Metodología para la traducción de términos compuestos mediante corpus

Melania Cabezas García

doi:10.17533/udea.mut.v14n2a08

Authors

Melania Cabezas García University of Granada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.mut.v14n2a08

Keywords:

comparable corpus, distributional semantics, multiword term, terminology, equivalent terms, specialized translation

Abstract

Multiword terms (MWTS) are one of the main stumbling blocks in specialized translation. Translators and terminologists must master a variety of techniques to find their interlinguistic equivalents, because they are not always well described or even included in most terminological resources. Parallel texts, which are very useful for terminology extraction and knowledge acquisition, are usually employed for these purposes. They can be compiled in the form of comparable corpora, which are collections of texts originally written in the source and target languages. To make the most of them, translators must master advanced corpus query techniques. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. This paper presents a corpus-based methodology that facilitates the identification of English equivalents of Spanish MWTS and provides terminologists and translators with manual corpus query techniques that simplify the translation of MWTS. A comparable corpus formed by original Spanish and English texts on wind power was analyzed for the purposes of the study. We proposed a translation methodology based on distributional semantics, which entailed the obtention and comparison of contextual elements of the concepts in the source and target languages. Our results showed that this technique facilitates the identification of MWT translation equivalents in corpus.

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Author Biography

Melania Cabezas García, University of Granada

Graduated in Translation and Interpreting from the Pablo de Olavide University and Master in Professional Translation from the University of Granada. She obtained a Doctorate in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Granada in 2019, for which she has received the Research Award for the Best Thesis of the Biennium (2019-2020) from the Iberian Association for Translation and Interpretation Studies. She belongs to the LexiCon research group, within which she investigates in the project FFI2017-89127-P, Terminological tools oriented towards the translation of environmental texts (TOTEM), funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain (2018-2020) . Her research areas are terminology, corpus linguistics and specialized translation. She has published articles in international journals on linguistics, terminology and specialized translation, and is a member of the scientific committee of international journals and congresses, such as LREC or the International Journal of Lexicography.

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