A Survey of Automated tools for translating Arab Chat Alphabet into Arabic Language

Abstract

Internet is a global phenomenon in our life. Arab internet users are increasing rapidly. However the tools that help those users’ needs are not fully tolerated to fulfill their requirements. Arab Chat Alphabet (ACA) is created for this reason. Arab users created a new format of the Arabic language; this format uses English letters to express Arabic words. Usually ACA is used in Instant Messaging (IM) and chatting purposes. For this reason it is important to understand the different available tools that write this language and validate the usage of theses tools. The paper’s aim is to report on the survey of the different ACA translation tools and emphasizing the importance of theses tools in other applications like text mining, Information Retrieval and English Arabic translation. An experiment is executed to validate the translation tools, results had shown that Microsoft Maren has the highest accuracy compared to the other tools.