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In:Corpus-based Translation of Private Legal Documents
Patrizia Giampieri
[Natural Language Processing 15] 2024
► pp. 10–28

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Chapter 1
Corpora

Published online: 5 June 2024
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https://doi.org/10.1075/nlp.15.c1
Article outline
  • 1.1Corpora and corpus-building
    • 1.1.1Concordancers
  • 1.2Types of corpora
    • 1.2.1Parallel and comparable corpora
    • 1.2.2Online corpora
    • 1.2.3Offline corpora
    • 1.2.4DIY corpora
      • 1.2.4.1Advantages and disadvantages of DIY corpora
  • 1.3Corpora for translator training and translation practice
    • 1.3.1Corpora as pedagogical tools in specialised translation
  • 1.4Corpus limitations
    • 1.4.1Representativeness
    • 1.4.2Corpus content
    • 1.4.3Contextualisation
    • 1.4.4Users’ lack of experience or knowledge
    • 1.4.5Terminological and multilingual databases as alternatives
  • 1.5The web as corpus
    • 1.5.1Disadvantages of the web as corpus
    • 1.5.2Advantages of the web as corpus
    • 1.5.3Advanced search techniques
    • 1.5.4Composing an offline corpus: Manual vs automatic search
      • 1.5.4.1Manual corpus compilation
      • 1.5.4.2Automatic or semi-automatic corpus compilation
  • Notes
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