LEARNING · METHODS · PRACTICE
Learning to investigate multilingual communication, translation and interpreting.
Teaching and learning at ARCTIS connect the centre’s subject areas with the skills needed to ask questions, analyse language data and communicate findings. The emphasis is on understanding multilingual communication and making informed decisions in translation and interpreting.
Learning Opportunities
Academic Staff Development
Professional development placements for lecturers and researchers, with an individual programme and an agreed final output.
Virtual Academic Mobility
Structured remote learning, research and academic exchange with agreed outcomes and supervision.
Student Internships
Supervised practical experience for students of VIZJA, other Polish universities and universities abroad.
ARCTIS Open Seminars
Eight open hybrid meetings connecting student research and community projects. Explore the provisional calendar for October 2026–June 2027 and participation information.
Learning Areas
Multilingualism
Explore language choice, multilingual practices and language policy. Learning tasks connect concepts with examples of communication across languages and communities.
Corpus Translation Studies
Learn to work with parallel and comparable texts, formulate corpus searches and interpret concordances. Use linguistic evidence to examine terminology, phraseology and translation choices.
Interpreting Studies
Connect interpreting practice with the analysis of speech, meaning and communicative context. Reflect on interpreting decisions, listening strategies and the responsible use of language technologies.
Learning Formats
The educational focus brings together practical work with texts and data, methodological discussion, presentations and academic exchange. Seminars, workshops and project-based schools provide different settings for this work; dates, participation arrangements and the content of individual events are given in their announcements.
Student Research & Mentoring
The learning pathway moves from a focused question to a reasoned interpretation of evidence. It includes selecting suitable materials, choosing a method, documenting analytical decisions, acknowledging limitations and presenting work for discussion. Student presentations and feedback help connect classroom learning with developing research.
For enquiries about participation or an individual topic, contact the centre. Available opportunities and supervision arrangements depend on the relevant programme and staff availability.
Learning Resources
Sketch Engine — full access for ARCTIS participants
Full access to Sketch Engine is available to all ARCTIS participants for teaching, learning and research. The platform supports corpus searches, concordance analysis, exploration of word combinations and terminology work.
To receive access instructions, contact the centre at y.kapranov@vizja.pl.
Corpus Resources
A selected catalogue for multilingualism, corpus translation and interpreting studies. Start with a language to investigate usage, choose a parallel resource to compare translations, or explore specialised collections for a particular research question. The catalogue includes individual corpora, corpus collections and translation memories; their different purposes are indicated below.
Select a heading to explore the resources. External collections are maintained by their providers, and access conditions may change.
1. Explore by language
English (3 resources)
British National Corpus (BNC) ↗
Written and spoken British English from the late twentieth century. A reference point for vocabulary, phraseology, register and British–American comparisons.
Access: Official documentation and links to search services; access arrangements depend on the interface.
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) ↗
American English across different genres. Useful for collocations, register comparisons and evidence-based translation choices.
Access: Online interface at English-Corpora.org; account and usage limits apply, with additional access options offered by the provider.
Spoken BNC2014 ↗
Contemporary informal British conversations. Useful for spoken grammar, discourse markers and comparison with written language.
Access: Free CQPweb account and acceptance of the corpus licence are required.
Polish (2 resources)
National Corpus of Polish (NKJP) ↗
A reference corpus for Polish vocabulary, grammar, phraseology and register. The PELCRA interface includes concordances, collocations and a spoken-language section.
Access: Online search via PELCRA; consult the corpus documentation for citation and reuse.
MoncoPL ↗
A continually updated corpus of contemporary Polish web texts. Useful for emerging terminology, recent usage and changing word combinations.
Access: Online search; CLARIN-PL / E-SCIENCE sign-in is available for account-based access.
Ukrainian (1 resource)
General Regionally Annotated Corpus of Ukrainian (GRAC) ↗
Ukrainian texts with regional, historical and register information. Supports research on vocabulary, grammar, variation and translation equivalents in context.
Access: Search interface and citation guidance are provided on the project website.
German (1 resource)
DWDS corpus resources ↗
German corpus and lexical resources for exploring usage, collocations and language change. Useful for checking German terminology and translation choices.
Access: Consult the selected collection’s access conditions; availability varies across the portal.
French (1 resource)
ORFÉO / CEFC ↗
French language data with written and spoken materials, including conversations and professional communication. Useful for register, syntax and discourse analysis.
Access: Online text search through ORTOLANG; consult each component’s documentation for media and reuse conditions.
Italian (2 resources)
CORIS / CODIS ↗
A corpus of written Italian for studying vocabulary, collocations and textual variation. Useful for translation-oriented language analysis.
Access: Online consultation for scientific research, subject to the provider’s non-commercial conditions.
KIParla ↗
Spoken Italian from different communicative settings and speakers, with transcripts aligned to audio. Useful for interaction and spoken-language analysis.
Access: Transcripts are freely searchable; audio access is available on request under the project’s conditions.
Spanish (1 resource)
CORPES XXI ↗
Contemporary Spanish written and spoken texts from across the Spanish-speaking world. Useful for geographical variation, phraseology and translation decisions.
Access: Online consultation through the Real Academia Española; documentation and search access are linked on the resource page.
Lithuanian (1 resource)
Corpus of the Contemporary Lithuanian Language ↗
A reference collection of contemporary Lithuanian maintained by Vytautas Magnus University. Useful for lexical usage and Baltic-language comparison.
Access: The CLARIN-LT record provides resource information and access details.
Finnish & Finland Swedish (1 resource)
Language Bank of Finland — Korp collections ↗
A corpus search platform with Finnish and Finland Swedish collections. Supports concordance searches, grammar and comparisons across selected text types.
Access: Many collections are available without login; others require sign-in or individual access rights.
2. Parallel corpora & translation memories
Multilingual translation resources (4 resources)
OPUS ↗
A multilingual collection of parallel corpora from different domains. Useful for finding language pairs, examining translation equivalents and building comparative datasets.
Access: Search and download options vary by collection. Check alignment quality, provenance and the licence of each dataset.
InterCorp ↗
A multilingual parallel corpus built around alignment with Czech. Useful for contrastive linguistics and translation comparison across available language combinations.
Access: Online consultation through KonText; follow Czech National Corpus registration and access instructions.
Europarl ↗
Aligned European Parliament proceedings in multiple European languages. Useful for institutional discourse, translation patterns and parallel-text methods.
Access: Downloadable corpus releases. These are parliamentary texts, not an aligned corpus of live interpretations.
DGT Translation Memory ↗
Aligned translation units from EU legislation. Useful for legal terminology, institutional phraseology and translation-memory exercises.
Access: Public downloads from the European Commission; a translation memory rather than a general-language reference corpus. Follow the published reuse conditions.
3. Interpreting & specialised discourse
Interpreting, parliamentary and public-health resources (3 resources)
EPTIC — European Parliament Translation and Interpreting Corpus ↗
A particularly relevant resource for ARCTIS: speeches, interpretations and written translations are aligned for comparison. Language components include English, French, Italian, German, Finnish, Polish and Slovenian.
Access: Online consultation via the project’s NoSketch Engine link. Check available language combinations and the provider’s usage conditions.
ParlaMint ↗
Comparable parliamentary corpora across countries and languages. Useful for multilingual political discourse, terminology and cross-country comparison.
Access: Documentation links to corpus releases and concordancers. Comparable national debates are not translations of the same speeches; machine-translated material is identified separately.
ECDC Translation Memory ↗
Multilingual public-health texts and their professional translations. Useful for specialised terminology and health-communication translation exercises.
Access: Publicly distributed translation-memory data; check the resource’s reuse conditions and domain coverage.
Centre and project materials, where available, are linked through Outputs and the relevant project pages. Reuse permissions are stated with each item.
A supporting resource: the Laboratory
The Laboratory of Phonetics and Oral Interpretation at VIZJA University supports relevant work with speech, listening and interpreting. It is one resource for learning and research across the centre’s subject areas. Equipment, facilities and laboratory information are presented on its dedicated page.
