Abstract
Since their emergence, newspapers have proved to be valuable resources in society. Newspapers on CD-ROM or numerous searchable Internet archives are essential sources of building corpora because they are primarily available in electronic forms. Different studies used large corpora of newspapers to uncover some discourses related to various issues. By providing an example of a corpus of newspaper articles on the period of the Arab Spring and the 2011 Libyan civil war in general and Libya and Qaddafi in particular, this study shows the steps of designing and compiling a corpus of English and Arabic newspapers. This study highlights some practical constraints researchers can face while building their own corpora. It concludes with some core issues to be considered while designing a corpus from news databases and newspaper websites.
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