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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. 1–20

Corpus resources and tools

Looking back and going ahead

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Article outline
  • 1.Corpus resources
  • 2.Corpus-related tools
    • 2.1Translation memory systems
    • 2.2Corpus management tools
  • 3.Impact on corpus-based translation and contrastive studies
  • 4.Organization of the volume and chapter overview
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 8 December 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.158.int
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