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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Since lots of people have been mentioning the Buckwalter transliteration, it’s worth mentioning that this is designed for a very specific purpose: one-to-one
lossless representation of the original sequence of Arabic characters using only ASCII characters. This is ideal for the places where that transliteration is usually used, i.e. within Arabic processing systems. Given the NLP interests of many list members
it’s not surprising the Buckwalter system was the first suggested.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">But this scheme is not ideal for purposes other than automatic processing. It’s not designed for readability, or to reflect pronunciation, or to be used (for
instance) for the rendering of Arabic examples in published papers! For these kinds of purposes, you are much better off with either an actual IPA transcription (if you need to discuss phonetic details) or an accepted standard Romanisation, such as ISO-233
or the Library of Congress scheme. Typically a Romanisation scheme will not be a direct transliteration because it will normally make explicit features of the pronunciation which are implicit in Arabic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">best<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Andrew.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> corpora-bounces@uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Marwa GRAJA<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 29 May 2012 13:02<br>
<b>To:</b> Amira Barhoumi<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Corpora@uib.no<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Corpora-List] arabic transliteration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Amira,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You can find in the attached file the java program of Backwalter Code .<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Good luck<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2012/5/25 Amira Barhoumi <<a href="mailto:amirabarhoumi29@yahoo.fr" target="_blank">amirabarhoumi29@yahoo.fr</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Hello, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I want to know how doing transliteration of an Arabic sentence.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Is there any norm?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Amira <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Master student in computer science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Marwa GRAJA<br>
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