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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

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Sattar Izwaini, PhD American University of Sharjah sizwaini@aus.ed

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Traditional dictionaries New collocations Corpus Methodology Questions & Answers

Traditional Collocation Lexicons

Collocation dictionaries: fiqh al-lughah

  • al-mukhassas

naj'at al-raa'id

  • General classical Arabic dictionaries

New Collocations

group of airplanes sirb taa’iraat

  • !

heavy fire waabil min alrasaas " #$%&' noise of a tank hadeer al-dabbabah ()

  • ' '

to conduct negotiations/investigation * +%,(

  • .

/012 Calque translations: money laundering 3%4&56 (n. n.) search engine

  • 71'89 % (n. n.)

bilateral relations 0 8: ;<(n. adj.) highly inflammable 3 =>( (n. adj.) reserve the right ?1 '@+1( (v. n.)

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New Collocations

Other translations: Internet browsing A=B+2 (n. n.) run for elections ' =C( (v. n.) abstain A($>8( (v. n.) live transmission D%& (adj. n.)

Corpus

A corpus of classical collocation dictionaries & general use dictionaries (7 dictionaries) Three collocation dictionaries: fiqh al-lughah, al- mukhassas, naj'at al-raa'id Four general use dictionaries: lisan al-arab, al-sihah, al-kamil, al-qamoos

Corpus

Two corpora of modern Arabic of about 3 million words 153 journalistic articles, part of the Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC) compiled by Mahmoud El-Haj 6000 news articles of alkhaleej & alwatan newspapers compiled by Mourad Abbas Diverse topics and areas: politics, economy, health, religion, sports, finance, education, news science & technology, and art & music

Methodology

Lexical combinations identified Extracted in this corpus as well as in other corpora that are available online, e.g. ArabiCorpus: http://arabicorpus.byu.edu/ Leeds Corpus of Arabic http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/query-ar.html Archaic combinations are removed. Combinations are recorded as entries

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Methodology

Entries: nouns, verbs, and adjectives Nouns are cited along with their noun, verb and adjective collocates Example: #

  • E+2F>0G2F22F$012FB852
  • EH

+(F>H 0G(F&5(F$01(F8(FIJ8(FK8(FB0(FB8(

  • F0LF80:F0M*FD 8%F8N%FO %F02%F1

E$5OPF&GPF;PE0( 2FD0!F0D)Q

  • FR 0*F3<F$H

012F" 8;FS JFT 86FO 2FB8% EA(+2F *

  • F&
  • U

Thank You Any questions?