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1)Comparable CorporaThis 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 GDPGross 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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3- Debt (n.)Nouns Adj. Verbs + debt Expressions Prep + debt

Levels

Write-off

Crisis

ObligationsPile

Burden

Decline

Restructure

Repayment

Refinance

Buyback

Outlook

Government

Sustainable

Foreign

Public

Sovereign

Cut

Downgrade

Repay

ReduceLower

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

tranchePlan

Program

Package

Aid

Effort

Mechanism

Reject

PaySpike

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

BudgetImbalance

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Deficit

Consolidation