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1) Comparable Corpora
This project is based on a comparable ENG-AR corpus that comprises a collection of
reports, articles and papers about the Greek debt crisis.
The combined word count of both corpora is over 23.000 words. As shown in the
table below, 30 English keywords and their Arabic equivalents were found.
No. ENG Keywords AR Equivalents
1 Debt maturities
2 Buyback
3 Sovereign debts
4 Debt obligations
5 Government bonds
6 Government expenditures
7 Bailout plan
8 Bailout package
9 Liquidity crisis
10 Eurozone
11 Budget deficit
12 Spending cuts
13 Fiscal balance
14 Economic growth
15 Economic recession
16 Tax evasion
17 GDP Gross Domestic Product
18 Austerity measures
19 Fiscal consolidation
20 Labor market
21 Interest rate
22 Clientalism
23 Borrowing
24 Creditors
25 Social benefits
26 Troika
27 Tax revenues
28 Inflation
29 Debt restructure
30 Privatization


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Mining for English Keywords
Step #1: Head word is selected from AntConc wordlist.
Step #2: Related keywords are extracted using the AntConc Clusters or Concordance
tools.
The screenshots below show how the key expressions "debt maturities", "tax evasion"
and "fiscal consolidation" have been found following the above steps.
Step #1

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Step #2
Using the Concordance tool:
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Using the Clusters tool:

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Mining for Arabic Equivalents
Step #1: Looking up part of the expression using the Clusters tool.
The screenshots below show how Arabic equivalents of the key expressions "debt
maturities", "tax evasion" and "fiscal consolidation" have been by looking up "",
"" and "" (respectively) using the Clusters tool.

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Word Behavior
1- The word "borrowing" (n.) occurs with nouns such as "cap" [a cap on
borrowing], "cost(s)" and "level". It is also usually preceded by verbs like
"finance".



2- "Tax" modifies other nouns such as "evasion", "rise(s)", "revenues", "income",
"collection" and "code". Several adjectives co-occur with "tax evasion" such
as "widespread", "mass", "endemic", and "pervasive".

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3- Debt (n.)
Nouns Adj. Verbs + debt Expressions Prep + debt
Levels
Write-off
Crisis
Obligations
Pile
Burden
Decline
Restructure
Repayment
Refinance
Buyback
Outlook
Government
Sustainable
Foreign
Public
Sovereign
Cut
Downgrade
Repay
Reduce
Lower
Debt +
Verbs
Hit
Reach
Debt-ridden In



4- Austerity (n.)
Nouns Adj. Verb + austerity
Measures
Round
Package
Drive
Rate
Draconian
Tough
Permanent
Temporary
Crushing

Implement

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5- Bailout (n.)
Nouns Verb + bailout
Loan
tranche
Plan
Program
Package
Aid
Effort
Mechanism
Reject
Pay
Spike
Take
Schedule


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6- Inflation (n.)
Nouns Verbs
Numbers Keep under control


7- Spending (n.)
Nouns Adj. Verbs Spending + Prep
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Cuts
Money
Public
Drastic
Reckless
Unrestrained
Governmental
Soar On



8- Deficit (n.)
Noun Verb + deficit
Budget
Reduction
Management
Target
Go into
Reduce

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9- Bonds (n.)
Nouns Adj. Verbs
Government Sovereign Buy
Issue
Purchase


10- Fiscal (adj.)
Nouns
Plan
Blanace
Budget
Imbalance
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Deficit
Consolidation