King Abdullah

Initiative for Arabic Content

Riyadh

2012

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Presentation Content:

• Arabic language history• Arabic language geography• Vision and key objectives.• Enriching language digital content• Initiative’s role in enriching Arabic content

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Arabic language: Historyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language

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• One of the oldest human languages for more than 17 centuries

ArabicEnglishMandarin

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Arabic language: Geographyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language

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• Spoken by 374 millions• Area of 13.3 million km2

• Official language for 22 countries

8th -15th century

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Vision“To drive the transformation of Saudi Arabia into a knowledge society, and

establishing the Kingdom’s leading role in the Arabic & Islamic digital world.”

Key objectives• Preserve and share the country’s Arabic and Islamic identity and digital heritage.

• Make digital content a driver of growth and innovation in the Saudi economy.

• Ensure that all segments of society have easy access to digital information and

opportunities.

• Promote a Pan-Arab partnership in digital content development.

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King Abdullah Initiative for Arabic Content

Enriching Digital Arabic Content

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Software literacy, culture

Hardware

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Enriching Digital Arabic Content: Human resources

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• Saudi Ministry of Education• Saudi Ministry of Higher

Education• Bahrain• Lebanon• Syria• Egypt• Tunisia• Algeria• Morocco• Japan• United States• Germany• United Kingdom

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Enriching Digital Arabic Content: Culture

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• Workshops• Seminars• Conferences• Awards• Support

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• In Arabic (Bilarabi) Workshop (Beirut),• Mobily Conference for the Development of Cell Phone Applications (Riyadh), • First Conference for Enhancing Alternative Communication (Riyadh), • Conference for the Role of Human Language Technology in Development (Alexandria), • Meeting for Computer Tools (Damascus), • Workshop for a Knowledge-Based Society (Bahrain), • Third National Conference for Information Technology: Arabic and Islamic Content on the Internet (Riyadh), • King Fahd Complex Meeting of the Most Famous International Holy Qur’an Calligraphers (Almadinah), • Conference for Arabic Content on the Internet: Opportunities and Challenges (Riyadh), • Encounters of Computational Linguistics (Riyadh), • Second Meeting for Information Technology (Riyadh), • Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (Lancaster), • Sixth International Forum on Computer Science and Engineering (Hammamet), • International Conference on Image and Signal Processing (Riyadh), • Workshop on the Enrichment of Arabic Digital Content (Damascus), • Symposium on the Criteria for the Transcription of Arabic Names: Challenges and Solutions (Abu Dhabi), • Symposium on the Holy Qur’an and Modern Technologies (Almadinah), • Second Conference on the Resources of the Arabic Language and Its Tools (Cairo), • Fifth International Conference on Creativity in Information Technology (Al Ain), the International Conference on Smart Systems (Bahrain), • Workshop on Linguistics Applications (Athens), • Fourth International Symposium on Image and Video Communication Through Fixed and Mobile Networks (Bilbao), • International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision and Automatic Recognition of Shapes (Las Vegas), • International Workshop on Signal Processing and Its Applications (Shariqa), • International Conference on Communication and Sound Signal Processing (Dubai), • Specialists Meeting on the Arabic Computer Dictionary (Damascus)

Enriching Digital Arabic Content: Events

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German Saudi Arabia Brazil Turki

Enriching Digital Arabic Content: Hardware

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Saudi Arabia

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Brazil

Turki

Germany

Brazil

Saudi Arabia

Turki

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Enriching Digital Arabic Content: Software

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• Arabic morphologizer (Alkhalil)

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• Search engine (Naba)

• Essay scorer (Abbir)

• Machine translation engine

Enriching Digital Arabic Content: Software

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• Arabic grammatical analyzer

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• Braille script copy machine

• Arabic Email system

Enriching Digital Arabic Content: Software

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• KACST Arabic Corpus

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• Interactive Arabic Dictionary

• KACST Fonts

• Databases

• Speech• Diacritized text• Handwritten and Printed Pages

Digital Arabic Content: content

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• King Abdullah Encyclopedia for Health Content

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• Books

• Multimedia production

• Saleem

• Knol

• Web magazines

Digital Arabic Content: content

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• Books on strategic technologies

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• Nature magazine

• Science & vie magazine

• Wikiarabi 1

• Wikiarabi 2

Digital Arabic Content: Fundamentals, Laws & Regulations

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• MCI

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• MCIT

• CITC

• KACST

Digital Arabic Content: good indications

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Arabic,

Chinese,

English,

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Internet Penetration & Growth Rate

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Internet penetration rate

Developed world

Developing world

Digital Arabic Content: good indications

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SAUDI ARABIA

195

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Developed world

Developing world

Mobile penetration rate

Digital Arabic Content: good indications

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0.3% at the launch of the initiative

2% 2011 (Google)

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Arabic content on the web

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54% of browsers in the Arab world look for information in Arabic (34% English, 8% French, 4% others).

80% of browsers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia look for information in Arabic.

Digital Arabic Content: Users

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