Corpógrafo V4 - Tools for Researchers and Teachers using Comparable Corpora
Belinda Maia, Sérgio Matos · Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) · 2008
This paper describes the response by the NLP project Linguateca to the needs of researchers, teachers and students in the areas of terminology, translation, contrastive linguistics, and related areas, for user-friendly tools for building and using comparable corpora.It will present the latest developments of the Corpógrafo, a suite of freely available and fully integrated online tools that allow for individuals or small groups to do linguistic research, or simply study the implications of corpus and terminology research for translators.The new developments include considerable improvements to the previous corpus and terminology database tools, a parallel corpus aligner, an aligner of parallel segments in comparable corpora, the integration of the NooJ engine with dictionaries in English, French and Portuguese, and a lexical / phrasal database structure designed for both normal lexicography and for the storage and analysis of the multi-word expressions of interest to those researching genre, text or discourse analysis.The results of this research will, in turn, contribute to the enrichment of the Corpógrafo tools.