Construction and Application of Parallel Corpora: Issues and Comments
Libo Huang · Computer-assisted Foreign Language Education · 2012
The paper makes a comprehensive review on the construction and application of 8 major bilingual parallel corpora in the world.Some pitfalls in the corpus-based researches are revealed despite their rich experiences in technology and research method.The issues are manifested as follow: ① the size of the corpora is not big enough to be representative;② research topics are not as varied,especially in respects of language and translation research from a historical perspective;③ corpora for special purposes are less developed;④ researches in application and technology based on a parallel corpus still wait to be done.The questions above turned to be the topics to discuss,the authors think,and are conducive to researches on the construction of a large-scale and multipurpose corpus.