Applying computer-assisted coreferential analysis to a study of terminological variation in multilingual parallel corpora
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Coreferential analysis involves identifying
linguistic items (usually both lexical and grammatical items) that denote
the same referent in a given text. To be able to study such coreferential items,
each item first needs to be indexed or annotated according to a referent's corresponding
identification code or label. Linguistic items that are identified as `coreferential'
can be represented in a coreferential chain, i.e. a list of coreferential items
extracted from the text in which the order of the items in the text is retained.
We will discuss some of the benefits of applying coreferential analysis to a study
of intra- and interlingual terminological variation in multilingual parallel corpora.
Intralingual terminological variation refers to the different ways in which specialised
knowledge can be expressed by means of terminological units (both single and multiword
units) in a collection of source texts. Interlingual variation pertains to the
different ways in which these source language terms are translated into the languages
of the target texts. In this contribution, I will focus on how the method of coreferential
analysis was used in a comparative study of (intra- and interlingual) terminological
variation in original texts (i.e. the source texts) and their translations (i.e.
the target texts). I will present a semi-automatic method to support the manual
identification of intralingual terminological variants based on coreferential analysis.
We will discuss how data resulting from coreferential analysis can be used to quantitatively
compare terminological variation in source and target texts. Finally, I will present
a new type of translation resource in which terminological variants in the source
language are represented as a network of coreferential links.
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