Re: [Corpora-List] Constitution

From: Ken Litkowski (ken@clres.com)
Date: Mon May 16 2005 - 16:39:48 MET DST

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One of the lessons learnt is

TadPiotr wrote:

> Let me even generalize it a bit: the real problem in translation is with
> collocations, to which compounds belong. Dictionaries -- and databases -- of
> technical terms focus on lexicalized items, but not on the gray area of
> collocations. There are very few dictionaries of technical collocations. And
> that is one of the reasons why translations of technical texts are so
> "unnatural".

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