%0 Conference Proceedings %T Automatic Transliteration of Proper Nouns from Arabic to English %A Kashani, Mehdi M. %A Popowich, Fred %A Sadat, Fatiha %S Proceedings of the International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT %D 2006 %8 oct 23 %C London, UK %F kashani-etal-2006-automatic %X 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% %U https://aclanthology.org/2006.bcs-1.7 %P 76-83