Parallel corpus

Modern linguistics is constantly developing. New means and methods of learning languages and improving already existing skills appear. One of that means is parallel corpus ( pl. corpora).

In modern Linguistics such term as “text corpus” is used to refer to large collections of texts which represent a sample of a particular variety or use of language(s) that are presented in machine readable form.

Parallel corpus is a corpus of translated in different languages and processed in particular way texts, intended not for reading but for studying. A corpus is intended for grammarians, lexicographers, and other interested parties. Computer-procesable corpora allow linguists to adopt the principle of total accountability, retrieving all the occurrences of a particular word or structure for inspection or randomly selcted samples. Corpus analysis provides lexical information, morphosyntactic information, semantic information and pragmatic information.

Thus, we can see a few translations of targeted lexical units, as well as to consider a context. When doing translation, parallel corpus is a good help. The team of the translation bureau "Lingvo Master" have already tried this technique.