@inproceedings{kashani-etal-2006-automatic,
    title = "Automatic Transliteration of Proper Nouns from {A}rabic to {E}nglish",
    author = "Kashani, Mehdi M.  and
      Popowich, Fred  and
      Sadat, Fatiha",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT",
    month = oct # " 23",
    year = "2006",
    address = "London, UK",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest_wac_2008/2006.bcs-1.7/",
    pages = "76--83",
    abstract = "After providing a brief introduction to the transliteration problem, and highlighting some issues specific to Arabic to English translation, a three phase algorithm is introduced as a computational solution to the problem. The algorithm is based on a Hidden Markov Model approach, but also leverages information available in on-line databases. The algorithm is then evaluated, and shown to achieve accuracy approaching .80{\%}"
}