Arabic-L:GEN:Transliteration Software Responses

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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1) Subject: Transliteration Software Response
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3) Subject: Transliteration Software Response

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Date: 21 Jul 2000
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Transliteration Software Response

Greetings.

Doubtful that such a software exists, especially for transliteration (into
IPA or other fairly-common/standard charset)?

Kindly describe your project and research interests, and there may be other
approaches and products that are suitable, in sha' Allah.

Most software involving manipulaiton of Arabic these days is along the line
of direct Arabic => English translation, and even those seem shaky and "raw"
in their products. (Yasir Oneizan at USC's ISI may be able to mention what's
current in the field.)

HTH.

Regards from Los Angeles.

Sincerely,

Stephen H. Franke
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Date: 21 Jul 2000
From: Klaus Lagally <lagally at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: Transliteration Software Response

The ArabTeX system will probably do just what you are looking for.
For info see

	ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/arabtex/arabtex.htm

Best wishes

Klaus Lagally

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Date: 21 Jul 2000
From: Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject: Transliteration Software Response

If you are willing to work with text files, and if you are willing to use a
transliteration scheme that represents a one to one correspondence between
the Arabic letters and the Latin letters that transliterate them, the
problem is trivially easy with Perl, a free computer language available for
all platforms. I could send you a few lines of code and all you would have
to do is fill in the exact letters you want transliterated back and forth
from.  The problem is that most people don't want to use that kind of
transliteration scheme.  They want 'shiin' to be represented with 'sh', but
they want to computer to know that the 'sh' in the elative 'ashal' is not
an example of that 'sh', but is rather a separate 's' and 'h'.  Etc.
Dil

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