Under the immediate appearance of a simple prose, Orwell’s masterpiece Nineteen Eighty–Four is a philosophical understanding of dictatorship, which is still relevant nowadays as a source of reflections about power. Indeed, the book was regarded by the dissident intellectuals of the East as a “realistic and detailed analysis of the mechanisms of power”1, rather than as just a novel. The device t...

Lexical alignment is one of the most challenging tasks in processing and exploiting parallel texts. There are numerous applications that may benefit from an accurate multilingual lexical alignment of biand multi-language corpora. We describe in this paper a hypothesistesting approach to the problem of automatic extraction of translation equivalents from sentence-aligned and tagged parallel corp...

This article reports the results of a preliminary analysis of translation equivalents in four languages from different language families, extracted from an on-line parallel corpus of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four The goal of the study is to determine the degree to which translation equivalents for different meanings of a polysemous word in English are lexicalized differently across a var...

This paper addresses questions of friendship and political community by investigating a particular complex case, comradeship in the life of the soldier. Close attention to soldiers’ accounts of their own lives, successes and failures shows that the relationship of friendship to comradeship, and of both to the success of the soldier’s individual and communal life, is complex and tense. I focus o...

The EU concerted action TELRI has released a two-volume CD-ROM, which contains multilingual language resources, namely corpora, lexica, and tools for language engineering. This CD-ROM provides harmonised resources for unprecedented numbers and kinds of languages, mainly from non-EU countries, for which such resources still tend to be scarce. The first volume of the CD-ROM includes the aligned t...