 299
