A corpus-based study of adjectival vs nominal modification in medical English

Maniez, François

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“…Examining the alignment matrices from N20, we can see that in many languages, amod, acl, nmod, and compound form more or less a complete graph of what they may be aligned with in different languages, which corresponds to observations made by linguists that languages have different patterns of nominal modification (Maniez, 2012;García, 2006).…”

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On the Relation between Syntactic Divergence and Zero-Shot Performance

Arviv¹,

Nikolaev²,

Karidi³

et al. 2021

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We explore the link between the extent to which syntactic relations are preserved in translation and the ease of correctly constructing a parse tree in a zero-shot setting. While previous work suggests such a relation, it tends to focus on the macro level and not on the level of individual edges-a gap we aim to address. As a test case, we take the transfer of Universal Dependencies (UD) parsing from English to a diverse set of languages and conduct two sets of experiments. In one, we analyze zero-shot performance based on the extent to which English source edges are preserved in translation. In another, we apply three linguistically motivated transformations to UD, creating more cross-lingually stable versions of it, and assess their zero-shot parsability. In order to compare parsing performance across different schemes, we perform extrinsic evaluation on the downstream task of cross-lingual relation extraction (RE) using a subset of a popular English RE benchmark translated to Russian and Korean. 1 In both sets of experiments, our results suggest a strong relation between cross-lingual stability and zero-shot parsing performance.

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Section: Normalization Of Nominal Modificationmentioning

confidence: 66%

On the Relation between Syntactic Divergence and Zero-Shot Performance

Arviv¹,

Nikolaev²,

Karidi³

et al. 2021

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“…ASp, 69 | 2016 internet; this is partly compensated by COCA's larger size (450 million words compared to the BNC's 100 million), though care will be needed in interpreting any corpus data (Maniez 2012).…”

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Integrating corpus tools and techniques in ESP courses

Boulton¹

2016

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L’un des buts de la recherche en anglais de spécialité, quelle que soit la définition que l’on en donne, est de fournir des analyses fines de différentes variétés de la langue. La linguistique de corpus offre de nombreuses possibilités à ce domaine, même si aucune description clés en main ne peut parvenir à répondre à tous les besoins ou à toutes les questions. Cet article suggère quelques propositions destinées à aider l’utilisateur final – apprenant ou enseignant – à mettre en œuvre des outils et des techniques de corpus afin d’observer, en fonction de ses besoins, des usages réels de la langue dans des contextes pertinents. L’approche est articulée avec des approches pédagogiques courantes (par exemple, l’étude exploratoire de documents authentiques) et de pratiques fréquentes (par exemple l’utilisation de moteurs de recherche sur Internet), ce qui permet à différent types d’utilisateurs de mieux intégrer ces outils et ces techniques dans leurs activités quotidiennes. Au-delà des recherches sur Internet, des corpus génériques en ligne peuvent être exploités à des fins spécifiques ; les utilisateurs qui ont des besoins pérennes très ciblés peuvent aller plus loin en construisant leur propre corpus. L’article fournit des exemples de ces divers usages, et conclut par une brève mise en perspective des résultats de la recherche dans ce domaine.

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“…Within the Medicine and Biology section of the French corpus, which was queried here, the total word count for theses alone is over 600,000. Another reason may 5 be that adjective phrases should also be taken into account, especially as they are good candidates for French translation equivalents for one or the other English constructions (Maniez, 2012) A quick comparison of the frequencies in table 3 with those of both constructions in the British National Corpus (henceforth, BNC) confirms that these high frequencies are a specific feature of scientific English. According to an n-gram search within William H. Fletcher's Phrases of English page (http://phrasesinenglish.org/ 6 ), there are about 16,460 '[Noun2][Noun1]' constructions, and about 1,330 'the [Noun1] of [Noun2]' constructions per million words in the BNC, i.e.…”

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“…This remains a pitfall for more advanced translation students, notably in specialized (medical) translation. Indeed, medical English generally follows the principle of economy, so that the use of concise, complex NPs prevails (Maniez, 2012). Yet in some contexts, the (the [noun] of [noun]) construction will be preferred, and there is no straightforward rule to help students decide which construction will yield an accurate translation.…”

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Integrating controlled corpus data in the classroom: a case-study of English NPs for French students in specialised translation

Almeida¹,

García²,

González-Ruiz³

Corpus-Based Studies on Language Varieties

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This paper looks at the alternation of two complex English noun phrases in scientific English, which poses a challenge to French students in the specialised translation classroom. Indeed, no such alternation is observed in French. Starting from a preliminary study of a first series of constructions, we seek confirmation for generalisations about the constructions' preferred context of occurrence in a new sample of highly frequent constructions. We then discuss how the results of those analyses can be integrated in the translation classroom, through a new online tool aimed at raising students' awareness of this contrastive problem and helping them choose one or the other construction according to a set of corpus-based clues.

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A corpus-based study of adjectival vs nominal modification in medical English

Cited by 7 publications

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On the Relation between Syntactic Divergence and Zero-Shot Performance

On the Relation between Syntactic Divergence and Zero-Shot Performance

Integrating corpus tools and techniques in ESP courses

Integrating controlled corpus data in the classroom: a case-study of English NPs for French students in specialised translation

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