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In:Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies: New resources and applications
Edited by Irene Doval and M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 90] 2019
► pp. 183–195

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PEST

A parallel electronic corpus of state treaties

 | University of Tampere, Finland
 | University of Tampere
 | University of Tampere
Published online: 20 March 2019
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This chapter introduces the Parallel Electronic corpus of State Treaties (PEST). The current plan is to compile a parallel corpus, which will include treaties concluded between Russia and Finland, Finland and Sweden, and Sweden and Russia. In addition, there will be a subcorpus of international conventions in all three languages plus English, to be used as reference data. The chapter describes the structure of the subcorpora (number of documents, their chronological distribution and topics featured), and it also addresses the challenges of balancing such a corpus. In the future, this material can be used for studies ranging from lexicon and semantics to grammar, style, discourse, translation studies, and language for special purposes.
Article outline
  • 1.General
  • 2.PEST corpus
  • 3.The Russian–Finnish section: Can a parallel corpus be balanced?
  • 4.Other sections of the corpus
    • 4.1The Sweden–Finland section
    • 4.2The Russia–Sweden section
    • 4.3Multilateral international treaties
  • 5.Great expectations
  • Acknowledgement
  • Notes
  • References
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