Studying metaphors using a multilingual corpus

2003 ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Kay Wikberg
Keyword(s):  
Multilingual Corpus

The expectation marker of course in a cross-linguistic perspective

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen ◽  
Karin Aijmer
Keyword(s):  
English Learners ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Pragmatic Markers ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
Explanatory Account ◽  
Semantics And Pragmatics ◽  
Multilingual Corpus ◽  
Core Meaning

The study of of course presented in this article has an applied, a descriptive and a theoretical aim. Since of course proves to be very frequent in English, learners will need to know what meanings the item has and in what pragmatic contexts it is used. It has indeed been shown that some learners tend to use of course in contexts where it is felt by native speakers to be inappropriate. In order to explain such inappropriate uses we need detailed descriptions of the semantics and pragmatics of of course. From a theoretical point of view such multifunctional items raise the question of whether semantic polysemy or pragmatic polysemy is the best explanatory account. It is argued in this paper that empirical cross-linguistic work can contribute to providing answers to all three research questions. First, the study of correspondences and differences between languages with regard to the meanings and uses of pragmatic markers is a necessary step in the explanation of learner problems. Second, the bidirectional approach to equivalents, which involves going back and forth from sources to translations, enables us to show to what extent the equivalents have partially overlapping pragmatic functions. An in-depth comparison of the semantic fields in which the translation equivalents operate is the ultimate goal. Third, the translation method helps to see to what extent a core meaning account is justified. In this paper three languages are brought into the picture, viz. English, Swedish and Dutch. The cross-linguistic data have been gathered from three translation corpora, i.e. the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus, the Oslo Multilingual Corpus and the Namur Triptic Corpus.

Multilingual corpus construction based on printed and handwritten character separation

2015 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 4123-4139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuping Lin ◽  
Yonghong Song ◽  
Yingyu Li ◽  
Fang Wang ◽  
Kai He
Keyword(s):  
Corpus Construction ◽  
Handwritten Character ◽  
Multilingual Corpus

scholarly journals Exploring content selection strategies for Multilingual Multi-Document Summarization based on the Universal Network Language (UNL)

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matheus Rigobelo Chaud ◽  
Ariani Di Felippo
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Statistical Measure ◽  
Document Summarization ◽  
Content Selection ◽  
Selection Strategies ◽  
Multilingual Corpus ◽  
Universal Network ◽  
Network Language

Multilingual Multi-Document Summarization aims at ranking the sentences of a cluster with (at least) 2 news texts (1 in the user’s language and 1 in a foreign language), and select the top-ranked sentences for a summary in the user’s language. We explored three concept-based statistics and one superficial strategy for sentence ranking. We used a bilingual corpus (Brazilian Portuguese-English) encoded in UNL (Universal Network Language) with source and summary sentences aligned based on content overlap. Our experiment shows that “concept frequency normalized by the number of concepts in the sentence” is the measure that best ranks the sentences selected by humans. However, it does not outperform the superficial strategy based on the position of the sentences in the texts. This indicates that the most frequent concepts are not always contained in first sentences, usually selected by humans to build the summaries because they convey the main information of the collection.Keywords: content selection; concept; statistical measure; multilingual corpus; multi-document summarization.

scholarly journals Multilingual Legal Information Retrieval System for Mapping Recitals and Normative Provisions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohan Nanda ◽  
Llio Humphreys ◽  
Lorenzo Grossio ◽  
Adebayo Kolawole John
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Retrieval System ◽  
Information Retrieval System ◽  
Text Similarity ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Eu Legislation ◽  
Multilingual Corpus ◽  
Eu Directives ◽  
Develop State

This paper presents a multilingual legal information retrieval system for mapping recitals to articles in European Union (EU) directives and normative provisions in national legislation. Such a system could be useful for purposive interpretation of norms. A previous work on mapping recitals and normative provisions was limited to EU legislation in English and only one lexical text similarity technique. In this paper, we develop state-of-the-art text similarity models to investigate the interplay between directive recitals, directive (sub-)articles and provisions of national implementing measures (NIMs) on a multilingual corpus (from Ireland, Italy and Luxembourg). Our results indicate that directive recitals do not have a direct influence on NIM provisions, but they sometimes contain additional information that is not present in the transposed directive sub-article, and can therefore facilitate purposive interpretation.

scholarly journals Multilingualism in Greater Poland court records (1386–1448): tagging discourse boundaries and code-switching

Corpora ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-290
Author(s):  
Matylda Włodarczyk ◽  
Joanna Kopaczyk ◽  
Michał Kozak
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Automatic Annotation ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Front End ◽  
Multilingual Corpus ◽  
Diplomatic Edition ◽  
Machine Readable ◽  
Flexible Coding

This paper introduces the Electronic Repository of Greater Poland Oaths, eROThA (1386–1446), a digitisation project of a diplomatic edition of mediaeval land court oaths recorded in Latin and Old Polish, resulting in a small, lightly tagged specialised bilingual corpus. We present the background, aims, design and methodology of the project. We also discuss the problems and limitations entrenched in turning a printed diplomatic edition into a machine-readable diplomatic edition equipped with a new interpretative layer that is sensitive to the switches between Latin and Old Polish. In addition to the automatic annotation of code-switched items on the basis of typographic characteristics of the printed edition, flexible coding of recurrent language and discourse boundary phenomena has been introduced manually to account for linguistically ambiguous or neutral forms. The project offers a fully multilingual corpus, as well as customised Polish-only and Latin-only datasets, and enables filtered metadata searches in the online front-end. Overall, the report presents a methodology for constructing multilingual corpora in the context of legal cultures in medieval Central Europe that may be extrapolated to datasets originating in other periods and regions.

The Fetish of Textuality: David Boilat’s Notebooks and the Making of a Literary Past

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Tobias Warner
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Textual Practices ◽  
Multilingual Corpus ◽  
And Performance

This chapter sketches the beginnings of literary modernity in Senegal through an analysis of a remarkable nineteenth-century collection of textual artifacts.This collection includes a multilingual corpus of poetry, calligraphy, folktales, and songs, as well as the textual components of several leather-bound protective amulets that for centuries Europeans called “fetishes.” The collection was assembled by David Boilat, a mixed-race priest, who pasted his findings into the pages of a notebook before sending them to anthropologists in Paris. Boilat’s notebook reframes the residues of many different textual practices and performance genres as texts that can be quotable, transportable, and readable in new ways. This subsumes collected artifacts into a new textual order, founded on the principle of readability. Nearly a century later, a young Léopold Senghor would incorporate some of Boilat’s collections into an early anthology of African writing in French, thereby consecrating them as literature.

Using the Europarl corpus for cross-linguistic research

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 23-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Cartoni ◽  
Sandrine Zufferey ◽  
Thomas Meyer
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Parallel Corpora ◽  
Comparable Corpora ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Multilingual Corpus

Europarl is a large multilingual corpus containing the minutes of the debates at the European Parliament. This article presents a method to extract different corpora from Europarl: monolingual and multilingual comparable corpora, as well as parallel corpora. Using state-of-the-art measures of homogeneity, we show that these corpora are very similar. In addition, we argue that they present many advantages for research in various fields of linguistics and translation studies, and we also discuss some of their limitations. We conclude by reviewing a number of previous studies that made use of these corpora, emphasizing in each case the possibilities offered by Europarl.

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