Um corpus multilíngüe para ensino e tradução - o COMET: da construção à exploração

Authors

  • Stella E. O. Tagnin Universidade de São Paulo - Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9511.tradterm.2004.47050

Keywords:

Translation, teaching, research, phraseology, terminology, parallel corpus, comparable corpus.

Abstract

COMET – A Multilingual Corpus for Teaching and Translation, which is being built at the University of São Paulo, is aimed for linguistic research, especially studies in translation, terminology and language teaching. The COMET consists of three subcorpora: a Technical Corpus, a Learner Corpus and a Translation Corpus. The Technical Corpus favours mainly four areas in which a significant lack of terminological sources has been identified by professional translators: Commercial Law, Computing, Orthodontics and Environmental Sciences. This means that regular work is being carried on to enlarge these corpora systematically to reach 1 million words. In addition, all technical corpora produced by student research or otherwise at the University of São Paulo (USP) will eventually be hosted here. The Learner Corpus will be composed of written assignments by undergraduate and extracurricular students of English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. The Translation Corpus is subdivided into Literary and Sworn translations. The Literary corpus contains American and Canadian short stories and their respective translations into Portuguese, as well as Brazilian literature translated into foreign languages. The Sworn Translations Corpus will consist of sworn translations from and into Portuguese, but no original counterparts. This article reports on COMET’s construction and its research possibilities.

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Published

2004-12-18

Issue

Section

Translation and Corpora

How to Cite

Tagnin, S. E. O. (2004). Um corpus multilíngüe para ensino e tradução - o COMET: da construção à exploração. TradTerm, 10, 117-141. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9511.tradterm.2004.47050