The Compilation and Application of the Chinese English Conference Interpretation Corpus

Progress: designed capacity: 500,000 words; present capacity: 368,544 words.

Content: Chinese scripts of the press conferences held by the State Council and departments from 1988 to 2007----195174 characters.

English translations of the press conferences held by the State Council and departments from 1988 to 2007----141579 words.

English scripts of the press conferences held by US federal government from 2001 to 2005----31791 words.

Achievements: CSSCI papers, Master’s thesis, Corpus and Interpretation Studies will be published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.