Translation-Driven Corpora

Federico Zanettin is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Perugia. He is the editor of Comics in Translation (2008), and co-editor of Corpora in Translator Education (2003). He is also co-editor of the online translation studies journal inTRAlinea and of the Translation Studies Abstracts Online database.

• 1. Introduction 1.1 Book outline 1.2 How to use the DVD2. Corpus linguistics and translation studies 2.1 A typology of translation-driven corpora 2.2 Corpus-based translation research 2.2.1 Regularities of translations 2.2.1.1 Simplification 2.2.1.2 Explicitation 2.2.1.3 Standardization 2.2.1.4 Translation of unique items 2.2.1.5 Untypical collocations 2.2.1.6 Interference 2.2.2 Regularities of translators 2.2.3 Regularities of languages 2.2.4 Learner translation corpora2.2.5 Interpreting and multimodal corpora 2.3 Corpus-based translation teaching and learning 2.4 Computer-assisted translation and computational linguistics 2.5 Tasks 2.5.1 Experimenting with the TEC 2.5.2 Experimenting with COMPARA 2.5.3 Experimenting with the LTC 2.6 Further reading3. Corpus design and acquisition 3.1 Corpus design 3.1.1 Size 3.1.2 Composition 3.1.3 Representativeness and comparability 3.1.4 Case study: the CEXI corpus 3.2 Corpus acquisition and copyright 3.3 Web corpora3.3.1 The Web as corpus3.3.2 The Web as a source of corpora3.3.2.1 General Web corpora3.3.2.2 Specialized Web corpora3.4 Conclusions 3.5 Tasks 3.5.1 Corpus building project outline 3.5.2 Manual creation of a DIY monolingual corpus 3.5.3 Automatic creation of a DIY bilingual comparable corpus3.6 Further reading4. Corpus encoding and annotation 4.1 Corpus-based translation studies and corpus annotation 4.2 Annotation for descriptive translation studies 4.2.1 Documentary information 4.2.2 Structural information 4.2.3 Text-linguistic information 4.3 Stand-off annotation 4.4 Conclusions 4.5 Tasks 4.5.1 Creating an XML TEI document 4.5.2 Adding a simple header 4.5.3 Marking-up text structure 4.5.4 Adding linguistic annotation 4.5.5 Indexing the corpus 4.5.6 Searching the corpus 4.6 Further reading5. Corpus tools and corpus analysis 5.1 Corpus creation and analysis tools5.1.1 Text acquisition 5.1.2 Annotation 5.1.3 Corpus management and query systems 5.1.4 Data retrieval and display 5.2 Analysis of corpus data 5.2.1 Wordlists and basic statistics 5.2.2 Concordances 5.2.3 Collocations, clusters and clouds 5.2.4 Colligations and word profiles 5.2.5 Semantic associations 5.3 Conclusions 5.4 Tasks 5.4.1 Wordlists 5.4.2 Lists of lemmas 5.4.3 Keywords 5.4.4 Concordances 5.4.5 Collocations and clusters 5.4.6 Word profiles 5.5 Further reading and software6. Creating multilingual corpora 6.1 Corpus acquisition 6.1.1 Comparable corpora 6.1.2 Parallel corpora 6.2 Alignment 6.2.1 Paragraphs and sentences 6.2.2 Approaches and tools 6.3 Case study: the OPUS corpus 6.4 Parallel corpora and translation memories 6.5 Alignment below sentence level 6.5.1 Alignment of comparable corpora 6.5.2 Word alignment 6.6 Tasks 6.6.1 Aligning a text pair 6.6.2 A parallel corpus of literary texts 6.6.3 Corpus creation checklist 6.7 Further reading and software7. Using multilingual corpora 7.1 Comparable and parallel corpora 7.2 Display and analysis of parallel corpora 7.3 Case study: The Rushdie English-Italian parallel corpus 7.4 Case study: the OPUS Word alignment database 7.5 Multilingual corpora in translator training and practice 7.6 Tasks 7.6.1 Searching a parallel corpus of literary texts 7.6.2 Exploring the Europarl multilingual corpus 7.7 Further reading8. Conclusions