Bruno Cartoni

List of John Benjamins publications for which Bruno Cartoni plays a role.

Articles

Grisot, Cristina, Bruno Cartoni and Jacques Moeschler 2016 Conceptual and procedural information for verb tense disambiguation: The English Simple PastRelevance Theory: Recent developments, current challenges and future directions, Padilla Cruz, Manuel (ed.), pp. 103–144 | Article
This chapter discusses the necessary linguistic and pragmatic support for improving statistical machine translation systems with respect to verbal tenses. The English Simple Past can be translated into French through a series of tenses because of its conceptual, procedural and pragmatic meanings.… read more
Zufferey, Sandrine and Bruno Cartoni 2014 A multifactorial analysis of explicitation in translationTarget 26:3, pp. 361–384 | Article
The search for translation universals has been an important topic in translation studies over the past decades. In this paper, we focus on the notion of explicitation through a multifaceted study of causal connectives, integrating four different variables: the role of the source and the target… read more
Cartoni, Bruno, Sandrine Zufferey and Thomas Meyer 2013 Using the Europarl corpus for cross-linguistic researchInterference and normalization in genre-controlled multilingual corpora, Lefer, Marie-Aude and Svetlana Vogeleer (eds.), pp. 23–42 | Article
Europarl is a large multilingual corpus containing the minutes of the debates at the European Parliament. This article presents a method to extract different corpora from Europarl: monolingual and multilingual comparable corpora, as well as parallel corpora. Using state-of-the-art measures of… read more
Zufferey, Sandrine and Bruno Cartoni 2012 English and French causal connectives in contrastLanguages in Contrast 12:2, pp. 232–250 | Article
Discourse connectives are often said to be language specific, and therefore not easily paired with a translation equivalent in a target language. However, few studies have assessed the magnitude and the causes of these divergences. In this paper, we provide an overview of the similarities and… read more
This paper proposes a meaning-based contrastive methodology for the study of prefixation in English, French and Italian which is easily adaptable to other languages and word-formation processes. Our discussion centres on some of the central methodological and theoretical issues involved in… read more