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Parallel bi-directional Czech-French and French-Czech corpus: definition, design, buildup and exploitation
Svášek, Martin ; Pognan, Patrice (advisor) ; Hajičová, Eva (referee) ; Leonard, Jean Leonard (referee)
According to the title, the thesis is composed of three parts. At the beginning the author introduces the concept of a parallel corpus defining it as a set of texts in different (at least two) languages, composed of original-translation couples. A terminology is provided to name different sets of texts in different languages. To have a general overview of this specific field, readers can be acquainted with the present existing parallel corpus. A definition of the project for creating a bidirectional French-Czech Czech-French parallel corpus is given in order to use it in linguistic research, notably research upon inflected expressions. French and Czech texts composing the parallel corpus Fratchque come from literature; the author also gives the explanation regarding the reason why other kinds of texts have not been taken into account. This corpus, conceived for PC-based researches, exists only in digital format. Having in mind the purpose of representing modern language, only texts after the year 1945 have been selected. New couples of French-Czech Czech-French texts could be easily added thanks to the files structure stored on a hard disk and managed by ParaConc. The corpus is not marked up explicitly by XML tags because the tagging is not necessary for the proper functioning of ParaConc - this step,...
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