Multilingual corpora, combined with alignment and search tools, are today acknowledged for their theoretical as well as practical importance in cross-linguistic studies and applications: they provide a rich basis of language correspondences in context that can serve as testbeds for linguistic theories and hypotheses, but they are also essential for applications in the fields of lexicography, natural language processing, automatic or machine-assisted translation and language teaching (Altenberg and Granger, 2002;Johansson, 2007).
an ID Gloss and a [begin,end] time interval) to the corresponding part of the French translation fragment where the meaning of this sign is given in context.