A Survey of Automated Tools for ARAB CHAT ALPHABET

Internet is a global phonemena that affects all aspects in our life. Arab internet users are increasing rapidly. However the tools that help those users' needs are not fully tolerated to fulfill their requirements. The growth of the communication between different internet users globally leads to change of the language is used and its format. Arab Chat Alphabet (ACA) is created for this reason. Since the Arabic language is used in a minimum base on the internet, Arab users created a new format of the Arabic language; this format uses English letters to express Arabic words. Usually ACA is used in Instant Messaging (IM) and chatting purposes. For this reason it is important to understand the different available tools that write this language and validate the usage of theses tools. The paper's aim is to report on the survey of the different ACA translation tools and emphasizing the importance of theses tools in other applications like text mining, Information Retrieval and English Arabic translation. An Experiment is executed to validate the translation tools, results had shown that Microsoft Maren tool has the highest accuracy compared to the other tools.