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Wed Jan 26 2005

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Message 1: Quantitative Approaches of Extracting Translation Resources from Parallel Corpora

 Date: 26-Jan-2005
From: Maria Zimina-Poirot <ziminamsh-paris.fr>
Subject: Quantitative Approaches of Extracting Translation Resources from Parallel Corpora


Institution: University Paris 3, Sorbonne nouvelle
Program: Doctorat en Sciences du langage
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2004

Author: Maria Zimina-Poirot

Dissertation Title: Quantitative Approaches of Extracting Translation Resources from Parallel Corpora

Dissertation URL: http://www.univ-paris3.fr/recherche/sites/edll/student/stmz/index.htm

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics
                            Translation

Dissertation Director:
André Salem

Dissertation Abstract:

This research work presents the results of a series of experiments devoted
to the development of new tools for intertextual textometric exploration of
translation corpora. Various methods of textual statistics have been
adapted for use in a multilingual context and put into practice for
parallel text processing, such as: repeated segments extraction,
characteristic elements computation, bi-textual topography, multiple
co-occurrences, factorial analysis, automatic classification, etc. Examples
of concrete applications illustrate the use of each of these methods in a
multilingual context. These examples are accompanied by sample translation
resources obtained on quantitative bases from the parallel French/English
corpus of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights. The suggested
approach opens up new horizons for automatic exploration of lexical
equivalences of translation corpora by a variety of users: translators,
foreign language teachers, terminologists, lexicographers, etc.



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