<div>Dear Lamia,</div> <div> </div> <div>I suggest the Arabic Unified Transliteration (AUT) at the adress :</div> <div><A href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Qalandariyy/Translitt%C3%A9ration_arabe_unifi%C3%A9e">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Qalandariyy/Translitt%C3%A9ration_arabe_unifi%C3%A9e</A></div> <div> </div> <div>It can be easily read by Arabic as well as non-Arabic speakers ...</div> <div> </div> <div>In addition, the author gives a comparaison of about ten different transliteration systems...</div> <div> </div> <div>NB: The paper is written in French</div> <div> </div> <div>Slim <BR><BR><B><I>Ron Artstein <artstein@essex.ac.uk></I></B> a écrit :</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Eric Atwell wrote:<BR><BR>>>> Why do you want to transliterate your Arabic text to the Latin
alphabet?<BR>>><BR>>> Generally when we submit a research paper (written in English/ French)<BR>>> on Arabic NLP we are asked to present the latin-character<BR>>> transliteration for the arabic sentences !<BR>><BR>> For this, I suggest the Buckwalter transliteration is not the <BR>> best solution, as it maps some Araic letters to ASCII characters <BR>> whcih are not roman alphabet letters, making the transcription <BR>> simple to process but hard for humans to read.<BR><BR>I wholeheartedly agree with Eric: Buckwalter transliteration is <BR>usually not appropriate for a published paper because only a <BR>handful of people working in Arabic NLP can read it fluently. The <BR>appropriate transliteration or transcription depends on the <BR>expected audience -- Arabists/Orientalists would probably be more <BR>comfortable reading a ZDMG-style transcription, whereas general <BR>linguists would probably prefer one based on IPA. The following
<BR>page has a table comparing the two:<BR><BR>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN-31635<BR><BR>-Ron.<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Corpora mailing list<BR>Corpora@uib.no<BR>http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>
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