Semantics, contrastive linguistics 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...

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 ...

Teaching Contrastive Linguistics for MT

We discuss a framework for teaching contrastive translation-oriented linguistics to students of machine translation. The framework embodies a classification of crosslinguistic differences and a demonstration of how the neutralization of such differences in abstract representations can make transfer modules simpler. We illustrate by means of examples from a range of languages, and then discuss a...