Annotation Exploitation And Evaluation Of Parallel Corpora

Author : Stella Neumann,Oliver Čulo,Silvia Hansen-Schirra
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
Page : 160 pages
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Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013289749

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Annotation, Exploitation and Evaluation of Parallel Corpora by Stella Neumann,Oliver Čulo,Silvia Hansen-Schirra Pdf

Exchange between the translation studies and the computational linguistics communities has traditionally not been very intense. Among other things, this is reflected by the different views on parallel corpora. While computational linguistics does not always strictly pay attention to the translation direction (e.g. when translation rules are extracted from (sub)corpora which actually only consist of translations), translation studies are amongst other things concerned with exactly comparing source and target texts (e.g. to draw conclusions on interference and standardization effects). However, there has recently been more exchange between the two fields - especially when it comes to the annotation of parallel corpora. This special issue brings together the different research perspectives. Its contributions show - from both perspectives - how the communities have come to interact in recent years. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Silvia Hansen-Schirra , Stella Neumann , Oliver Čulo
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783946234852

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Annotation, exploitation and evaluation of parallel corpora: TC3 I by Silvia Hansen-Schirra , Stella Neumann , Oliver Čulo Pdf

Exchange between the translation studies and the computational linguistics communities has traditionally not been very intense. Among other things, this is reflected by the different views on parallel corpora. While computational linguistics does not always strictly pay attention to the translation direction (e.g. when translation rules are extracted from (sub)corpora which actually only consist of translations), translation studies are amongst other things concerned with exactly comparing source and target texts (e.g. to draw conclusions on interference and standardization effects). However, there has recently been more exchange between the two fields – especially when it comes to the annotation of parallel corpora. This special issue brings together the different research perspectives. Its contributions show – from both perspectives – how the communities have come to interact in recent years.

Author : Stella Neumann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1245384606

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Annotation, Exploitation and Evaluation of Parallel Corpora: TC3 I by Stella Neumann Pdf

Author : Irene Doval,M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262844

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Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies by Irene Doval,M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto Pdf

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.

Author : Vincent X. Wang,Lily Lim,Defeng Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811649189

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New Perspectives on Corpus Translation Studies by Vincent X. Wang,Lily Lim,Defeng Li Pdf

The book features recent attempts to construct corpora for specific purposes – e.g. multifactorial Dutch (parallel), Geasy Easy Language Corpus (intralingual), HK LegCo interpreting corpus – and showcases sophisticated and innovative corpus analysis methods. It proposes new approaches to address classical themes – i.e. translation pedagogy, translation norms and equivalence, principles of translation – and brings interdisciplinary perspectives – e.g. contrastive linguistics, cognition and metaphor studies – to cast new light. It is a timely reference for the researchers as well as postgraduate students who are interested in the applications of corpus technology to solving translation and interpreting problems.

Author : Silvia Hansen-Schirra,Stella Neumann,Erich Steiner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110260328

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Cross-Linguistic Corpora for the Study of Translations by Silvia Hansen-Schirra,Stella Neumann,Erich Steiner Pdf

The book specifies a corpus architecture, including annotation and querying techniques, and its implementation. The corpus architecture is developed for empirical studies of translations, and beyond those for the study of texts which are inter-lingually comparable, particularly texts of similar registers. The compiled corpus, CroCo, is a resource for research and is, with some copyright restrictions, accessible to other research projects. Most of the research was undertaken as part of a DFG-Project into linguistic properties of translations. Fundamentally, this research project was a corpus-based investigation into the language pair English-German. The long-term goal is a contribution to the study of translation as a contact variety, and beyond this to language comparison and language contact more generally with the language pair English - German as our object languages. This goal implies a thorough interest in possible specific properties of translations, and beyond this in an empirical translation theory. The methodology developed is not restricted to the traditional exclusively system-based comparison of earlier days, where real-text excerpts or constructed examples are used as mere illustrations of assumptions and claims, but instead implements an empirical research strategy involving structured data (the sub-corpora and their relationships to each other, annotated and aligned on various theoretically motivated levels of representation), the formation of hypotheses and their operationalizations, statistics on the data, critical examinations of their significance, and interpretation against the background of system-based comparisons and other independent sources of explanation for the phenomena observed. Further applications of the resource developed in computational linguistics are outlined and evaluated.

Author : Sylviane Granger,Marie-Aude Lefer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350143265

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Extending the Scope of Corpus-Based Translation Studies by Sylviane Granger,Marie-Aude Lefer Pdf

With the rapid growth of corpus-based translations studies (CBTS) over recent years, this book offers a timely overview of the field today. It features cutting-edge studies from leading experts in the area, focused on both professional and student translations, and covers the latest theoretical developments such as the constrained communication framework, with a strong focus on methodology, particularly mixed-method approaches, multivariate research designs and translation error annotation. The volume highlights the emerging interdisciplinary bridges between CBTS and other areas in linguistics and demonstrates the applications of these theories and methods to translator training. It also offers a forward-looking perspective by presenting some of the challenges CBTS currently faces and possible pathways for future research. Thanks to its combined theoretical, methodological and applied perspective and innovative approaches, Extending the Scope of Corpus-Based Translation Studies will appeal to both seasoned specialists and newcomers to the field.

Author : Gloria Corpas Pastor,Bart Defrancq
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249456

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Interpreting Technologies – Current and Future Trends by Gloria Corpas Pastor,Bart Defrancq Pdf

While interpreting long remained unaffected by the technological progress that transformed the translation industry, recent years have witnessed a paradigm shift, such that interpreters increasingly interact with technological tools, that the delivery of interpreting services becomes increasingly dependent on technologies, and, finally, that technologies start to emerge that might some day compete with interpreters. This volume brings together a series of contributions on interpreting technologies focusing on each of these aspects. Its goal is to inform and to empower interpreters, as well as to spark new reflections on the future of technology in the interpreting industry. With this volume, we want to encourage interpreters to participate in that reflection and to become partners of technology rather than its victims. The next generation of technologies will need a next generation of interpreters!

Author : Jean Véronis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401725354

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Parallel Text Processing by Jean Véronis Pdf

l This book evolved from the ARCADE evaluation exercise that started in 1995. The project's goal is to evaluate alignment systems for parallel texts, i. e. , texts accompanied by their translation. Thirteen teams from various places around the world have participated so far and for the first time, some ten to fifteen years after the first alignment techniques were designed, the community has been able to get a clear picture of the behaviour of alignment systems. Several chapters in this book describe the details of competing systems, and the last chapter is devoted to the description of the evaluation protocol and results. The remaining chapters were especially commissioned from researchers who have been major figures in the field in recent years, in an attempt to address a wide range of topics that describe the state of the art in parallel text processing and use. As I recalled in the introduction, the Rosetta stone won eternal fame as the prototype of parallel texts, but such texts are probably almost as old as the invention of writing. Nowadays, parallel texts are electronic, and they are be coming an increasingly important resource for building the natural language processing tools needed in the "multilingual information society" that is cur rently emerging at an incredible speed. Applications are numerous, and they are expanding every day: multilingual lexicography and terminology, machine and human translation, cross-language information retrieval, language learning, etc.

Author : Fabio Alves,Arnt Lykke Jakobsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351712453

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The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Cognition by Fabio Alves,Arnt Lykke Jakobsen Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Cognition provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of how translation and cognition relate to each other, discussing the most important issues in the fledgling sub-discipline of Cognitive Translation Studies (CTS), from foundational to applied aspects. With a strong focus on interdisciplinarity, the handbook surveys concepts and methods in neighbouring disciplines that are concerned with cognition and how they relate to translational activity from a cognitive perspective. Looking at different types of cognitive processes, this volume also ventures into emergent areas such as neuroscience, artificial intelligence, cognitive ergonomics and human–computer interaction. With an editors’ introduction and 30 chapters authored by leading scholars in the field of Cognitive Translation Studies, this handbook is the essential reference and resource for students and researchers of translation and cognition and will also be of interest to those working in bilingualism, second-language acquisition and related areas.

Author : Lore Vandevoorde,Joke Daems,Bart Defrancq
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429638466

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New Empirical Perspectives on Translation and Interpreting by Lore Vandevoorde,Joke Daems,Bart Defrancq Pdf

Drawing on work from both eminent and emerging scholars in translation and interpreting studies, this collection offers a critical reflection on current methodological practices in these fields toward strengthening the theoretical and empirical ties between them. Methodological and technological advances have pushed these respective areas of study forward in the last few decades, but advanced tools, such as eye tracking and keystroke logging, and insights from their use have often remained in isolation and not shared across disciplines. This volume explores empirical and theoretical challenges across these areas and the subsequent methodologies implemented to address them and how they might be mutually applied across translation and interpreting studies but also brought together toward a coherent empirical theory of translation and interpreting studies. Organized around three key themes—target-text orientedness, source-text orientedness, and translator/interpreter-orientedness—the book takes stock of both studies of translation and interpreting corpora and processes in an effort to answer such key questions, including: how do written translation and interpreting relate to each other? How do technological advances in these fields shape process and product? What would an empirical theory of translation and interpreting studies look like? Taken together, the collection showcases the possibilities of further dialogue around methodological practices in translation and interpreting studies and will be of interest to students and scholars in these fields.

Author : Iryna Kloster
Publisher : Frank & Timme GmbH
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783732907618

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Translation Competence and Language Contrast – A Multi-Method Study by Iryna Kloster Pdf

Experience in translation does not always correlate with the quality of the target text. Also, the evaluations of translation work vary considerably among evaluators. Why not shifting the focus of attention from the final translation to the underlying translation process when assessing translation competence? Iryna Kloster applies a multi-method approach to model the translation competence based on empirical parameters, such as gaze behavior, dictionary use, revisions as well as subjective evaluations of comprehension and translation difficulty. Eye tracking, keystroke logging, screen recording and retrospective interviews were applied to collect data in the experimental groups consisting of novice and semi-professional translators. As a consequence, the author suggests using language contrasts for researching translation competence. She draws conclusions based on hypotheses testing, provides justification by triangulating quantitative and qualitative data and discusses the results in the light of empirical translation studies as well.

Author : Adolfo M. García
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262356

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The Neurocognition of Translation and Interpreting by Adolfo M. García Pdf

This groundbreaking work offers a comprehensive account of brain-based research on translation and interpreting. First, the volume introduces the methodological and conceptual pillars of psychobiological approaches vis-à-vis those of other cognitive frameworks. Next, it systematizes neuropsychological, neuroscientific, and behavioral evidence on key topics, including the lateralization of networks subserving cross-linguistic processes; their relation with other linguistic mechanisms; the functional organization and temporal dynamics of the circuits engaged by different translation directions, processing levels, and source-language units; the system’s susceptibility to training-induced plasticity; and the outward correlates of its main operations. Lastly, the book discusses the field’s accomplishments, strengths, weaknesses, and requirements. Its authoritative yet picturesque, didactic style renders it accessible to researchers in cognitive translatology, bilingualism, and neurolinguistics, as well as teachers and practitioners in related areas. Succinctly, this piece establishes a much-needed platform for translation and interpreting studies to fruitfully interact with cognitive neuroscience.

Author : Abdelhadi Soudi,Ali Farghaly,Günter Neumann,Rabih Zbib
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273628

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Challenges for Arabic Machine Translation by Abdelhadi Soudi,Ali Farghaly,Günter Neumann,Rabih Zbib Pdf

This book is the first volume that focuses on the specific challenges of machine translation with Arabic either as source or target language. It nicely fills a gap in the literature by covering approaches that belong to the three major paradigms of machine translation: Example-based, statistical and knowledge-based. It provides broad but rigorous coverage of the methods for incorporating linguistic knowledge into empirical MT. The book brings together original and extended contributions from a group of distinguished researchers from both academia and industry. It is a welcome and much-needed repository of important aspects in Arabic Machine Translation such as morphological analysis and syntactic reordering, both central to reducing the distance between Arabic and other languages. Most of the proposed techniques are also applicable to machine translation of Semitic languages other than Arabic, as well as translation of other languages with a complex morphology.

Author : Rei Miyata,Masaru Yamada,Kyo Kageura
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000583472

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Metalanguages for Dissecting Translation Processes by Rei Miyata,Masaru Yamada,Kyo Kageura Pdf

This edited volume covers the development and application of metalanguages for concretely describing and communicating translation processes in practice. In a modern setting of project-based translation, it is crucial to bridge the gaps between various actors involved in the translation process, especially among clients, translation service providers (TSPs), translators, and technology developers. However, we have been confronted with the lack of common understanding among them about the notion and detailed mechanisms of translation. Against this backdrop, we are developing systematic, fine-grained metalanguages that are designed to describe and analyse translation processes in concrete terms. Underpinned by the rich accumulation of theoretical findings in translation studies and established standards of practical translation services, such as ISO 17100, our metalanguages extensively cover the core processes in translation projects, namely project management, source document analysis, translation, and revision. Gathering authors with diverse backgrounds and expertise, this book proffers the fruits of the contributors’ collaborative endeavour; it not only provides practicable metalanguages, but also reports on wide-ranging case studies on the application of metalanguages in practical and pedagogical scenarios. This book supplies concrete guidance for those who are involved in the translation practices and translation training/education. In addition to being of practical use, the metalanguages reflect explication of the translation process. As such, this book provides essential insights for researchers and students in the field of translation studies. The up-to-date versions of the metalanguages, related materials, and the corrigendum for the book content are available on our project website: https://tntc-project.github.io