Exploring Word Formation Trends in Written, Spoken, Translated and Interpreted European Parliament Data – A Case Study on Initialisms in English and German

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Exploring Word Formation Trends in Written, Spoken, Translated and Interpreted European Parliament Data – A Case Study on Initialisms in English and German

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This paper demonstrates the research potential of a unique European Parliament dataset for register studies, contrastive linguistics, translation and interpreting studies. The dataset consists of parallel data for several European languages, including written source texts and their translations as well as spoken source texts and the transcripts of their simultaneously interpreted versions. The paper presents a cross-linguistic, corpus-based case study on a word formation phenomenon in these European Parliament data that are enriched with various linguistic annotations and metadata as well as with information-theoretic surprisal scores. The paper specifically addresses the questions of how initialisms are used across languages and production modes in the English and German corpus sections of these European Parliament data and whether there is a correlation between the use of initialisms and the use of their corresponding multiword full forms in the analysed corpus sections. The correlation analysis particularly addresses the question of whether initialisms in the analysed discourse types function as synonymous alternatives used in alternation with their full forms or primarily as replacements increasing compactness and lexical economy, but not necessarily transparency. Additionally, the paper explores what insights might be gained from an analysis of information-theoretic surprisal values with regard to the informativity and possible processing difficulties of initialisms. The results show that English written originals and German translations are the corpus sections with the highest frequencies of initialisms. The majority of cross-language transfer situations lead to fewer initialisms in the target texts than in the source texts, which means that they are either entirely omitted or other means are used to replace them in mediated discourse, e.g. hypernyms as less specific terms or multiword terms as semantically more explicit variants. In the English data, there is a positive correlation between the frequency of initialisms and the frequency of the respective full forms. There is a similar correlation in the German data, apart from the interpreted data. Additionally, the results show that initialisms represent peaks of information with regard to their surprisal values within their segments. Particularly the German data show higher surprisal values of initialisms in mediated language than in non-mediated discourse types, which indicates that in German mediated discourse, initialisms tend to be used in less conventionalised textual contexts than in English. © 2024 ELRA Language Resource Association: CC BY-NC 4.0.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Exploring Word Formation Trends in Written, Spoken, Translated and Interpreted European Parliament Data – A Case Study on Initialisms in English and German

Popis výsledku anglicky

This paper demonstrates the research potential of a unique European Parliament dataset for register studies, contrastive linguistics, translation and interpreting studies. The dataset consists of parallel data for several European languages, including written source texts and their translations as well as spoken source texts and the transcripts of their simultaneously interpreted versions. The paper presents a cross-linguistic, corpus-based case study on a word formation phenomenon in these European Parliament data that are enriched with various linguistic annotations and metadata as well as with information-theoretic surprisal scores. The paper specifically addresses the questions of how initialisms are used across languages and production modes in the English and German corpus sections of these European Parliament data and whether there is a correlation between the use of initialisms and the use of their corresponding multiword full forms in the analysed corpus sections. The correlation analysis particularly addresses the question of whether initialisms in the analysed discourse types function as synonymous alternatives used in alternation with their full forms or primarily as replacements increasing compactness and lexical economy, but not necessarily transparency. Additionally, the paper explores what insights might be gained from an analysis of information-theoretic surprisal values with regard to the informativity and possible processing difficulties of initialisms. The results show that English written originals and German translations are the corpus sections with the highest frequencies of initialisms. The majority of cross-language transfer situations lead to fewer initialisms in the target texts than in the source texts, which means that they are either entirely omitted or other means are used to replace them in mediated discourse, e.g. hypernyms as less specific terms or multiword terms as semantically more explicit variants. In the English data, there is a positive correlation between the frequency of initialisms and the frequency of the respective full forms. There is a similar correlation in the German data, apart from the interpreted data. Additionally, the results show that initialisms represent peaks of information with regard to their surprisal values within their segments. Particularly the German data show higher surprisal values of initialisms in mediated language than in non-mediated discourse types, which indicates that in German mediated discourse, initialisms tend to be used in less conventionalised textual contexts than in English. © 2024 ELRA Language Resource Association: CC BY-NC 4.0.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

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Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

ParlaCLARIN Workshop Creat., Anal., Increasing Access. Parliam. Corpora LREC-COLING - Proc.

ISBN

978-249381424-1

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Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

57-65

Název nakladatele

European Language Resources Association (ELRA)

Místo vydání

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Místo konání akce

Torino, Italia

Datum konání akce

1. 1. 2025

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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