Answers

Exercise 1 - Finding glossaries

ANSWER: Use the English Google glossary search interface with the following search criteria:

Search criteria:	Finds...
"jumbo certificate of deposit" => finds the exact phrase	www.marketvolume.com/ glossary/j0018.asp
"jumbo certificate" deposit => searches for phrase "jumbo certificate" and term "deposit"	...
"jumbo certificate"	...
"jumbo certificates of deposit" => try the plural!	www.nkcsd.k12.mo.us/nkhs/ clubs/invest/diction.htm

Exercise 2 - Finding glossaries

ANSWER: Use the German Google glossary search interface (select the language in the menu on the left) with search criteria gonarthrose.

Finds: www.gesundheit.de/roche/ro12500/r14243.html (incl. illustration)

Exercise 3 - Finding glossaries

ANSWER: Use English or German glossary search interfaces.

In Altavista, replace "keyword" with: (outperformer OR out-performer)

In Google, run separate searches for different spellings to avoid exceeding Google's 10-word limit.

Exercise 4 - Finding abbreviations

ANSWER: Use the English glossary search interface or abbreviation search interface with search criteria UNHCR (or U.N.H.C.R. if you get no results). In Google use quotation marks to indicate the exact phrase "U.N.H.C.R.", otherwise the letters might be considered separately.

Solution: www.genevabriefingbook.com/chapters/acronyms.html

UNHCR = United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

For a more reliable answer, try: www.unhcr.org (click on "Contact us").

Exercise 5 - Finding the missing word

ANSWER: Search criteria: "in accordance * the new regulations"

NOTES:	1)	Quotation marks for the phrase, one "" for one missing word. Finds: in accordance with* the new regulations
	2)	To broaden your search, replace "new" with "" ("in accordance * the * regulations"). This will find for example: => in accordance with* the previous regulations, in accordance with the financial regulations

Exercise 6 - Finding parallel texts

ANSWER: Altavista EN-DE technique "SL in URL & link to TL". Replace "keyword" with "euro-area member state*"

NOTES: 1) Letter wildcard "*" to cover singular and plural;

2) Lower case to cover all combinations of upper and lower case (euro-area Member State(s), Euro-area Member State(s), Euro-Area Member State(s) etc.)

(if you use the Google search interfaces, remember that Google does not allow the letter wildcard "*" – so to search for singular and plural you will have to run separate searches – and is not case sensitive)

Finds the document: http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?
p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=IP/01/900|0|AGED&lg=EN&display=
Change EN to DE in the URL to get the same page in German.

This page may also be found by going directly to the EU's website (http://europe.eu.int/) and using the site's own search engine since we know that most of the EU's documentation exists in both languages.

http://www.euro.ecb.int/en/what/history.html (English)
http://www.euro.ecb.int/de/what/history.html (German)
=> Translation: e.g. Teilnehmerstaaten

NOTES:	1)	When browsing through the results, check the URL for an indication that the document exists in other languages. Most do, but not all;
	2)	Locate your search term on the page you have opened (CTRL-F);
	3)	Open a new browser window (CTRL-N);
	4)	Change the language to German in the URL (or click on the language link) and locate the German equivalent: To find the corresponding location in the target text, search for key figures or abbreviations which are bound to remain the same and check the page number and the scroll bar position on the right.

Exercise 7 - Finding bilingual glossaries/parallel texts on the same page

ANSWER: Search criteria (directly in Google):

En>Fr - search criteria	Finds:
"jumbo certificate of deposit" dépôt	www.tradinglab.com/tradinglab/jsp/web/templates/ navigatore_FR.jsp?idDocument= 9753&idNode=2429 (certificat de dépôt jumbo)
"jumbo certificate of deposit" "le" est	NOTE: quotation marks around "le", a common word, which would otherwise be ignored.

En>It - search criteria	Finds:
"jumbo certificate of deposit" deposito	www.performancetrading.it/Resource/Glossario/Ci.htm (certificato di deposito Jumbo) "È un certificato di deposito avente un valore facciale molto alto, solitamente oltre i centomila dollari..."
"jumbo certificate of deposit" "il" è	www.carige.it/html/ita/utilita/j.htm

Exercise 8 - Finding parallel texts

ANSWER: Syntax on UBS website: " " for phrases!

Finds: www.ubs.com/e/cc/financing/company/fixed.html (Festkredit)

Exercise 9 - Finding parallel texts

ANSWER: AV It-Fr technique no. 1 with search term casellario giudiziale:

Italian: http://www.admin.ch/ch/i/rs/33.html
French: http://www.admin.ch/ch/f/rs/33.html => Translation: e.g. casier judiciaire

Alternatively, you could try Eurodicautom, the EU's multilingual terminology database.

Exercise 10 - Finding bilingual glossaries/parallel texts on the same page

ANSWER (search criteria):	Finds:
"punitive damages danni" Note: this exact sequence	www.forumpress.it/oldsite/numeridiforum/15_ 12_2000/XX_XX_XXXX/Pagina_18.htm
*"danni punitive damages"** Note: one "*" for one missing word	www.diritto.it/articoli/civile/nava_tesi/ nava_cap9_sez5.html
"punitive damages" danni	www.generali.it/glossa/0501.htm
"punitive damages" glossario (=> a simple form of the Italian glossary search interface)	http://data.it.biz.yahoo.com/010222/m2/5st.html NOTE: To find a multilingual glossary, you could search for your source language term using the glossary search interfaces in your target language.

Exercise 11 - Finding bilingual glossaries/parallel texts on the same page

ANSWER (search criteria):	Finds:
"untersteht * Recht" est	www.all-inserateline.ch/Bed_Breakfast/ allgembedingung.htm (... untersteht schweizerischem Recht: Les rapports entre vous et all-tra insertline sont régis exclusivement par le droit suisse) www.swisscom.com/sys/pdf/20325304xx_ ia_000_b0.pdf (... untersteht nationalem Recht: Le présent contrat est soumis au droit national)