Colocações especializadas em alemão e português na área de Cardiologia

Abstract

This study describes the methodology used in the identification of specialized phraseologies in German and Portuguese with aims at helping translators. To achieve this goal, we adopted Textual Terminology and Corpus Linguistics conceptions – among other areas – and offered a methodology of work. This paper focused on specialized collocations that are built by the combination of noun compounds and verbs or deverbatives. Using a corpus of Cardiology – in German and Portuguese – we developed a methodology that enables the identification of this type of combination in German as well as the localization of the corresponding equivalent in Portuguese. During our research, we tested statistical methods using calculations such as mutual information and T-score. We also tested contrastive methods based on inter- and intralinguistic contrasts of contexts. The contrastive method presented more satisfactory results. From the corpus wordlist, we selected 11 noun compounds as a starting point for our study and then found 97 groups of specialized collocations with their corresponding phraseological equivalents. One example of specialized collocation with equivalent can be seen in the pair Wiederherstellung von Sinusrhythmus and restauração do ritmo sinusal. In this study, we realized that the use of statistical methods should be carefully analyzed because it may not consider important information, especially when the objective is to help translators.