2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

A Novel Roman-Arabic Alphabet Translation System

Research Project

Project/Area Number	16500073
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Media informatics/Database
Research Institution	Meio University
Principal Investigator	ALI Fathelalem Meio Univ, Manage.& Information Sciences, Prof, 国際学部経営情報学科, 教授 (70331189)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	NAKAZATO Shu Meio Univ, Manage.And Inform.Sciences, Associate Prof, 国際学部経営情報学科, 助教授 (90257197) NAKAO Zensho Ryukyu Univ, Electric.& Electro.Engineering, Prof, 工学部, 教授 (50175486)
Project Period (FY)	2004 – 2005
Keywords	Arabic Text / phonetic mapping / QWERTY keyboard / Transliteration
Research Abstract	Presented in this work is a phonetical mapping of Arabic alphabet on the QWERTY Latin Keyboard. Most of the Arabic characters have their equivalent English ones. However, some Arabic characters do not map well to a single English character. Some others sound different to the English characters. A survey and a questionnaire were made, and statistics gathered were used to improvise and map the characters to the QWERTY Latin keyboard. An input method is developed in accordance with the proposed mapping. The input method allows a user with an English keyboard to enter Arabic text phonetically.

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