Authority Control of Arabic Personal Names: RDA and Beyond

Arabic Script Internationalized Domain Names

Top-Level Arabic Domain Names

Internet domain names (i.e., web site addresses) are still written using English characters regardless of the worldwide spread of the Internet. Currently, domain names do not support other languages for one to locate resources on the Internet. Users in non-English speaking countries, such as the Arabs, are disadvantaged. Multilingual domain names have been the goal and activities of many not-fo...

Arabic Domain Names: Analysis & Solution

In this paper we presented technical study and security assessment that may threat the Arabic Domains in the new proposed multilingual domains (International domain Names IDN). We analyzed the Unicode Script (in particular the Arabic Scripts) and showed how vulnerable the proposed solution will be, then we presented suggestions for improved solution to be adapted to avoid future security risk w...

Semantic Transliteration of Personal Names

Words of foreign origin are referred to as borrowed words or loanwords. A loanword is usually imported to Chinese by phonetic transliteration if a translation is not easily available. Semantic transliteration is seen as a good tradition in introducing foreign words to Chinese. Not only does it preserve how a word sounds in the source language, it also carries forward the word's original semanti...

Approximate String Matching for Geographic Names and Personal Names

The problem of matching strings allowing errors has recently gained importance, considering the increasing volume of online textual data. In geotechnologies, approximate string matching algorithms find many applications, such as gazetteers, address matching, and geographic information retrieval. This paper presents a novel method for approximate string matching, developed for the recognition of...