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Some well-known Corpora

• Bank of English (Cobuild) TitaniaCollins Dictionary

• Leeds Collection of

Internet Corpora Leeds collection of Internet corpora

Some parallel corpora

Building your own corpora

• Free software available: antconc – Link:

http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_inde x.html – Other software can be

found

• E.g. BootCaT for rough and ready web corpora[bnc] Designing and Creating the BNC

• The minimum size of a corpus depends on two main

factors:

--the kind of query that is anticipated from users

--the methodology they use to study the data

Coding and cleaning files

• Antconc will only read .txt files, so you need to

clean up pdfs and html files to that format

• This can take time

• Maher, Waller and Kerans (2008) recommend

converting from html for this reason

– For more accessible genres, html files are going to

be more common

More tips on cleaning files

• Remove reference lists

• Remove non-linguistic content

• Remove extra spaces

• Problems of anomalous characters

– .txt tends to flounder with diacritics

• Hyphen issues

• From Maher, Waller and Kerans 2008

• The

use of open-access corpra Allows you to create quick corpora of specialised

terms for specific jobs

• Major disadvantage is lack of control

• Major

advantage is rapidity

Research fully to ensure a translation doesn’t

exist:

– IATE (including looking on other languages)

– Field specific resources (e.g.

Glossary of Tax Terms)

– Refined Google searches

– Create ‘sample’ translations and search for these in

the TL.

• EU resources for translators:

– EU – DG Translation

• Interactive Terminology for Europe:

– IATE - The EU's multilingual term base

• French Law on the Internet - The Basics and Free Resources By

Emmanuel Barthe http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/french_law_free_resources.htm

Chinese law resources on the internet

Chinese Law Resources on the Internet

Features - A Guide to the Spanish Legal System

http://216.122.177.166/dpz/legloc/default.html

Bilingual law information system: e.g. Hong Kong

Department of Justice