Electronic target-language specialised corpora in translator education : building and searching strategies

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The use of monolingual and bilingual electronic corpora in translation training has steadily increased over the last decade due to the advantages they entail in relation to other resources. Whether as a source of teaching materials or as a reference source in their own right, corpora have proved beneficial for the teaching of general and specialised direct and inverse translation. This article will focus on monolingual target-language specialised corpora, which are one of the types of corpora most widely used in translation training, along with parallel corpora and bilingual comparable corpora. Target-language specialised corpora are technically easy to compile and may be used with minimal processing, but pose a challenge in terms of the extraction of translation equivalents. A number of strategies for building and exploiting such corpora will be presented in the article.