Third Conference of the Association

Translation and ArabizationRiyadh, 11-13 Muharram 1431- 28-30

December 2009Third Conference - 28-30 December, 2009

KACST Role in TranslationMansour Alghamdi, Faysal Alshuayer,

Abdulrahman Alfadhil, Ali Arishi, Sultan Alghamdi, Eiman Alawdah

KACST Role in Translation: Products

Basm• 28 Years• >450,000 Terminologies• >250 Scientific field

KACST Role in Translation: Products

English-Arabic Translation System• Available for Saudi universities’ staff and students• Translate text and websites

KACST Role in Translation: Products

Translation Management System• Utilizing the worldwide translators to translate content

between languages

KACST Role in Translation: Products

Romanizing Arabic Proper Names• >70,000 proper names• Algorithms to transliterate any Arabic name

KACST Role in Translation: Products

Arabizing English Proper Names• >100,000 proper names• Algorithms to transliterate any phonetically transcribed

English name

KACST Role in Translation: Products

Book Translation

KACST Role in Translation: Products

Arabizing Software Products• Interfaces• Fonts

KACST Role in Translation: Ongoing Projectd

King Abdullah Initiative for Arabic Content

• Open source translation engine and translation memory

• Translating 33 well-recognized scientific books into Arabic

• Designing and developing Arabic electronic games

KACST Role in Translation

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