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The Place of Comparable Corpora in Providing Terminological Reference Information to Online Translators: A Strategic Framework

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This paper examines the status of comparable corpora as potential terminological resources with special reference to the applicational framework of helping online translators. In the past 15 years, we have witnessed great advances in bilingual term extraction technologies based both on parallel and comparable corpora. The use of comparable corpora is widely held to be especially important, because not many parallel corpora are available in many language pairs. However, human language practitioners, including online translators, do not make much use of terminological resources constructed using automatic methods; there seems to be a gap between what can be provided through corpus-based automatic extraction methods and what translators actually require. Against this backdrop, this paper first clarifies online translators’ requirements for terminology resources. Based on this clarification, the paper examines what should be taken into account in the use of comparable corpora for bilingual term extraction if the resultant terminology resources are to be really used by translators. The discussion in this paper is deductive rather than empirical, based on the authors’ experience in talking with online translators in the course of developing the integrated translation-hosting and translation-aid site Minna no Hon’yaku (MNH: translation of/by/for all) since 2005 (the site has been open to the public since April 2009).

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This work is partly supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS) grant-in-aid (A) 21240021 “Developing an integrated translation-aid site which provides comprehensive reference sources for translators.” and the 2011 NII research cooperation project “Automatic construction of practically useful English–Japanese terminological lexica using Web information resources.”.

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Kageura, K., Abekawa, T. (2013). The Place of Comparable Corpora in Providing Terminological Reference Information to Online Translators: A Strategic Framework. In: Sharoff, S., Rapp, R., Zweigenbaum, P., Fung, P. (eds) Building and Using Comparable Corpora. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20128-8_15

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