Chapter published in:
Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies: New resources and applications
Edited by Irene Doval and M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 90] 2019
► pp. 215–231

P-ACTRES 2.0

A parallel corpus for cross-linguistic research

| University of Huddersfield
| University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
This chapter describes an updated version of the ACTRES Parallel Corpus (P-ACTRES 2.0), an English-Spanish bidirectional corpus that contains over 4 million words. The composition of the corpus is recounted, regarding the number of words in each direction, and the types of texts included together with the linguistic variants that users will find in the corpus. Its composition is shaped by research purposes as well as availability issues. The computerization process is also explained, while commenting on the text processing, alignment and tagging. The chapter concludes with a brief demonstration of the usefulness and usability of P-ACTRES 2.0 in cross-linguistic research, be it contrastive linguistics or translation studies either independently or, most importantly, jointly.
Keywords: ACTRES, corpus analysis software, web interface, (parallel) corpus compilation
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Description of the corpus
    • 2.1Composition
    • 2.2Building of the corpus: Computational procedure
      • 2.2.1Technologies
      • 2.2.2Workflow
        • i.Compiling texts
        • ii.Formatting texts
        • iii.Aligning the textual pairs
        • iv.Tagging
        • v.Indexing
      • 2.2.3User interface
    • 2.3P-ACTRES 1.0 VS P-ACTRES 2.0
  • 3.Usefulness and usability in cross-linguistic research
  • 4.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 20 March 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.90.13san
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