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rinnakkaiskorporaatti

Rinnakkaiskorporaatti, also known as parallel corpus, is a type of corpus that contains texts in two or more languages that are translations or adaptations of each other. These corpora are valuable resources for translation studies, language learning, and computational linguistics. They allow researchers to study how different languages express similar meanings, and how translation choices are made. Rinnakkaiskorporaatti can be created from various sources, such as literary works, legal documents, or technical manuals, and can be used to train machine translation systems or to develop bilingual dictionaries. The creation of a rinnakkaiskorporaatti involves aligning the texts in the different languages, often at the sentence or paragraph level, to ensure that the corresponding segments are indeed translations of each other. This alignment can be done manually or with the help of computational tools. The quality of a rinnakkaiskorporaatti depends on the accuracy of the alignment and the representativeness of the texts it contains.