US Patent Issued to HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY on March 31 for "Method and system for diacritizing Arabic text" (Qatari Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,739, issued on March 31, was assigned to HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY (Doha, Qatar).

"Method and system for diacritizing Arabic text" was invented by Hamdy S. Mubarak (Doha, Qatar), Kareem Mohamed Darwish (Doha, Qatar), Ahmed Abdelali (Doha, Qatar), Hassan Sajjad (Doha, Qatar) and Younes Samih (Doha, Qatar).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presently disclosed method and system automatically diacritize written Arabic text for use with applications that require verbalizing Arabic text. A method may comprise converting a written sentence into a word sequence and identifying a target source word. The method then may comprise repeatedly...