Edited by Gloria Corpas Pastor and Jean-Pierre Colson
Whether you wish to deliver on a promise, take a walk down memory lane or even on the wild side, phraseological units (also often referred to as phrasemes or multiword expressions) are present in most communicative situations and in all world’s languages. Phraseology, the study of phraseological… read more
Neural machine translation (NMT) has recently made significant progress in improving the quality of the texts it produces. New features of NMT include the fluidity of translations and the successful handling of multi-word units. In this paper we first report the results of an automated… read more
The notion of phraseology is now used across a wide range of linguistic disciplines but it is conspicuously absent from most studies in the area of Translation Studies (e.g. Delisle, 2003; Baker and Saldanha, 2011). The paradox is that many practical difficulties encountered by translators and… read more
Corpas Pastor, Gloria and Jean-Pierre Colson 2020 IntroductionComputational Phraseology, Corpas Pastor, Gloria and Jean-Pierre Colson (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
Cross-linguistic research on phraseology covers a wide range of challenging topics, from the simple comparison of idioms or metaphors in two languages, to the systematic contrastive study of all categories of set phrases across different languages. Current research demonstrates that phraseology in… read more
