Meaningful Texts: The Extraction Of Semantic Information From Monolingual And Multilingual Corpora (Research in Corpus and Discourse)

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Contents......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
Part One: Monolingual Corpora......Page 14
1. Extracting concepts from dynamic legislative text collections......Page 16
2. A diachronic genre corpus: problems and findings from the DIALAYMED-Corpus (DIAchronic Multilingual Corpus of LAYmanoriented MEDical Texts)......Page 28
3. Word meaning in dictionaries, corpora and the speaker's mind......Page 42
4. Extracting meaning from text......Page 50
5. Translators at work: a case study of electronic tools used by translators in industry......Page 59
6. Extracting meteorological contexts from the newspaper corpus of Slovenian......Page 65
7. The Hungarian possibility suffix -hat/-het as a dictionary entry......Page 73
8. Dictionaries, corpora and word-formation......Page 81
9. Hidden culture: using the British National Corpus with language learners to investigate collocational behaviour, wordplay and culture-specific references......Page 94
10. Language as an economic factor: the importance of terminology......Page 107
11. Lemmatization and collocational analysis of Lithuanian nouns......Page 118
12. Challenging the native-speaker norm: a corpus-driven analysis of scientific usage......Page 126
Part Two: Multilingual Corpora......Page 140
13. Chinese-English translation database: extracting units of translation from parallel texts......Page 142
14. Abstract noun collocations: their nature in a parallel English-Czech corpus......Page 154
15. Parallel corpora and translation studies: old questions, new perspectives? Reporting that in Gepcolt: a case study......Page 165
16. Structural derivation and meaning extraction: a comparative study of French/Serbo-Croatian parallel texts......Page 177
17. Noun collocations from a multilingual perspective......Page 190
18. Studies of English-Latvian legal texts for Machine Translation......Page 199
19. The applicability of lemmatization in translation equivalents detection......Page 207
20. Cognates: free rides, false friends or stylistic devices? A corpus-based comparative study......Page 219
21. Trilingual corpus and its use for the teaching of reading comprehension in French......Page 233
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