none 10.1075/btl.158.06per John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 124844218 3774270 1419183 202507021834000059 10.1075 2025-07-02T12:37:32Z 2021-03-05T08:04:00Z 6 0929-7316 10.1075/btl https://benjamins.com/ catalog/btl Julia Lavid-López Universidad Complutense de Madrid https://ror.org/02p0gd045 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7367-0561 Carmen Maíz Arévalo Universidad Complutense de Madrid https://ror.org/02p0gd045 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0035-5296 Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla Universidad Complutense de Madrid https://ror.org/02p0gd045 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1494-6898 Recent advances and explorations Corpus-based contrastive and translation research are areas that keep evolving in the digital age, as the range of new corpus resources and tools expands, opening up to different approaches and application contexts. The current book contains a selection of papers which focus on corpora and translation research in the digital age, outlining some recent advances and explorations. After an introductory chapter which outlines language technologies applied to translation and interpreting with a view to identifying challenges and research opportunities, the first part of the book is devoted to current advances in the creation of new parallel corpora for under-researched areas, the development of tools to manage parallel corpora or as an alternative to parallel corpora, and new methodologies to improve existing translation memory systems. The contributions in the second part of the book address a number of cutting-edge linguistic issues in the area of contrastive discourse studies and translation analysis on the basis of comparable and parallel corpora in several languages such as English, German, Swedish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish, thus showcasing the richness of the linguistic diversity carried out in these recent investigations. Given the multiplicity of topics, methodologies and languages studied in the different chapters, the book will be of interest to a wide audience working in the fields of translation studies, contrastive linguistics and the automatic processing of language. 158 12 8 2021 11 8 2021 9789027209184 9789027259684 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/btl.158 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027259684 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027259684.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/btl.158/html María Pérez Blanco ULE https://ror.org/02tzt0b78 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2707-4347 Marlén Izquierdo UPV/EHU https://ror.org/000xsnr85 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9248-6452 Abstract This chapter describes the development and use of Promociona-TÉ, a tool for Spanish professionals who need to write herbal tea promotional texts (HTPTs) in English. The tool was developed from a comparable-corpus approach, given the absence of parallel corpora for under-researched domains ( Skadiņa et al. 2010 ) such as HTPTs. It is the result of applying the insights of contrastive linguistic research in the workplace towards overcoming problems of communication ( Rabadán 2019 ). Two analyses were conducted at the rhetorical and lexicogrammatical levels, providing the tool with a prototypical macrostructure of HTPTs together with a pool of drafting lines and a domain-specific bilingual glossary. We conclude by describing three advantages of this text generator over the use of translation, either human or machine. 12 8 2021 11 8 2021 147 173 10.1075/btl.158.06per https://benjamins.com/catalog/btl.158.06per https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/btl.158.06per/html Languages in Contrast. 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The Name of the Game is Comparable Corpora Mitkov 2018 10.1515/ling.2003.024 10.1075/resla.16026.per 10.1075/scl.90.04rab Intercultural Inspirations for Language Education. Spaces for Understanding Rabadán 46 2012 Designing Writing Materials for the Business English Language Class Procedimiento de evaluación de la calidad gramatical de las traducciones al español de textos en lengua inglesa (PETRA 1.0) Rabadán 2014 10.1075/scl.90.13san Creating a Dataset for Domain Bilingual Semantic Annotation based on the USAS Framework Sanjurjo-González 2019 NODALIDA’99, Proceedings from the 12th “Nordisk datalingvistikkdager, Trondheim, 9–10 December 1999 Santos 191 2000 An evaluation of the Translation Corpus Aligner, with Special Reference to the Language Pair English-Portuguese 10.1075/scl.90.14san Estudios de metodología de la lengua inglesa (IV) Sheerin 345 2008 From Word to Essay: Common Mistakes in Students’ Written Compositions Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora. 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