All About Arabic
Interpreting and Understanding Arabic Language Information

9am - 5pm : Monday, November 7, 2005

Welcome and Introduction

• Who's who?
• What do we want from this workshop?

Arabic Culture

• Motivation
• Arabic words used in English
• Current Events
• Risk and sensitivity
• Religion
• Mohammad the prophet
• Islam
• Koran, Sacred Writing
• History
• Arabic history
• Islam
• Non Islam Arabic
• Demographics
  • Where Arabic is used

Arabic Writing System

• Arabic writing
• History of Semitic scripts
• Hebrew script
• Alphabet
• Context Analysis
• Left to right, Right to left
• Diacritics
• Ligatures
• No upper or lower case
• Different Arabic Scripts
• Farsi
• Urdu
• Pustu
• Jawi

Arabic Data Representation

• What are we representing
• Character
• Glyph
• Shape
• An order to Arabic Data
• Visual order
• Logical order
• Coding Arabic Date
• Character sets (CC)
• Reduced codes (RC)
• Glyph indices or display codes (DC)
• Arabic Character Sets
• Unicode
• Legacy Arabic Character Sets
• Catalogue of Arabic Character Sets
• Arabic Fonts
• Different styles of Arabic
• Problems in Windows related to Arabic Fonts
• Getting Arabic fonts that work
• Basic Arabic Input and Output
• Word
• HTML
• Oracle

Arabic Language Processing

• Searching
• Grammar and Words
• Normalization
• Scanning
• OCR Tools
• Speech Recognition
• Storage
• Oracle
• SQL Server
• DB2
• Arabic Machine Translation

Arabic Information Systems

• Usage scenarios
• Arabic in e-mail
• Arabic in Html
• Arabic in PDF
• Arabic in text
• Arabic Data on the web
• GIF
• OCR tools
• Html
• Many character sets
• Unicode vs. local character sets
• Windows
• Demonstration
• input, output, storage with Words & Access
• Windows
• Unix
• Mainframe
• Cell Phones

Doing business in the Arabic World

• Partners
• Sponsors
• Suppliers
• Legal frameworks
• Exclusivity risks and rewards
• Payment and delivery
• Letter of credits
• Example business transactions
• Insights and business experiences

Tools and Technologies

• Tool Capabilities Summary
• Companies involved in Arabization
• I18N
• Basys Technologies
• Globalis
• Translation companies
• Translating to Arabic
• Arabic Solutions
• Full Arabization
• Font only
• Localization into Arabic