[Corpora-List] Arabic transliteration

[Lamia Hadrich Belguith]

Dear Eric,

Many thanks for your message.

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

Generally when we submit a research paper (written in English/ French) on 
Arabic NLP
we are asked to present the latin-character transliteration for the arabic 
sentences !


Lamia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Atwell" <eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk>
To: "Lamia Hadrich Belguith" <l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn>
Cc: <Corpora at uib.no>
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Arabic transliteration


> 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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>>
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>>
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>
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