Bilingual reference corpora : creation, querying, applications

The paper discusses the importance or bilingual reference corpora as valid sources or real-world renderings or texts written in one language (L1) in a second (L2) and illustrates their potential for exploitation in various kinds of crosslanguage studies. A system that has been developed for the creation management and interrogation of such corpora is presented and the integration of this system in a Workstation providing facilities to query and extract information from both mono- and bilingual text archives and lexical databases is described.