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Some well-known Corpora
• Bank of English (Cobuild) TitaniaCollins Dictionary
• Leeds Collection of
Internet Corpora Leeds collection of Internet corpora
Some parallel corpora
Building your own corpora
• Free software available: antconc – Link:
http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_inde x.html – Other software can be
found
• E.g. BootCaT for rough and ready web corpora[bnc] Designing and Creating the BNC
• The minimum size of a corpus depends on two main
factors:
--the kind of query that is anticipated from users
--the methodology they use to study the data
Coding and cleaning files
• Antconc will only read .txt files, so you need to
clean up pdfs and html files to that format
• This can take time
• Maher, Waller and Kerans (2008) recommend
converting from html for this reason
– For more accessible genres, html files are going to
be more common
More tips on cleaning files
• Remove reference lists
• Remove non-linguistic content
• Remove extra spaces
• Problems of anomalous characters
– .txt tends to flounder with diacritics
• Hyphen issues
• From Maher, Waller and Kerans 2008
• The
use of open-access corpra Allows you to create quick corpora of specialised
terms for specific jobs
• Major disadvantage is lack of control
• Major
advantage is rapidity
Research fully to ensure a translation doesn’t
exist:
– IATE (including looking on other languages)
– Field specific resources (e.g.
Glossary of Tax Terms)
– Refined Google searches
– Create ‘sample’ translations and search for these in
the TL.
• EU resources for translators:
– EU – DG Translation
• Interactive Terminology for Europe:
– IATE - The EU's multilingual term base
• French Law on the Internet - The Basics and Free Resources By
Emmanuel Barthe http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/french_law_free_resources.htm
Chinese law resources on the internet
Chinese Law Resources on the Internet
Features - A Guide to the Spanish Legal System
http://216.122.177.166/dpz/legloc/default.html
Bilingual law information system: e.g. Hong Kong
Department of Justice