Building a specialized comparable corpus: PARSA

Document Type : Research

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IranDoc). Tehran.Iran

2 Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IranDoc); Tehran. Iran

Abstract

Based on the language used in their constituent texts, corpora are categorized as monolingual, bilingual, or multilingual. A comparable corpus is a bilingual or multilingual corpus that includes similar texts in the same subject areas. In other words, a comparable corpus is a collection of documents in two different languages ​​that cover similar topics. Comparable corpora can be composed of general texts, providing various possibilities for discourse analysis, pragmatics, analysis of text genres, and sociolinguistics. Examples of such corpora could include collections of encyclopedia entries, or literary texts from a certain period of time. However, the most common types of comparable corpora, which attract many audiences are those related to specialized fields and containing a high density of vocabulary and technical terms. Such a corpus is called a specialized comparable corpus. In this study, a specialized comparable corpus was built from the Persian and English abstracts of theses and dissertations registered in IranDoc. The corpus is named PARSA.

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ZABANPAZHUHI (Journal of Language Research)
Volume 16, Issue 52 - Serial Number 52
October 2024
Pages 219-246

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