%0 Conference Proceedings %T A Romanization System and WebMAUS Aligner for Arabic Varieties %A Al-Tamimi, Jalal %A Schiel, Florian %A Khattab, Ghada %A Sokhey, Navdeep %A Amazouz, Djegdjiga %A Dallak, Abdulrahman %A Moussa, Hajar %Y Calzolari, Nicoletta %Y Béchet, Frédéric %Y Blache, Philippe %Y Choukri, Khalid %Y Cieri, Christopher %Y Declerck, Thierry %Y Goggi, Sara %Y Isahara, Hitoshi %Y Maegaard, Bente %Y Mariani, Joseph %Y Mazo, Hélène %Y Odijk, Jan %Y Piperidis, Stelios %S Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference %D 2022 %8 June %I European Language Resources Association %C Marseille, France %F al-tamimi-etal-2022-romanization %X This paper presents the results of an ongoing collaboration to develop an Arabic variety-independent romanization system that aims to homogenize and simplify the romanization of the Arabic script, and introduces an Arabic variety-independent WebMAUS service offering a free to use forced-alignment service fully integrated within the WebMAUS services. We present the rationale for developing such a system, highlighting the need for a detailed romanization system with graphemes corresponding to the phonemic short and long vowels/consonants in Arabic varieties. We describe how the acoustic model was created, followed by several hands-on recipes for applying the forced alignment webservice either online or programatically. Finally, we discuss some of the issues we faced during the development of the system. %U https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.789 %P 7269-7276