VARTRA

This paper presents a comparable trans- lation corpus created to investigate trans- lation variation phenomena in terms of contrasts between languages, text types and translation methods (machine vs. computer-aided vs. human). These phe- nomena are reflected in linguistic fea- tures of translated texts belonging to dif- ferent registers and produced with differ- ent translation methods. For their analysis, we combine methods derived from trans- lation studies, language variation and ma- chine translation, concentrating especially on textual and lexico-grammatical varia- tion. To our knowledge, none of the ex- isting corpora can provide comparable re- sources for a comprehensive analysis of variation across text types and translation methods. Therefore, the corpus resources created, as well as our analysis results will find application in different research areas, such as translation studies, machine trans- lation, and others.