[Corpora-List] Looking to gather a student translation corpus

[Stella]

Lisa,

We have a translation corpus English into Portuguese (Literary) and 
Portuguese into English (Technical Scientific - Cooking) which is available 
online: CorTrad (www.fflch.usp.br/dlm/comet) You click on  CorTrad on the 
left hand side. The Literary part has been translated by students (novice 
translators). The Cooking corpus has been translated by advanced students.

You get the original plus 3 versions of the translations. The first one is 
the students' original version, without any corrections.

Let me know if this helps.

Best

Stella
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lisa N. Michaud" <michaudl at merrimack.edu>
To: <corpora at uib.no>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:20 PM
Subject: [Corpora-List] Looking to gather a student translation corpus


My apologies for the cross-posting; I posted this on CALICO and it was
suggested that I reach out to this community as well.

I am working on adapting machine translation metrics for the purpose of
evaluating student-written translations from source text (both in terms
of generating an overall "score" for accuracy and identifying the
nature/source of errors).  My current application is for students
learning ancient languages, translating texts from the L2 into their L1,
but I can imagine other applications as well.

What I need for the next step in this project is a large collection of
translations written by students.  I know that translating text is
something done more with ancient/dead languages than modern languages,
and my local colleagues can't really help, but I was hoping someone in
this community might do exercises with his or her students that might
fit the bill.

Let me know if you are interested - and thanks in advance!

Lisa

-- 
Dr. Lisa N. Michaud, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts
http://www.merrimack.edu/lmichaud


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