Efficient Online Corpus Searching

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Description

Are you a good "googler"? Translators and other language professionals need to have quick fingers and know how to find the term or expression they are looking for online without wasting any time.

In this workshop, learn how to hone your google-fu and find the terms you need quickly and efficiently using the world's biggest language corpus: the World Wide Web.

This hands-on workshop will help you use the right keywords and boolean operators to quickly find a term or expression. We will also discuss how to get the most out of other online translation tools like concordancers, terminology databases and dictionaries and glossaries.

Open to

Everyone (however, examples will be focused on the work of translators, revisers and other language professionals working from French to English).

Prerequisite

Participants must have good knowledge of Windows and know how to use an Internet browser.

Language

This workshop is conducted in English; however, participants are welcome to use the official language of their choice.

Learning objectives

At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to

• Choose the best tool for finding appropriate terms and expressions
• Use the advanced search options of various search engines
• Analyze search results and select the most relevant ones

Method

• Presentations
• Discussions
• Demos
• Case studies

Duration

One half-day

Course fee

$200 (Free of charge for Translation Bureau employees)

Members of a recognized professional association with proof of current membership (photocopy of membership card) will receive a 20% discount.

Dates

Not available in 2015-2016

Number of participants

10-12

We reserve the right to cancel this activity unless at least eight participants are expected to attend.