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On Arabic Transliteration

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Arabic Computational Morphology

Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology ((TLTB,volume 38))

Abstract

This chapter introduces the transliteration scheme used to represent Arabic characters in this book. The scheme is a one-to-one transliteration of the Arabic script that is complete, easy to read, and consistent with Arabic computer encodings. We present guidelines for Arabic pronunciation using this transliteration scheme and discuss various idiosyncrasies of Arabic orthography

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University, United States

    Nizar Habash

  2. Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale, Rabat, Morocco

    Abdelhadi Soudi

  3. Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, United States

    Timothy Buckwalter

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  1. Nizar Habash
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Ecole Nationale de I’Industrie Minérale, Rabat, Morocco

    Abdelhadi Soudi

  2. Tilburg University, The Netherlands

    Antal van den Bosch

  3. Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Günter Neumann

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Habash, N., Soudi, A., Buckwalter, T. (2007). On Arabic Transliteration. In: Soudi, A., Bosch, A.v., Neumann, G. (eds) Arabic Computational Morphology. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6046-5_2

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