Transcription of Arabic names into Latin
Houda Saâdane, Aurélie Rossi, Christian Fluhr, Mathieu Guidère · 2012
Transcription and transliteration are experiencing significant growth due to the increasingly multilingual Internet and to the exponential needs in the field of cross-lingual information retrieval. This is especially true for finding named entities (names of persons, places, companies, organizations, etc.), but these entities have a plurality of forms, spellings, and transcripts depending on languages and countries. The case of Arabic names illustrates this complex and multifaceted situation. In this article, we will briefly introduce the theoretical and practical difficulties that arise in the transcription and transliteration of Arabic names into Latin characters, as well as possible solutions and processing that can solve these difficulties.