Monday, March 29, 2010

Google Tashkeel revealed كشف الستار عن جوجل تشكيل

At the recent Arab Net 2010 conference held in Lebanon, Google revealed a new web tool called Google Tashkeel.


As part as Google's strategy to capitalize on the Arab world's recent boom in internet penetration, Google Labs have created Tashkeel, which is a tool similar to Google's Translate where the user enters Arabic text and the tool adds the suggested 'tashkeel' or Arabic diacritics.

So far, there hasn't been any news of an API release, but when it is released, it will greatly ease the introduction of an intelligent and accurate grammar checker for the Arabic language.

ضمن فعاليات مؤتمر عرب نت الأول الذي أقيم بلبنان مؤخراً، أعلنت شركة جوجل عن إصدار أداة بسم جوجل تشكيل، حيث يستطيع المستخدم أن يدخل نصاً و ينقر زر "تشكيل" لكي يتم إضافة التشكيل و الحركات بشكل تلقائي و سريع.

في الوقت الحالي لم نسمع أي أخبار عن إصدار API خاص لجوجل تشكيل، و لكن في حال اصداره، سنقترب من تحقيق هدفي ألا  و هو تصميم مدقق نحوي ذكي و دقيق لتعزيز و تطوير مستوى و كمية المحتوى العربي على شبكة الانترنت إن شاء الله 

هذا نموذج للتشكيل التلقائي عبر جوجل تشكيل  

 ضِمْنَ فَعَالِيّاتِ مُؤْتَمَرٌ عَرَبِ نِتٍ الْأُوَلِ الَّذِيْ أُقِيْمَ بْلُبْنَانْ مُؤَخَّرَا، أَعْلَنَتْ شَرِكَةُ جُوْجِلْ عَنْ إِصْدَارِ أَدَاةِ بِسْمِ جُوْجِلْ تَشْكِيلُ، حَيْثُ يَسْتَطِيْعُ الْمُسْتَخْدِمُ أَنْ يَدْخُلَ نَصّا وَ يَنْقُرُ زَرَّ "تَشْكِيلُ" لِكَيْ يَتِمَّ إِضَافَةِ الْتَّشْكِيْلِ وَ الْحَرَكَاتِ بِشَكْلٍ تِلْقَائِيٍّ وَ سَرِيْعُ. فِيْ الْوَقْتِ الْحَالِيِّ لَمْ نَسْمَعُ أَيُّ أَخَبَارَ عَنْ إِصْدَارِ API خَاصٌّ لَجُوَجّلَ تَشْكِيلُ، وَ لَكِنْ فِيْ حَالِ اصْدَارِهُ، سَنَقْتَرّبُ مِنْ تَحْقِيْقِ هَدَفَيْ أَلَا وَ هُوَ تَصْمِيْمْ مُدَقِّقٌ نَحْوِيٌّ ذَكِيٌّ وَ دَقِيْقِ لِتَعْزِيزِ وَ تَطْوِيْرْ مُسْتَوِىْ وَ كَمِّيَّةٌ الْمُحْتَوَىْ الْعَرَبِيِّ عَلَىَ شَبَكَةِ الانْتَرْنِتْ إِنِ شَاءَ الْلَّهُ


Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Who to follow on Twitter when it comes to Google Wave?

Twitter as we all know is becoming a great source of real time information, and Google as many other companies are using it to promote and spread their latest updates, tips and tricks. Google Wave and its APIs are still pretty new to a lot of people so one way to gain the best amount of info about them in the quickest way is by Twitter!

Here are a list of a few people/accounts that I've been following and gained a lot from:

1- Pamela Fox: "I help people learn Google APIs, and other fun stuff." She does a lot of work as a Google Wave advocate and gives great tips about using Google Wave's APIs.
http://www.twitter.com/pamelafox

2-Google Wave Dev: "Heyaz! I'm FoxBot. Follow me for updates on news & tips on the Google Wave APIs. ^FB" One of several official Google Wave accounts on Twitter. http://www.twitter.com/googlewavedev

3-Jerome BTN: "I am java programmer who likes photography and humor" Jerome is a French programmer who has recently developed a Google Wave Robot framework making it even easier to create robots in Wave. It's called WadRobotFramework. Follow him to find out the latest additions to his framework and other Java projects.
http://www.twitter.com/wadael

4-iRomin: "Harnessing the power of software by learning, teaching and developing simple solutions." An Indian programmer who has recently written an eBook about some of his experiments with Google App Engine and creating Google Wave robots.
http://www.twitter.com/iRomin

5-GoogleWaveBlog and GWaveInfo: Two more official Twitter accounts but both are much quieter than the ones already mentioned. You can find them both in http://www.twitter.com/GoogleWaveBlog and http://www.twitter.com/GWaveInfo

I will try my best to update this list with more noteworthy accounts, but until then Tweet away!

Friday, March 5, 2010

Preserving the Arabic Language on the Web

This Powerpoint presentation gives some background and statistics about the state of the Arabic language on the web and an introduction to my research ideas.

(Please ignore the first slide!)

Preserving the Arabic Language on the Web

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

The Poor Representation of the Arabic Language on the Web

This short report introduces the problems and poor representation of Arabic websites on the web.
It covers the types of written Arabic on the web, the difficulties in searching on the web and finally innovations trying to combat this problem.

The Poor Representation of Arabic Websites on the Web

Monday, March 1, 2010

Introduction to Google Wave

This report covers the definition of Google Wave, its accounts, functions and an introduction to my research.

Introduction to Google Wave

Welcome to this blog!

I'm Yacoub Al-Slaise, a teacher trainer at the Ministry of Education- Bahrain (where I am from!), currently continuing my higher studies here in Nagoya University, Japan at Yokoi/Yasuda Laboratory reading Social Informatics.

This blog is be a web log (notice where the word blog came from,eh?) of my progress researching how to use Google Wave to create Arabic language tools, predominately a grammar checker and a Holy Quran tool.

Most posts will be an abstract of a progress report with an attached PDF file of the entire report. Please do not pass this work as your own. PLAGIARISM SUCKS!

One of the reasons I have this blog up is a way to find other researchers interested in the same field, so please do not hesitate in contacting me through the following channels:

1- This blog.
2- my email account yslaise [at] gmail or googlewave
3- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/yslaise (write me something in the add friend invite because I will think you are just a random person)
4- Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/yslaise

Hope you all find this blog interesting and useful in your studies/research.