Introducing COMPARA The PortugueseEnglish Parallel Corpus Ana FrankenbergGarcia

Introducing COMPARA The Portuguese-English Parallel Corpus Ana Frankenberg-Garcia ISLA, Lisbon & Diana Santos SINTEF, Oslo

What is COMPARA? • A collection of texts • Originally written in Portuguese and English • Aligned with their respective English and Portuguese translations • Held in machine-readable/searchable form.

Main Features • Free WWW access • Made for people who are not necessarily corpus-literate as well as for experienced corpus users • Open-ended

Text Selection • All varieties of Portuguese and English • Date of publication not restricted • More than one TT per ST possible • Phase I: published fiction • Phase II: other genres

Copyright permissions • 60 text-pairs • Native authors and translators from Angola, Brazil, Mozambique, Portugal, South Africa, UK and USA. • 33 authors & 31 translators • Some interesting text combinations

Texts available in November 2000 Text pairs: 5 Tokens: 113, 190 Types: 19, 828 Portuguese Source texts: 4 Translations: 1 Tokens: 58, 568 Types: 10, 965 English 1 4 64, 608

Encoding aims and options • To provide accurate examples of how sentences have been translated from Portuguese into English and from English into Portuguese • To provide “co-textualised” examples of how words and phrases have been translated. • No attempt to preserve the texts in a format that allows exact future replication • Generally TEI-inspired, but not TEI-bound

From print to Web 1. Scanning & OCR 2. OCR revision; minus non-translational material; plus <title>, <foreign>, <emph>, <note resp=trans> 3. Manual paragraph alignment 4. Automatic sentence separation and tokenization (AC/DC project corpus tools) and automatic sentence alignment (IMS-CWB Easy-Align). 5. Manual alignment revision and markup. 6. Automatic alignment markup and final IMS-CWB encoding.

Alignment 1 source text sentence = 1 alignment unit ST: TT s preserved 1: 1 s split 1: 2 s joined 1: s deleted 1: 0 s added 1[+0] : 1[+1] s reordered A, B, C : A, C, B

Target Users • • Portuguese learners of English learners of Portuguese Students and teachers of translation Professional translators Bilingual dictionary makers Developers of machine translation software Anyone else interested in translation language and in the similarities and differences between Portuguese and English

Access www. portugues. mct. pt/COMPARA/Welcome. html