Empty Links and Crossing Lines: Querying Multilayer Annotation and Alignment in Parallel Corpora
| Title | Empty Links and Crossing Lines: Querying Multilayer Annotation and Alignment in Parallel Corpora |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2011 |
| Authors | ulo, O. Č., Hansen-Schirra S., Maksymski K., & Neumann S. |
| Published in | In Translation: Computation |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Page(s) | 75-104 |
| Other Numbers | 3272 |
| Keywords | corpus query, multi-layer annotation and alignment, parallel corpora, translation properties, translation shifts, translation studies |
| Abstract | Translation shifts can be informative in various ways. Amongst other things, they can pointto typological differences between languages or be indicators of properties of translated textlike e.g. explicitation or normalisation. Detecting translation shifts in parallel corpora is thusa major task from the viewpoint of translation studies. This paper presents an analysis oftranslation shifts in a parallel corpus (English-German). It offers an operationalisation ofqueries which can exploit multi-layer annotation and alignment in order to detect variouskinds of translation shifts across category boundary lines and empty alignment links. Thepaper furthermore discusses the shifts and links them to certain translation properties. |
| Acknowledgment | This work was partially funded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) through a postdoctoral fellowship. |
| URL | http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/ai/emptylinks11.pdf |
| Bibliographic Notes | In Translation: Computation, Corpora, Cognition (TC3), Special Issue on Parallel Corpora: Annotation, Exploitation, Evaluation, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 75-104 |
| Abbreviated Authors | O. ?ulo, S. Hansen-Schirra, K. Maksymski, and S. Neumann |
| ICSI Research Group | AI |
| ICSI Publication Type | Article in journal or magazine |