tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20155610.post1608479242958900835..comments2012-02-20T18:08:39.366+01:00Kevin Lossnernoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20155610.post-22038391672163803322012-02-20T17:45:07.863+01:002012-02-20T17:45:07.863+01:00Hi Kevin,<br /><br />Just thought I should mention that after I emailed the developer of tlCorpus about its inability to import PDFs, he actually added it. So tlCorpus (Windows only at the moment) now handles PDFS!Michael Beijerhttp://wordbook.nl/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20155610.post-45572919652260036542012-01-22T22:07:00.017+01:002012-01-22T22:07:00.017+01:00I just got my download link for the NIFTY material. I&#39;m curious!<br /><br />Incidentally, tlCorpus (http://tshwanedje.com/corpus/) is another corpus tool that can handle other formats: namely .doc, .docx and .html. No .pdf yet though! I only have the demo so far, but it seems that it also integrates well with tlTerm, which is my current main terminology tool. I have (temporarily?) given up on memoQ&#39;s built-in term base editor. My memoQ term bases became such a mess at some point that I decided to start all over again using tlTerm.<br /><br />Thanks for reminding me about LiveDocs, I had somehow completely forgotten about it!Michael Beijerhttp://wordbook.nl/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20155610.post-59302450988195885802012-01-20T01:25:21.712+01:002012-01-20T01:25:21.712+01:00You&#39;ll like the book, Michael. Very down-to-earth and accessible to mere mortals. I like it far more than the more &quot;sophisticated&quot; academic texts on my shelf. <br /><br />I&#39;ve started working through Juliette&#39;s material. The introduction video she did is a beautifully simple, clear explanation of basic principles and terms, and after watching it a few things that I thought I knew were understood much better. It also dawned on me after a bit that, while her approach is similar in many ways to what I have done for some time in source language research, she focuses on the target language. This has pretty powerful implications for someone working to master a new specialty. I had never really thought about this much before, because I mostly translate in domains I know very well because I have worked in them at some point as a researcher, etc. and I&#39;m not much bothered about searching for collocations and the like.<br /><br />Her research project involves legal translators. But her methodology applies very well to any specialist domain. And I do see value in it for my usual specialties (including two legal areas), because it is a more efficient way of performing certain kinds of language checks. I&#39;ve just been so focused on source language that this took a while to sink in.<br /><br />She does make one statement which isn&#39;t quite accurate, however. She comments that all tools currently available for corpus research work only with ordinary text files. The LiveDocs module of memoQ is an exception to this, but then it currently does not offer all the possibilities she demonstrates with the free tool AntConc. (It does other things, however.)Kevin Lossnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14727800526216764023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20155610.post-47488486338943613402012-01-19T23:40:10.275+01:002012-01-19T23:40:10.275+01:00Thanks for the tip on &#39;Working with Specialized Language: A practical guide to using corpora.&#39; I just ordered it from Amazon.<br /><br />MichaelMichael Beijerhttp://wordbook.nl/noreply@blogger.com