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Strategies, SI technique and process modelling 
Using time-aligned authentic corpora is essential to understand and to model the 
cognitive processes and strategies in simultaneous interpreting. Until today it is the 
machine-interpreting research group at Nagoya (Japan) that has published the 
most intensive corpus-fed research on interpreting strategies and processes. They 
published a classification of Japanese-English SI strategies (Tohyama et al., 
2006a), which are the control of the utterance speed, the control of delay time, the 
control of the length of the pause, and the good use of sight translation pattern. 
These four categories were used as index to categorize the CIAIR (Center for 
Integrated Acoustic Information Center) simultaneous interpretation corpus into 
appropriate order of difficulty. They also detailed measurements of lag (Ohno et al., 
2008) and showed that Japanese-English interpretation has a larger delay than 
English-Japanese interpretation and that numerals are interpreted quickly 
regardless of the language pairs. Finally, they conducted analyses of human vs. 
machine segmentation for SI and stated that human segmentation was more 
difficult to implement when there were discourse markers (Ding et al., 2005). 

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Corpus-based interpreting studies 
 
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Social and ideological aspects 
Some CIS studies focus on intertextuality, norms or interpreter-participant 
interaction (Diriker, 2001). In terms of norms, Diriker lays the emphasis on 
objectivity and faithfulness. When the interpreter filters out ‘unessential 
information’ (mainly paralinguistic elements), he/she makes a choice, the choice to 
omit. That means that the interpreter is a much more active participant than 
usually accepted. CIS studies also investigate the use of linguistic and discourse 
indicators such as lexical density, repetition, metaphor or politeness (Monacelli, 
2009). As for politeness, Monacelli’s findings (2009) reveal that interpreters tend to 
have a self-regulatory behavior, such as “distancing, de-personalization and the 
mitigation of illocutionary force” (2009: 158). They are then in a detached position 
to the source text and the target text. Finally, some CIS studies focus on the 
expression of ideology or cultural identity (Beaton, 2007). Beaton’s findings 
suggest that simultaneous interpreters strengthen EU institutional hegemony, 
especially due to their extensive use of conceptual metaphor strings.