15.03.12
Police-Rescue Learner’s Dictionary
Epp Leibur, Külli Saluste
The beginning…January 2006
Online: http://dict.sisekaitse.ee/ • easily accessible to users• easy to update and modify
Corpus-based• corpora on police-related and rescue related topics• high frequency words and collocations identified with WordSmith4
Police-Rescue Learner’s Dictionary
Corpora
A corpus ‘can be described as a large collection of authentic texts that have been gathered in electronic form according to a specific set of criteria’ (Bowker and Pearson, 2002)
Corpora are used by:
•dictionary makers
•language teachers
Forensics
• Crime scene investigation
• DNA• Drugs• Fingerprints• Firearms• Forensic
anthropology
• Forensic Photography• Impression evidence• Pathology• Questioned documents• Trace evidence• Voice analysis
40 000 words
Word search
Police-Rescue Learner´s Dictionary
http://dict.sisekaitse.ee/
• Topic word search
• Simple word search
Fingerprint
2011 – a new phase in the development
• Internal reasons: right thing in the right way?
• External reasons
Planned activities:
• Revision and updating of topics to cover the field of internal security
• Cooperation and consultations with relevant boards and specialists on terminology and input
• Adding pronunciation and pictures with the possibility of tagging them
Demo
• Erialakeele sõnastiku arendus
Planned activities (2):
• Improvement of the search system (headwords + collocations)
• Adjustment of layout and format
• Focus on Estonian-English English-Estonian (3000 headwords in five years’ time)
Target audience:
• Students and specialists in EASS
• Specialists in Estonian Police and Border Guard Board and Estonian Rescue Board
• Translators, interpreters, etc
• In terms of language proficiency: from lower-intermediate to advanced
Questions?
Thank you!