# Arabizi Detection and Conversion to Arabic

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.6755 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1306.6755/

## Key facts

- Cited by 16 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 28 Jun 2013.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Arabizi is Arabic text that is written using Latin characters. Arabizi is used to present both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Arabic dialects. It is commonly used in informal settings such as social networking sites and is often with mixed with English. In this paper we address the problems of: identifying Arabizi in text and converting it to Arabic characters. We used word and sequence-level features to identify Arabizi that is mixed with English. We achieved an identification accuracy of 98.5%. As for conversion, we used transliteration mining with language modeling to generate equivalent Arabic text. We achieved 88.7% conversion accuracy, with roughly a third of errors being spelling and morphological variants of the forms in ground truth.