Re: What Does ???? means in Arabic

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at accessme dot com>]

Agree ..
  We could make a simple English-Arabic Terms Reference Table ( I prefer 
calling it that than dictionary because a dictionary will give meanings, 
while the table gives terms) .. and make this table in a File that we can 
access in CVS so all the contributions could be added, and then the 
administrators chooses what updates to take what to reject ..

        Or you could make a new mailing list that deals with the terms .. 
and this mailing list will produce this table.. those who is interested in 
finding the proper terms , and those who have good enlgish/arabic language 
could join in to help.. so even people who are not in the doc list can join 
the terms list to help in ..

        I am very excited about it now .. I have a holiday for 1 month, 
and I am willing to give alot in this month.. if we are going to spend the 
month deciding what text editor to use, we will never get there .. please 
Mohammed, I know that you are probably busy with 100000 things .. but we 
are anxiously waiting :)

                Yours
                        Isam Bayazidi

At 11:31 AM 30/08/01 -0400, you wrote:
> Agreed.  There is a previous work: the Encyclopedia of Computer Terms
> (English-Arabic) by Alam E. Hammad; American Global Publishing;
> ISBN: 1-881453-70-7.
>
> A few thoughts:
>
> - Copyright
>
> Since we want the dictionary to be in the public domain, we
> should avoid any infringement on Hammad and other published commercial
> dictionary writer.  I suggest that we do this by multi sourcing and
> aggregating the translation and avoiding descriptive dictionary
> context.
>
> - One to one?
>
> We have to decide if the computer dictionary will provide one to one
> mapping for deterministic translation or one to many with a prefered
> choice, to make the computer dictionary serve a wider audience.
> It could certainly start as one to one.
>
> - Multilingual
>
> We probably need to concentrate on English to Arabic as the base project
> and leave other languages to Arabic (computer terms) as future extensions.
>
> - Mechanics
>
> It would be easiest to create a database with a web enabled front end to
> allow anyone to inject translations (even from individuals outside arabeyes,
> leverage the Arab speaking cyberspace).  To keep the database clean, we need
> editors to approve submitted material.  We can then issue periodical updates
> including new material and revisions for discussion and then revise or
> finalize updates after a waiting period based on feedback.
>
> bassem
>
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