Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale-the computer-aided
analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook …

Electronic texts and text analysis tools have opened up a wealth of opportunities to higher
education and language service providers, but learning to use these resources continues to …

This paper surveys the strategies that the Contrastive, Typological, and Translation Mining
parallel corpus traditions rely on to deal with the issue of target language representativeness …

Corpus Linguistics for Translation and Contrastive Studies provides a clear and practical
introduction to using corpora in these fields. Giving special attention to parallel corpora …

In the mid-1990s we were both hired by Professor Stig Johansson to work as research
assistants on his contrastive corpus project entitled the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus …

The last couple of decades have seen a dramatic increase in corpus availability and a
steady growth in the number of supporters of the use of corpora in language teaching. Yet …

Parallel corpora can be defined as collections of aligned, translated texts of two or more
languages. They play a major role in translation and contrastive studies, and are also …

This chapter gives an overview of parallel corpora, ie corpora containing source texts in a
given language, aligned with their translations in another language. More specifically, it …

Driven by increasingly demanding and competitive market pressures, translation
professionals have turned to computer-assisted tools and other specialized electronic …

Explicitation is the process of rendering information which is only implicit in the source text
explicit in the target text, and is believed to be one of the universals of translation (Blum …