English-Arabic political parallel corpus : construction, analysis and a case study in translation strategies

Joint Authors

Ahmad, Alya al-Sayyid
Yagi, Sane
Hammu, Bassam

Source

Jordanian Journal of Computetrs and Information Technology

Issue

Vol. 3, Issue 3 (31 Dec. 2017), pp.157-171, 15 p.

Publisher

Princess Sumaya University for Technology

Publication Date

2017-12-31

Country of Publication

Jordan

No. of Pages

15

Main Subjects

Languages & Comparative Literature

Abstract EN

This study reports on the construction of a one million word English-Arabic political parallel corpus (EAPPC), which will be a useful resource for research in translation studies, language learning and teaching, bilingual lexicography, contrastive studies, political science studies and cross-language information retrieval.

it describes the phases of corpus compilation and explores the corpus, by way of illustration, to discover the translation strategies used in rendering the Arabic and Islamic culture-specific terms takfīr and takfīrī from Arabic into English and from English into Arabic.

the corpus consists of 351 English and Arabic original documents and their translations.

a total of 189 speeches, 80 interviews and 68 letters, translated by anonymous translators in the royal Hashemite court, were selected and culled from King Abdullah II's official website, in addition to the textual material of the English and Arabic versions of his majesty's book, our last best chance: the pursuit of peace in a time of peril (2011).

the texts were meta-annotated, segmented, tokenized, English-Arabic aligned, stemmed and pos-tagged.

furthermore, a parallel (bilingual) concordance was built in order to facilitate exploration of the parallel corpus.

the challenges encountered in corpus compilation were found to be the scarcity of freely available machine-readable Arabic-English translated texts and the deficiency of tools that process Arabic texts.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Ahmad, Alya al-Sayyid& Hammu, Bassam& Yagi, Sane. 2017. English-Arabic political parallel corpus : construction, analysis and a case study in translation strategies. Jordanian Journal of Computetrs and Information Technology،Vol. 3, no. 3, pp.157-171.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)

Ahmad, Alya al-Sayyid…[et al.]. English-Arabic political parallel corpus : construction, analysis and a case study in translation strategies. Jordanian Journal of Computetrs and Information Technology Vol. 3, no. 3 (Dec. 2017), pp.157-171.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1415325

American Medical Association (AMA)

Ahmad, Alya al-Sayyid& Hammu, Bassam& Yagi, Sane. English-Arabic political parallel corpus : construction, analysis and a case study in translation strategies. Jordanian Journal of Computetrs and Information Technology. 2017. Vol. 3, no. 3, pp.157-171.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1415325

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references : p. 170-171

Record ID

BIM-1415325