On 24 October 2017, the Research Group Osservatorio sull’Euroletto (UNINT) and the European Commission are holding a Translating Europe Workshop entitled “Eurolects: Language contact and variational dynamics across European legislative corpora“, in Rome, Italy. Continue reading
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Third book of interviews with terminologists
The third collection of interviews with prominent terminologists has just been published by the Terminology Coordination Unit at the European Parliament.
The book explores corpora, training, translation and terminology, termbase projects, lexicography, standards, and a lot more! Continue reading
DANTE – Database of Analysed Texts of English
DANTE stands for Database of Analysed Texts of English. “Its lexical entries
offer a thorough, systematic, and fine-grained description of the core vocabulary of English, derived entirely from corpus data.
A cuneiform corpus, interpretation and knowledge transfer
The Cuneiform Commentaries Project (CCP) at the University of Yale in the United States allows anyone, whether a scholar or the general public, to see how people in early history discussed texts and interpreted them.
Stop press – Linguee adds languages
Following my post last year about the translation search engine Linguee, its language combinations have been extended.
Here is an extract from their recent press release:
Terminology and networking event in Holten, Holland
Stridonium professional translators’ association (www.stridonium.com) is organizing a terminology and networking event for legal and financial translators (but others are welcome to attend) from 10 am to 4 pm on 17 June 2013 in Holten, Holland.
Corpus-based collocation dictionaries in 230 languages
I posted early last year about the fantastic resource offered by Projekt Deutscher Wortschatz at Leipzig University’s Department of Computer Science – the number of languages has now increased to 230!
What exactly is corpus linguistics?
This post, in my mini-series of posts entitled ‘What exactly is…”, will try to give an overview of Corpus Linguistics and hopefully pique your interest to find out more.
First of all, a definition: a corpus is a collection of texts, often used to study language. These days, corpora are generally held electronically – access is much faster and analysis can be more powerful.
135 Corpus-Based Monolingual Dictionaries
I love this resource, with fast and immediate results, made available by Leipzig University’s Department of Computer Science. At present 158 languages or sub-languages have been included. The texts making up the databases are general and not specific to law.
When you enter a word, you are presented with significant co-occurrences, as well as left and right neighbours of the word, with their frequencies, and two graphical presentations – a kind of spider’s web showing related words that can be clicked on and explored.
http://corpora.uni-leipzig.de/
Try it out and let me know what you think!
Multilingual semantic map on steroids
A few weeks ago, I told you about a dictionary on steroids (see here). Today’s post is about a multilingual semantic map and thesaurus on steroids! It’s called the Sketch Engine. At present it can be used in 42 languages.
The Sketch Engine is an awesome tool. It is extremely useful for everyone who manipulates words and needs ideas.
Here are just a few examples of how it can be used:
– To create brand names: The Most Powerful Naming Tool I’ve Ever Used
– To help translators looking for collocations (the words that ‘sound right’ together)
– To give inspiration to lawyers when wording their pleadings
– To help academics when writing papers or theses
– To help journalists and authors get around ‘writer’s block’
– For non-native speakers of a language to check which words are used together and how
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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