Bootstrapping Corpora and Terminology Translation Methods
Explore the BootCaT method for creating domain-specific corpora, bilingual terminology, and multilingual capabilities. Understand how BootCaT leverages search engines and integrated web interfaces to facilitate the process. Dive into the world of comparable corpora and linguistic computing to enhance your language projects.
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Comparable Corpora BootCat (CCBC) Adam Kilgarriff, Avinesh PVS Lexical Computing Ltd
BootCaT Bootstrapping Corpora and Terms Translators Know the language Not domain experts Can interpret domain terms but can t guess them Instant domain corpus from the web Marco Baroni and Silvia Bernardini (2004)
BootCaT method Piggyback on a search engine Google, Yahoo, Bing Set of seed terms Repeat Take random 3 seeds Send to search engine Gather search hits pages Remove, duplicates, find terms Can iterate
WebBootCaT Web interface Improved cleaning, duplicate removal Integrated with corpus tool (Sketch Engine)
Going multilingual Google-translate English: volcanology volcanologist "volcanic eruption" seismographs Eyjafjallajokull geodic "deformation monitoring" tephra magma stratigraphic tephrochronology geochronological "volcanic ash" ablation rhyolitic French:vulcanologue volcanologie " ruption volcanique " sismographes Eyjafjallajokull "surveillance de la d formation" g odiques tephra magma t phrochronologie stratigraphique g ochronologiques "de cendres volcaniques" ablation rhyolitiques And do the same thing for French
By July 2011 All steps integrated Propose bilingual terminology
