Using monolingual corpora in the target language as a translation aid : the example of collocations from Arabic into English

Abstract EN

Faced with the ever-increasing specialization of knowledge, trainee translators have to cope with a wide range of general and specialized texts with varied terminological problems.

As terms and words do not come in isolation, they often tend to co-occur with other specific words to form semantic and linguistic nebulas; special attention should be paid to the formation of these linguistic entities.

The objective of this paper is to highlight the importance of monolingual corpora as a support system for the trainee translator in his quest to produce natural target texts.

We argue that trainee translators can substantially improve the quality of their translated works thanks to available monolingual corpora compiled in the target language.