Parallel corpora encode extremely valuable linguistic knowledge about paired languages, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax. A professional translation of a text represents a series of linguistic decisions made by the translator in order to convey as faithfully as possible the meaning of the original text and to produce a “natural” text from the perspective of a native speaker of the target language. The “naturalness” of a translation implies not only the grammaticality of the translated text, but also style and cultural or social specificity.
['Dan Tufis', 'Ana Maria Barbu']
Revealing Translators' Knowledge: Statistical Methods in Constructing Practical Translation Lexicons for Language and Speech Processing