Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

Measuring proximity between source and target texts: an exploratory study

Adriana S. Pagano, Giacomo P. Figueredo, Annabelle Lukin

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

    Abstract

    This paper reports the results of an ongoing exploratory study aimed at investigating source-target text relations as computed through statistical methods for a manually annotated representative text sample. The purpose was to compare results obtained from clustering texts based on paragraph, sentence, and word counts with those obtained from clustering-based variables built on theory-informed categories of functions realized in the grammar of each language system. The corpus used is made up of ten different translations of an English source text into Spanish and Portuguese. The results point to different patterns with a common group obtained on the basis of the two methods.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationRecent contributions to quantitative linguistics
    EditorsArjuna Tuzzi, Martina Benesová, Ján Macutek
    Place of PublicationBerlin
    PublisherDe Gruyter
    Chapter9
    Pages103-113
    Number of pages11
    ISBN (Electronic)9783110420296, 9783110420357
    ISBN (Print)9783110419870
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015

    Publication series

    NameQuantitative Linguistics
    Volume70
    ISSN (Print)1861-4302

    Keywords

    • cluster analysis
    • source-target text comparison
    • systemic functional theory
    • translational corpus

    Fingerprint

    Dive into the research topics of 'Measuring proximity between source and target texts: an exploratory study'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

    Cite this