The use of information technology forms an integral part of primary and secondary education in many different parts of the world. In the past decade, as the price of software and hardware has become more affordable, there is an increasing interest in applying various communication technologies to support collaborative learning. The introduction of Video-Conferencing Learning Environment (VCLE) ...

This paper presents a solution to the problem of matching personal names in English to the same names represented in Arabic script. Standard string comparison measures perform poorly on this task due to varying transliteration conventions in both languages and the fact that Arabic script does not usually represent short vowels. Significant improvement is achieved by augmenting the classic Leven...