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In:Multiple Perspectives on Terminological Variation
Edited by Patrick Drouin, Aline Francœur, John Humbley and Aurélie Picton
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 18] 2017
► pp. 83–108

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Chapter 4
Towards a resource of semantically and contextually structured term variants and their translations

 | Centre for Special Language Studies and Communication, Brussels Institute for Applied Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Published online: 24 August 2017
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In this chapter, a translation resource is presented covering intra- and interlingual terminological variants extracted from a multilingual corpus of parallel texts (i.e. source texts and their translations). The resource is one of the outcomes of two comparative studies focusing on intra- and interlingual terminological variation in a trilingual parallel corpus and in the IATE terminology base. Several questions will be addressed in this chapter relating to (1) the method according to which this type of resource is developed, (2) the way the translation data in this resource are structured and (3) the way these data could be exploited and visualised in a translation tool.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Research context
  • 3.Developing the resource: A multiperspective approach
    • 3.1The semantic perspective
    • 3.2The textual perspective
    • 3.3The contrastive perspective
  • 4.Data model
    • 4.1The text level
    • 4.2The SL and TL levels
    • 4.3The TU level
  • 5.Visualising the translation data
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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