Contrastive Linguistics, Translation, and Parallel Corpora

Contrastive Linguistics and Corpora

Using sign language corpora as bilingual corpora for data mining: Contrastive linguistics and computer-assisted..

More and more sign languages nowadays are now documented by large scale digital corpora. But exploiting sign language (SL) corpus data remains subject to the time consuming and expensive manual task of annotating. In this paper, we present an ongoing research that aims at testing a new approach to better mine SL data. It relies on the methodology of corpus-based contrastive linguistics, exploit...

Contrastive Linguistics: Theories and Methods

Narrowly defined, contrastive linguistics can be regarded as a branch of comparative linguistics that is concerned with pairs of languages which are ‘socio-culturally linked’. Two languages can be said to be socio-culturally linked when (i) they are used by a considerable number of bior multilingual speakers, and/or (ii) a substantial amount of ‘linguistic output’ (text, oral discourse) is tran...

Lexical and Translation Equivalence in Parallel Corpora

In the present paper we intend to investigate to what extent use of parallel corpora can help to eliminate some of the difficulties noted with bilingual dictionaries. The particular issues addressed are the bidirectionality of translation equivalence, the coverage of multiword units, and the amount of implicit knowledge presupposed on the part of the user in interpreting the data. Three lexical...

Corpora for computational linguistics 1 Running head : CORPORA FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS Corpora for computational linguistics

Since the mid 90s corpora has become very important for computational linguistics. This paper offers a survey of how they are currently used in different fields of the discipline, with particular emphasis on anaphora and coreference resolution, automatic summarisation and term extraction. Their influence on other fields is also briefly discussed. Corpora for computational linguistics 3 Corpora ...