[Corpora-List] Arabic transliteration

[Eric Atwell]

Dear Lamia,

I would actually advise that it is not a good idea to use a
latin-character transliteration for Arabic text unless you really have
to. In Arabic computational linguistics, the Buckwalter transliteration
scheme is probably the most widely known, see

http://www.qamus.org/transliteration.htm

BUT few Arabic scholars outside of Computational Linguistics would
be at all familiar with this transliteration. 
This was developed a a time when computers could not handle Arabic
script, only ASCII Latin characters.  More recently, most computers use the
UNICODE character set whcih includes encoding of the Arabic alphabet, 
so it is now relatively straighforward to display, process, and
concordance Arabic text in original Arabic script, e.g. see

Roberts, Andrew; Al-Sulaiti, Latifa; Atwell, Eric. aConCorde: Towards an
open-source, extendable concordancer for Arabic. Corpora, vol. 1, pp.
39-57. 2006.

Why do you want to transliterate your Arabic text to the Latin alphabet?

Eric Atwell, Univesity of Leeds   http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic



On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Lamia Hadrich Belguith wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> I am looking for a standard for Arabic transliteration
> using Latin characters
> Can anybody give me a hint?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Lamia
>
>
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