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This chapter begins with an introduction to the types of corpora for translation studies, with a focus on the use of different kinds of corpora in translation studies. It then discusses ways to compile corpora for translation studies by addressing the following issues: (1) How is a corpus designed? (2) How are the texts for a corpus selected, annotated, and aligned? (3) What are the software tools used in the compilation of a corpus? Finally, the chapter gives an overview of the major corpora in use for translation studies.
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Hu, K. (2016). Compilation of Corpora for Translation Studies. In: Introducing Corpus-based Translation Studies. New Frontiers in Translation Studies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48218-6_2
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