'Irrefragable Answers' Using Comparable Corpora to Retrieve Translation Equivalents

In this paper we present a tool that uses comparable corpora to find appropriate translation equivalents for expressions that are considered by translators as difficult. For a phrase in the source language the tool identifies a range of possible expressions used in similar contexts in target languag...

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Published in:Language Resources and Evaluation 2009-03, Vol.43 (1), p.15-25
Main Authors: Sharoff, Serge, Babych, Bogdan, Hartley, Anthony
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computational Linguistics
Computer Science
Dictionaries
Equivalence
Human performance
Information systems
Language
Language and Literature
Language translation
Linguistics
Multilingualism
Perceptual learning
Semantics
Social Sciences
Standard deviation
Terminology
Textual collocation
Translation
Translations
Translators
Vocabularies & taxonomies
Words
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Summary:In this paper we present a tool that uses comparable corpora to find appropriate translation equivalents for expressions that are considered by translators as difficult. For a phrase in the source language the tool identifies a range of possible expressions used in similar contexts in target language corpora and presents them to the translator as a list of suggestions. In the paper we discuss the method and present results of human evaluation of the performance of the tool, which highlight its usefulness when dictionary solutions are lacking.
ISSN:1574-020X
1572-8412
1574-0218
DOI:10.1007/s10579-007-9046-4