Introduction. Parallel corpora in focus: an account of current achievements and challenges / Irene Doval and M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto -- Part I. Parallel corpora: Background and processing Comparable parallel corpora: A critical review of current practices in corpus-based translation studies / Lidun Hareide -- Living with parallel corpora: The potentials and limitations of their use in translation research / Josep Marco -- Working with parallel corpora: Usefulness and usability / Rosa Rabadán -- Innovations in parallel corpus alignment and retrieval / Martin Volk -- Part II. Parallel corpora: Creation, annotation and access: InterCorp: A parallel corpus of 40 languages / Petr Cermák -- Corpus PaGeS: A multifunctional resource for language learning, translation and cross-linguistic research / Irene Doval, Santiago Fernández Lanza, Tomás Jiménez Juliá, Elsa Liste Lamas and Barbara Lübke -- Building EPTIC: A many-sided, multi-purpose corpus of EU parliament proceedings / Adriano Ferraresi and Silvia Bernardini -- Enriching parallel corpora with multimedia and lexical semantics: From the CLUVI Corpus to WordNet and SemCor / Xavier Gómez Guinovart -- Discourse annotation in the MULTINOT corpus: Issues and challenges / Julia Lavid López -- PEST: A parallel electronic corpus of state treaties / Mikhail Mikhailov, Miia Santalahti and Julia Souma -- Indexation and analysis of a parallel corpus using CQPweb: The COVALT PAR_ES Corpus (EN/FR/DE > ES) / Teresa Molés-Cases and Ulrike Oster -- P-ACTRES 2.0: A parallel corpus for cross-linguistic research / Hugo Sanjurjo-González and Marlén Izquierdo -- An overview of Basque corpora and the extraction of certain multi-word expressions from a translational corpus / Zuri e Sanz-Villar -- Part III. Parallel corpora: Tools and applications: Strategies for building high quality bilingual lexicons from comparable corpora / Pablo Gamallo -- Discovering bilingual collocations in parallel corpora: A first attempt at using distributional semantics / Marcos García González, Marcos García-Salido and Margarita Alonso-Ramos -- Normalization of shorthand forms in French text messages using word embedding and machine translation / Parijat Ghoshal and Xi Rao.
Summary:
This volume assesses the state of the art of parallel corpus research as a whole, reporting on advances in both recent developments of parallel corpora - with some particular references to comparable corpora, as well - and in ways of exploiting them for a variety of purposes. The first part of the book is devoted to new roles that parallel corpora can and should assume in translation studies and in contrastive linguistics, to the usefulness and usability of parallel corpora, and to advances in parallel corpus alignment, annotation and retrieval. There follows an up-to-date presentation of a number of parallel corpus projects currently being carried out in Europe, some of them multimodal, with certain chapters illustrating case studies developed on the basis of the corpora at hand. In most of these chapters, attention is paid to specific technical issues of corpus building. The third part of the book reflects on specific applications and on the creation of bilingual resources from parallel corpora. This volume will be welcomed by scholars, postgraduate and PhD students in the fields of contrastive linguistics, translation studies, lexicography, language teaching and learning, machine translation, and natural language processing.
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