Software localization: The challenging aspects of Arabic to the localization process (Arabization)

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering, SE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 275-279

  Abufardeh, Sameer ^a   Magel, Kenneth ^a  

^a North Dakota State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabization; Bidirectional languages; Classical Arabic; Diacritics (Tashkil); Machine translation (MT); Modern standard Arabic (MSA)

Indexed keywords

ARABIZATION; BIDIRECTIONAL LANGUAGES; CLASSICAL ARABIC; DIACRITICS (TASHKIL); MACHINE TRANSLATION (MT); MODERN STANDARD ARABIC (MSA);

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; STANDARDS; TELLURIC PROSPECTING; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 62849095997     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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