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
  • Pushto
  • 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)
  • Reference 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 Word & 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