This paper discusses register as a meaningful unit of contrastive linguistics and translation stu... more This paper discusses register as a meaningful unit of contrastive linguistics and translation studies. Drawing on systemic functional register theory, it categorizes different approaches to register-oriented cross-linguistic studies emphasizing either the comparison of contrasted features organized by register or that of registers using features as operationalizations. The approach is exemplified with the help of sample analyses of the English-German CroCo Corpus, a corpus containing originals and translations from eight different registers. In order to account for the systematic contrastive differences in frequencies of compared features, the magnitude of difference between register-specific and register-neutral frequencies is contrasted. The paper finally discusses complex register-specific combinations of indicators and shows how these help to identify translation properties.
Proceedings of The 9th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, 2015
ABSTRACT Translation process data contains non-canonical features such as incomplete word tokens,... more ABSTRACT Translation process data contains non-canonical features such as incomplete word tokens, non-sequential string modifications and syntactically deficient structures. While these features are often removed for the final translation product, they are pre-sent in the unfolding text (i.e. intermediate translation versions). This paper describes tools developed to semi-automatically process intermediate versions of translation data to facilitate quantitative analysis of linguistic means employed in translation strategies. We examine the data from a translation experiment with the help of these tools.
... functions (crossing lines). The process-oriented research analyses pauses inkey-logging to ... more ... functions (crossing lines). The process-oriented research analyses pauses inkey-logging to identify translation units as instances of foci of attention. The aligned segments are then mapped onto the cognitive units. Eye-tracking ...
The goal of the MULI (MUltiLingual Information structure) project is to empirically analyse infor... more The goal of the MULI (MUltiLingual Information structure) project is to empirically analyse information structure in German and English newspaper texts. In contrast to other projects in which information structure is annotated and investigated (e.g. in the Prague Dependency Treebank, which mirrors the basic information about the topic-focus articulation of the sentence), we do not annotate theory-biased categories like topic-focus or theme-rheme. Trying to be as theory-independent as possible, we annotate those features which are relevant to information structure and on the basis of which typical patterns, co-occurrences or correlations can be determined. We distinguish between three annotation levels: syntax, discourse and prosody. The data is based on the TIGER Corpus for German and the Penn Treebank for English, since the existing information on part-of-speech and syntactic structure can be re-used for our purposes. The actual annotation of an English example sequence illustrates our choice of categories on each level. Their combination offers the possibility to investigate how information structure is realised and can be interpreted.
This paper presents the workflow of building, enriching, storing and querying a 1 m word corpus o... more This paper presents the workflow of building, enriching, storing and querying a 1 m word corpus of English and German parallel texts. The corpus is built in order to investigate specific properties of translations as compared to the matching originals in the source language as well as comparable originals in the target language. Previous work investigating the differences between translations
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on NLP and XML Multi-Dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing - NLPXML '06, 2006
This paper presents the compilation of the CroCo Corpus, an English-German translation corpus. Co... more This paper presents the compilation of the CroCo Corpus, an English-German translation corpus. Corpus design, annotation and alignment are described in detail. In order to guarantee the searchability and exchangeability of the corpus, XML stand-off mark-up is used as representation format for the multi-layer annotation. On this basis it is shown how the corpus can be queried using XQuery. Furthermore, the generalisation of results in terms of linguistic and translational research questions is briefly discussed.
American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series, 2010
... shifts Towards an integration of product-and process-based translation research Fabio Alves,*... more ... shifts Towards an integration of product-and process-based translation research Fabio Alves,* Adriana Pagano,* Stella Neumann,** Erich ... languages can be categorized more precisely and exhaustively than traditional approaches have proposed eg, in Vinay and Darbelnet ...
This paper discusses register as a meaningful unit of contrastive linguistics and translation stu... more This paper discusses register as a meaningful unit of contrastive linguistics and translation studies. Drawing on systemic functional register theory, it categorizes different approaches to register-oriented cross-linguistic studies emphasizing either the comparison of contrasted features organized by register or that of registers using features as operationalizations. The approach is exemplified with the help of sample analyses of the English-German CroCo Corpus, a corpus containing originals and translations from eight different registers. In order to account for the systematic contrastive differences in frequencies of compared features, the magnitude of difference between register-specific and register-neutral frequencies is contrasted. The paper finally discusses complex register-specific combinations of indicators and shows how these help to identify translation properties.
Proceedings of The 9th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, 2015
ABSTRACT Translation process data contains non-canonical features such as incomplete word tokens,... more ABSTRACT Translation process data contains non-canonical features such as incomplete word tokens, non-sequential string modifications and syntactically deficient structures. While these features are often removed for the final translation product, they are pre-sent in the unfolding text (i.e. intermediate translation versions). This paper describes tools developed to semi-automatically process intermediate versions of translation data to facilitate quantitative analysis of linguistic means employed in translation strategies. We examine the data from a translation experiment with the help of these tools.
... functions (crossing lines). The process-oriented research analyses pauses inkey-logging to ... more ... functions (crossing lines). The process-oriented research analyses pauses inkey-logging to identify translation units as instances of foci of attention. The aligned segments are then mapped onto the cognitive units. Eye-tracking ...
The goal of the MULI (MUltiLingual Information structure) project is to empirically analyse infor... more The goal of the MULI (MUltiLingual Information structure) project is to empirically analyse information structure in German and English newspaper texts. In contrast to other projects in which information structure is annotated and investigated (e.g. in the Prague Dependency Treebank, which mirrors the basic information about the topic-focus articulation of the sentence), we do not annotate theory-biased categories like topic-focus or theme-rheme. Trying to be as theory-independent as possible, we annotate those features which are relevant to information structure and on the basis of which typical patterns, co-occurrences or correlations can be determined. We distinguish between three annotation levels: syntax, discourse and prosody. The data is based on the TIGER Corpus for German and the Penn Treebank for English, since the existing information on part-of-speech and syntactic structure can be re-used for our purposes. The actual annotation of an English example sequence illustrates our choice of categories on each level. Their combination offers the possibility to investigate how information structure is realised and can be interpreted.
This paper presents the workflow of building, enriching, storing and querying a 1 m word corpus o... more This paper presents the workflow of building, enriching, storing and querying a 1 m word corpus of English and German parallel texts. The corpus is built in order to investigate specific properties of translations as compared to the matching originals in the source language as well as comparable originals in the target language. Previous work investigating the differences between translations
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on NLP and XML Multi-Dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing - NLPXML '06, 2006
This paper presents the compilation of the CroCo Corpus, an English-German translation corpus. Co... more This paper presents the compilation of the CroCo Corpus, an English-German translation corpus. Corpus design, annotation and alignment are described in detail. In order to guarantee the searchability and exchangeability of the corpus, XML stand-off mark-up is used as representation format for the multi-layer annotation. On this basis it is shown how the corpus can be queried using XQuery. Furthermore, the generalisation of results in terms of linguistic and translational research questions is briefly discussed.
American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series, 2010
... shifts Towards an integration of product-and process-based translation research Fabio Alves,*... more ... shifts Towards an integration of product-and process-based translation research Fabio Alves,* Adriana Pagano,* Stella Neumann,** Erich ... languages can be categorized more precisely and exhaustively than traditional approaches have proposed eg, in Vinay and Darbelnet ...
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