1. 1 The Challenges and Pitfalls of Arabic Romanization and Arabization The CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc. المؤسسة المعجمية للغات الشرقية 日中韓辭典研究所 Jack Halpern CEO

2. 2 Automatic Romanizer of Arabic Names ARAN الناقل اللغوي الآلي للأسماء العربي

3. 3 Non-Arabic Name Arabizer NANA نعنع نقل عربي

4. 4 Diphthong Ambiguity for 福井 /fu-ku-i/

5. 5 Long and Short Vowels

6. 6 *Only one popular variant is shown, but in reality there could be dozens. For example, for قابوس AVAN generates Qabuus, Qabus, Qabous, Qabooss, … and many more. Output from ARAN modules

7. 7 ARAN Processing of قابوس /qAbws/

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9. 9 Major Arabic Romanization Systems Example: شولوخ

10. 10 Sample output from ADAN module

11. 11 Variation in Arabic Names

12. 12 MSA Flavors

13. 13 Popular Transcriptions

14. 14 Variation in Arabic Names

15. 15 English-to-Arabic Errors

16. 16 Variants and Errors