A Concordancer of Equivalent Words in English-Chinese/Chinese-English Parallel Corpora
Guohua Chen · Computer-assisted Foreign Language Education · 2006
The Concordancer of Equivalent Words in English-Chinese/Chinese-English Corpora is a bilingual concordancing programme designed for English-Chinese/ Chinese-English lexicography.It differs from common bilingual concordancers in that it calculates the probability of co-occurrence of a source-language word and its target-language candidate equivalents in two parallel corpora,builds an index file on the basis of calculation results and sorts the candidate equivalents in order of probability of co-occurrence so that equivalent words in parallel corpora can be conveniently retrieved.The concordancer provides English-Chinese/Chinese-English dictionary compilers with a quick and objective means of identifying target-language equivalents.