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标题：Corpora, Serendipity & Advanced Search Techniques
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作者：Michael Wilkinson
期刊名称：Journal of Specialized Translation
印刷版ISSN：1740-357X
出版年度：2007
期号：07
页码：1-9
出版社：Jostrans
摘要：Exploring corpora with concordancers can help translators to improve the quality of their translations by, for example, providing them with information about collocates; by helping them to choose between terms; or by enabling them to confirm intuitive decisions. But corpora also allow unpredictable, incidental learning: the user may notice unfamiliar uses in a concordance and follow them up by exploratory browsing. The article discusses the potential of corpora to throw up previously unknown information that may be relevant to a translation assignment, and illustrates how advanced search strategies can increase the likelihood of “accidentally” finding relevant information.
关键词：translation quality; corpora; corpus analysis tool; concordancer; key-word-in-context; serendipity; incidental learning; advanced searching