IMF’s impact on Argentina

using Nooj to automatically analyze the print media literature on Argentina’s debt affairs

Abstract

This work seeks to examine the automatic processing of a corpus of newspaper articles within the framework of the Centro de Estudios de Tecnología Educativa y Herramientas Informáticas de Procesamiento del Lenguaje (CETEHIPL). The articles were selected from three Argentine newspapers with a strong focus on economic, financial and business matters: El Cronista, Ámbito Financiero and El Economista. These articles are written in Rioplatense Spanish and were published after the Argentina’s 2021 mid-term elections. Our goal is to fully analyze and understand where it is placed their focus of attention, and how the post pandemic effects on the Argentine economy are reflected at the discourse level. We are acquainted with the fact that our corpus is certainly intersected by a media-related logic. According to Hjarvard [2], “media play a relevant role in transforming culture and society”. We started from the dictionaries and grammars elaborated by our IES_UNR team based on the NooJ platform, Silberztein [4]. Therefore, two semantic fields were established, one related to the pandemic and the other to economic problems such as poverty, restrictions, devaluation and, of course, Argentina's debt with the IMF. In terms of perspectives, we are planning to add other Argentine reference newspapers to our corpus.