This paper presents the development of the MeLLANGE corpus, a multilingual, aligned and annotated learner translator corpus (LTC). Unlike other learner corpora, MeLLANGE focuses on translation-related rather than language acquisition issues. The corpus thus contains students' performance into their mother tongues. Moreover, the intention is not to deliver a repository of students' errors, but rather give both trainers and trainees the opportunity to identify possible translation problems, as well as possible solutions, in a multilingual, corpus-based environment. The information attached to the corpus is divided into metadata regarding the source text, the translator and the translation situation, linguistic annotation, and error-annotation according to an error typology developed within the project. We show examples of how the MeLLANGE corpus can be exploited in teaching translation from a data-driven point of view, and from a data-based point of view.

Designing a Learner Translator Corpus for Training Purposes

CASTAGNOLI, SARA;
2011-01-01

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This paper presents the development of the MeLLANGE corpus, a multilingual, aligned and annotated learner translator corpus (LTC). Unlike other learner corpora, MeLLANGE focuses on translation-related rather than language acquisition issues. The corpus thus contains students' performance into their mother tongues. Moreover, the intention is not to deliver a repository of students' errors, but rather give both trainers and trainees the opportunity to identify possible translation problems, as well as possible solutions, in a multilingual, corpus-based environment. The information attached to the corpus is divided into metadata regarding the source text, the translator and the translation situation, linguistic annotation, and error-annotation according to an error typology developed within the project. We show examples of how the MeLLANGE corpus can be exploited in teaching translation from a data-driven point of view, and from a data-based point of view.
2011
978-3-0343-0054-4
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