TY - GEN
T1 - The challenges of Arabic language use on the internet
AU - Albalooshi, Noora
AU - Mohamed, Nader
AU - Al-Jaroodi, Jameela
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The Arabic language is used by a significant percentage of the world's population. Furthermore, beyond personal and public communication within the Arab countries, the Arabic language is becoming very important on the Internet. Numerous documents, resources and applications rely on the language to reach the Arabic speaking audiences. Thus the Arabic language is striving to take its place among the languages supported on Internet such as English, French and Chinese. Efforts are being taken to increase Arabic content, Arabic-based search tools and other models and applications on the Internet. In this paper we offer an overview of the evolution of the Arabic language use on the Internet. There are several obstacles and challenges that the language faces and those need to be resolved efficiently to make the language more usable. Furthermore, we explore how the Arabic language evolution and use on the Internet affects the business world.
AB - The Arabic language is used by a significant percentage of the world's population. Furthermore, beyond personal and public communication within the Arab countries, the Arabic language is becoming very important on the Internet. Numerous documents, resources and applications rely on the language to reach the Arabic speaking audiences. Thus the Arabic language is striving to take its place among the languages supported on Internet such as English, French and Chinese. Efforts are being taken to increase Arabic content, Arabic-based search tools and other models and applications on the Internet. In this paper we offer an overview of the evolution of the Arabic language use on the Internet. There are several obstacles and challenges that the language faces and those need to be resolved efficiently to make the language more usable. Furthermore, we explore how the Arabic language evolution and use on the Internet affects the business world.
KW - Arabic Internet support
KW - Arabic Language
KW - Arabic Web content
KW - language challenges
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84857461921
SN - 9781908320001
T3 - 2011 International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2011
SP - 378
EP - 382
BT - 2011 International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2011
T2 - 2011 International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2011
Y2 - 11 December 2011 through 14 December 2011
ER -