Dried-meats Descriptive Cards in Spanish and English: A Corpus Based Study of the Rhetoric Structure

Abstract

The internationalization of the agri-food sector in Spain has increased the need for drafting and translation services from Spanish into English. Within this socioeconomic context, our proposal is to carry out a cross-linguistic study in order to address the rhetoric structure of dried-meat descriptive cards in Spanish and English based on the design, compilation and annotation of a virtual comparable corpus (C-GEFEM). This study will allow us to identify the rhetorical patterns of a specific genre, product descriptive cards in Spanish and English. Results from the analysis of the rhetoric structure will show similarities and differences between Spanish and English, so as to model GEFEM, a tool based on natural language processing which automatically generates dried-meat descriptive cards to satisfy the needs of translators and writers who draft specialized texts about dried meats for the agri-food sector.