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Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age: Recent advances and explorations
Edited by Julia Lavid-López, Carmen Maíz-Arévalo and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla
[Benjamins Translation Library 158] 2021
► pp. 125–146

Chapter 5
TAligner 3.0

A tool to create parallel and multilingual corpora

ORCID logo | University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
ORCID logo | University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

In 2010 the TRALIMA/ITZULIK research group began developing a tool to create parallel and multilingual corpora. This would serve (among other functions) to explain, describe, and predict translational behaviour in terms of translational norms and laws (Toury 2012). Instead of relying on already existing resources, it was decided to invest in the creation of a new tool. As a result, TAligner 3.0 enables users to create corpora simultaneously aligning any number of texts (as required by the research) as well as compile corpora consisting of different text types. Furthermore, unlike most tools the aligned corpora can be queried within the program. The aim of this paper is to present, firstly, TAligner 3.0 and secondly, two parallel corpora built using this tool.

Keywords: TAligner, parallel corpora, German-into-Basque translations, theatre translations
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Evolution of TAligner 3.0
    • 2.1TRACE Corpus Tagger/Aligner 1.0©
    • 2.2TRACEAligner 2.0
    • 2.3TAligner 3.0
  • 3.Building and querying corpora in TAligner 3.0
    • 3.1Building corpora
    • 3.2Querying corpora
  • 4.Corpora created using TAligner 3.0
    • 4.1Narrative corpora
    • 4.2Theatre corpora
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 8 December 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.158.05san
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