15.03.12 Police-Rescue Learner’s Dictionary Epp Leibur, Külli Saluste

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!