The article analyses the Slovenian linguistic situation from the perspective of interpreting and translation. The basis is an analysis of Slovenian language policy after the Second World War and the difference between language-political goals before and after the independence. In the end, it focuses on contemporary Slovenian society and the need for community interpreting, which is a consequence of an increasingly multicultural Slovenian society, establishing that language-political goals nowadays do not follow the real needs of today's Slovenian society.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 46514018This paper presents a series of experiments aimed at inducing and evaluating domainspecific bilingual lexica from comparable corpora. First, a small English-Slovene comparable corpus from health magazines was manually constructed and then used to compile a large comparable corpus on health-related topics from web corpora. Next, a bilingual lexicon for the domain was extracted from the corpus by comparing context vectors in the two languages. Evaluation of the results shows that a 2-way translation of context vectors significantly improves precision of the extracted translation equivalents. We also show that it is sufficient to increase the corpus for one language in order to obtain a higher recall, and that the increase of the number of new words is linear in the size of the corpus. Finally, we demonstrate that by lowering the frequency threshold for context vectors, the drop in precision is much slower than the increase of recall.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 46847586The book presents selected essays by Breda Pogorelec from the field of language stylistics, while theoretically also reaching into text linguistics. Some texts are published in Slovenian for the first time. In the preface, the editor discusses theoretical ground for language stylistic research based on a series of different styleme examples from classical and contemporary Slovenian prose.
C.07 Other editorial board
COBISS.SI-ID: 46027362