Police-Rescue Learner’s Dictionary Epp Leibur, Külli Saluste

The beginning… January 2006

Online : easily accessible to users easy to update and modify Corpus-based corpora on police-related and rescue related topics high frequency words and collocations identified with WordSmith4 Police-Rescue Learner’s Dictionary

Corpora A corpus ‘can be described as a large collection of authentic texts that have been gathered in electronic form according to a specific set of criteria’ (Bowker and Pearson, 2002) Corpora are used by: dictionary makers language teachers

Forensics Crime scene investigation DNA Drugs Fingerprints Firearms Forensic anthropology Forensic Photography Impression evidence Pathology Questioned documents Trace evidence Voice analysis words

Word search Police-Rescue Learner´s Dictionary Topic word search Simple word search Fingerprint

2011 – a new phase in the development Internal reasons: right thing in the right way? External reasons

Planned activities: Revision and updating of topics to cover the field of internal security Cooperation and consultations with relevant boards and specialists on terminology and input Adding pronunciation and pictures with the possibility of tagging them

Demo Erialakeele sõnastiku arendus

Planned activities (2): Improvement of the search system (headwords + collocations) Adjustment of layout and format Focus on Estonian-English English- Estonian (3000 headwords in five years’ time)

Target audience: Students and specialists in EASS Specialists in Estonian Police and Border Guard Board and Estonian Rescue Board Translators, interpreters, etc In terms of language proficiency: from lower-intermediate to advanced

Questions? Thank you!