Translation Studies and Corpus Linguistics: Introducing the Pannonia Corpus

Machine Translation - Corpus Linguistics

Due to the importance of communication between two or more people, companies, or even nations, the need for good translators has long been obvious around the world, and since humans are faulty, it is not surprising that many attempts to automate the process of translation have been made throughout history. This is called machine translation. Corpus linguistics, a branch of the machine translati...

The Per-Fide Corpus : A new Resource for Corpus-Based Terminology, Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies

The Per-Fide project is a joint collaboration between researchers at the Department of Informatics and the Institute of Arts and Humanities at the University of Minho, Portugal. The acronym Per-Fide stands for Portuguese (P) in parallel with 6 languages: English (E), Russian (R), French (F), Italian (I), German/Deutsch (D) and Spanish/ Español (E). First, we expound on the role of the Per-Fide ...

Lexicography and Corpus Linguistics

The corpus approach: a common way forward for Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies?

In this introductory chapter, Granger traces the development of Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies over the last decades to the present day, focusing on the role of the computer corpus in giving new impetus to each field and bringing them closer together. She discusses the different types of monolingual and multilingual corpora being used in CL and TS research, proposing at the sam...

Introducing the Enron Corpus

A large set of email messages, the Enron corpus, was made public during the legal investigation concerning the Enron corporation. This dataset, along with a thorough explanation of its origin, is available at http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/. This paper provides a brief introduction and analysis of the dataset. The raw Enron corpus contains 619,446 messages belonging to 158 users. We cleaned the...