7aneen • حنين

حنين is a mobile keyboard solution that helps Arabs type in Arabizi/English, but text each other purely in Arabic script.

Link to Presentation

http://bit.ly/7aneen2019

Problem Statement

• Typing Arabic literals in keyboards is time consuming and cumbersome for many.
• Many Arabs lose touch with their native language due to reliance on Aribizi/English script.

Solution

Custom mobile keyboard that offers the following main features:

• Transliteration from English/Aribizi to Arabic.
• Smart Arabic Auto-Complete and Sentence Prediction.
• Dialect based personalization.
• Sentiment Analysis for Emotion Recognition and Tone based Emojis.
• Insights into message integrity, structure and semantics.

Software Ingredients

• Java Android Application
• NLP Python NLTK
• Rosetta API
• Repustate API
• Neural Networks

Team Members

• Jayroop Ramesh | American University of Sharjah • [email protected]
• Vikram Sakkia | American University of Sharjah • [email protected]
• Rawand Faraj Deheliah | An-najah University • [email protected]
• Estelle Elizabeth Ocran | NYUAD

Disclaimer: Team members contributed to various parts of the hack. This breakdown is only a generalization.

User Interface, ROSETTA API and REPUSTATE API

• Vikram Sakkia | American University of Sharjah • [email protected]

Android Keyboard, Rudimentary Corpus and n-gram model

• Jayroop Ramesh | American University of Sharjah • [email protected]

Primary/Secondary Research and User Testing

Rawand Faraj Deheliah | An-najah University • [email protected]

• Estelle Elizabeth Ocran | NYUAD

Mentors

• Sama Kanbour | GE • [email protected]
• Mohamad Al Sayadi | IBM • [email protected]

Needs for Demo

• Projector for an Android Phone
• Project laptop for PowerPoint presentation

Link to presentation:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yrRRJvs65wN-Cc0Hp6gWFhlDMUWLtC5B1bbmPZQUfc4/edit#slide=id.g21edff7f63_0_32