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5/16/2011 Outline � Traditional dictionaries � New collocations � Corpus � Methodology Sattar Izwaini, PhD � Questions & Answers American University of Sharjah sizwaini@aus.ed New Collocations Traditional Collocation Lexicons ����� ! � ��� � group of airplanes sirb taa’iraat � heavy fire waabil min alrasaas " #����$%�&'�� � Collocation dictionaries: �' '� � �(�) � noise of a tank hadeer al-dabbabah ������ � ��� � fiqh al-lughah � to conduct negotiations/investigation � al-mukhassas ������� �. /�0�12 - � *� +%�,��( � naj'at al-raa'id Calque translations : ���������������������������������������������� � money laundering 3��%4��&56 (n. n.) � General classical Arabic dictionaries �71'��89 % (n. n.) � � search engine � bilateral relations ��0� 8:�� ;<� (n. adj.) � highly inflammable 3 ���=��>(�� (n. adj.) � reserve the right ?1� '�@+�1( (v. n.) 1

5/16/2011 Corpus New Collocations � A corpus of classical collocation dictionaries & Other translations : general use dictionaries (7 dictionaries) � Internet browsing A����=��B+�2 (n. n.) � Three collocation dictionaries: fiqh al-lughah, al- � run for elections � ' ���=��C��( (v. n.) mukhassas, naj'at al-raa'id � abstain A(������$��>8��( (v. n.) � live transmission �� D%�&�� (adj. n.) � Four general use dictionaries: lisan al-arab, al-sihah, al-kamil, al-qamoos Corpus Methodology � Two corpora of modern Arabic of about 3 million � Lexical combinations identified words � Extracted in this corpus as well as in other corpora � 153 journalistic articles, part of the Essex Arabic that are available online, e.g. ArabiCorpus: Summaries Corpus (EASC) compiled by http://arabicorpus.byu.edu/ Mahmoud El-Haj � Leeds Corpus of Arabic � 6000 news articles of alkhaleej & alwatan http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/query-ar.html newspapers compiled by Mourad Abbas � Archaic combinations are removed. � Diverse topics and areas: politics, economy, � Combinations are recorded as entries health, religion, sports, finance, education, news science & technology, and art & music 2

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