Using Transliteration of Proper Names from Arabic to Latin Script to Improve English-Arabic Word Alignment

Transliterating Kurdish texts in Latin into Persian-Arabic script

Kurdish is written in different scripts. The two most popular scripts are Latin and Persian-Arabic. However, not all Kurdish readers are familiar with both mentioned scripts that could be resolved by automatic transliter…

Proper Name Diacritization for Arabic Wikipedia: A Benchmark Dataset

Proper names in Arabic Wikipedia are frequently undiacritized, creating ambiguity in pronunciation and interpretation, especially for transliterated named entities of foreign origin. While transliteration and diacritizat…

Linguistic Issues in the Machine Transliteration of Chinese, Japanese and Arabic Names

AyutthayaAlpha: A Thai-Latin Script Transliteration Transformer

This study introduces AyutthayaAlpha, an advanced transformer-based machine learning model designed for the transliteration of Thai proper names into Latin script. Our system achieves state-of-the-art performance with 82…

Data Augmentation for Maltese NLP using Transliterated and Machine Translated Arabic Data

Maltese is a unique Semitic language that has evolved under extensive influence from Romance and Germanic languages, particularly Italian and English. Despite its Semitic roots, its orthography is based on the Latin scri…