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Producing Algorithmically Standard Romanization of Arabic Names Using Hints from Non-Standards

FAWAZ S. AL-ANZI

Department of Computer Engineering, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 5969, Safat, Postal Code 13060, Kuwait

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219427904001061Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

This article addresses the problem of standard Romanization of Arabic names using undiacritized-Arabic forms and their corresponding non-standard Romanization. The Romanization of Arabic names has long been studied and standardized. Huge amounts of non-standard Arabic databases of Romanized names exist that are in use in many private and government agencies. Examples of such applications are passport name holder databases, phone directories, and geographic names databases. Dealing with such databases can be inefficient and can produce inconsistent results. Converting such databases into their standard Romanization can help in solving these problems.

In this paper, we present an efficient algorithmic software implementation which produces standard Romanization of Arabic alphabet name presentation by utilizing the hints in the existing non-standard Romanized databases. The results of the software implementation have proven to be very promising.

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