Roman transliteration of Arabic script in Unicode: A project report
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2007-11
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1st International Symposium on Arabic and Computational Linguistics
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There have been several projects to provide transliteration algorithms, most of which, however, are machine-based transliteration of Arabic names into English which are designed mainly for cataloging and information retrieval purposes. Such works, generally, do not cover all Arabic words and are not available for individual users. This paper reports on a completed project on a transliteration algorithm entitled “Roman Transliteration of Arabic Script: A Transliteration Kit” (ROTAS) submitted to the International Islamic University Malaysia in December 2006. ROTAS is utility software, designed mainly for academic purposes, that lets a writer/researcher automatically or manually transliterate texts from Arabic script into Roman script, using the writing-based model of the Arabic orthography. It also enables one to convert texts from many of the early transliteration fonts into a set of Unicode compliant fonts included in its package. This paper describes the design and implementation of the software and the modules we employed in the research project.
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Solihu, A. K. H. (2007). Roman transliteration of Arabic script in Unicode: A project report. 1st International Symposium on Arabic and Computational Linguistics, Jointly organized by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology & Saudi Computer Society, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 10-14, 2007, pp. 81-87