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  <Title>TotalRecall: A Bilingual Concordance for Computer Assisted Translation and Language Learning</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A concordance tool is particularly useful for studying a piece of literature when thinking in terms of a particular word, phrase or theme. It will show exactly how often and where a word occurs, so can be helpful in building up some idea of how different themes recur within an article or a collection of articles. Concordances have been indispensable for lexicographers and increasingly considered useful for language instructor and learners. A bilingual concordance tool is like a monolingual concordance, except that each sentence is followed by its translation counterpart in a second language. It could be extremely useful for bilingual lexicographers, human translators and second language learners. Pierre Isabelle, in 1993, pointed out: &amp;quot;existing translations contain more solutions to more translation problems than any other existing resource.&amp;quot; It is particularly useful and convenient when the resource of existing translations is made available on the Internet. A web based bilingual system has proved to be very useful and popular.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> For example, the English-French concordance system, TransSearch (Macklovitch et al. 2000). Provides a familiar interface for the users who only need to type in the expression in question, a list of citations will come up and it is easy to scroll down until one finds one that is useful. TotalRecall comes with an additional feature making the solution more easily recognized. The user not only get all the citations related to the expression in question, but also gets to see the translation counterpart highlighted.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> TotalRecall extends the translation memory technology and provide an interactive tool intended for translators and non-native speakers trying to find ideas to properly express themselves. TotalRecall empower the user by allow her to take the initiative in submitting queries for searching authentic, contemporary use of English. These queries may be single words, phrases, expressions or even full sentence, the system will search a substantial and relevant corpus and return bilingual citations that are helpful to human translators and second language learners.</Paragraph>
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