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Abstract
Parallel corpora have long been awaited in simultaneous interpreting studies in order to validate existing theories and models. The present paper illustrates the development of the European Parliament Interpreting Corpus (EPIC), an open, parallel, multilingual (English, Italian and Spanish), POS-tagged corpus of European Parliament source speeches and simultaneously-interpreted target speeches. The aim of the project is to study recurrent lexical patterns and morphosyntactical structures across all the possible language combinations and directions, and verify empirically whether different strategies can be detected when interpreting from a Germanic language into a Romance one and vice-versa, or between two Romance languages. EPIC is freely available on-line for the research community to use and contribute to.
Keywords/Mots-Clés:
- directionality,
- parallel corpora,
- simultaneous interpreting,
- EPIC,
- electronic corpus
Résumé
Les corpus parallèles dans le domaine de la recherche sur l’interprétation simultanée étaient attendus depuis longtemps pour valider des théories et des modèles existants. La présente contribution a pour but de présenter EPIC (European Parliament Interpreting Corpus), un corpus ouvert, parallèle, multilingue (anglais, italien et espagnol) et avec étiquetage des parties du discours, composé de discours source prononcés au Parlement européen et de discours cible interprétés en simultanée. Le but de ce projet est d’examiner les modèles lexicaux et les structures morphosyntaxiques dans toutes les combinaisons linguistiques considérées et quelles que soient la langue de départ et d’arrivée, et de vérifier de manière empirique si des stratégies différentes peuvent être décelées lors d’une interprétation à partir d’une langue germanique vers une langue romane et viceversa, ou entre deux langues romanes. EPIC est librement accessible en ligne pour les chercheurs et est ouvert à leurs contributions.
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