Olivier Kraif
List of John Benjamins publications in which Olivier Kraif is involved.
2025 Exploring the ‘language of intimacy’ in English and French romance novels by means of a corpus-driven approach International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 30:4, pp. 499–529 | Article
Subgenres of the novel have traditionally been defined first and foremost in terms of their content. Yet, in addition to revisiting themes, settings, plot patterns and character constellations, popular fiction — i.e. genres such as fantasy, science fiction and romance novels — in particular also… read more
2024 Chapter 2. Mining parallel corpora from Wikipedia Investigating Wikipedia: Linguistic corpus building, exploration and analysis, Poudat, Céline, Harald Lüngen and Laura Herzberg (eds.), pp. 45–74 | Chapter
In this article, we address the issue of Wikipedia as a multilingual resource to extract parallel corpora that are useful in multilingual terminology extraction or machine translation. While most previous work in this field assumes that Wikipedia is suitable for mining comparable corpora, we… read more
2010 Automating the compilation of specialized dictionaries: Use and analysis of term extraction and lexical alignment Terminology 16:1, pp. 77–106 | Article
In this paper, we study how single-word term extraction and bilingual lexical alignment can be used and combined to assist terminologists when they compile bilingual specialized dictionaries. Two specific tools — namely a term extractor called TermoStat and a sentence and lexical aligner called… read more
2003 From translational data to contrastive knowledge: Using bi-text for bilingual lexicons extraction International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 8:1, pp. 1–29 | Article
Textual aligning consists in pairing segments (e.g. sentences or phrases) that are translational equivalents across corpora of translations. An interesting application of textual aligning is the automatic extraction of bilingual lexicons. As it has been pointed out during previous evaluation… read more
2002 Translation alignment and lexical correspondences: A methodological reflection Lexis in Contrast: Corpus-based approaches, Altenberg, Bengt and Sylviane Granger (eds.), pp. 271–289 | Chapter