Arabic NLP Survey Papers Repository (ASPR) - مستودع الأوراق المسحية في معالجة اللغة العربية (أسبر)

In this repository, we list survey, literature review and systematic review papers for Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP). We complied a list of 200+ papers with their URLs. The list will be updated in a regular basis and volunteers are welcome to contribute.

في هذا المستودع، حاولنا جمع الأوراق المسحية ومراجعة الأدبيات وأوراق المراجعة المنهجية لمعالجة اللغة العربية الطبيعية (NLP). القائمة تضم أكثر من 200 بحثًا مع رابط الوصول للورقة. سيتم تحديث القائمة بشكل دوري ونرحب بمشاركة المتطوعين.

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We didn't review the quality of the listed papers.	لم نعمل على مراجعة جودة الأوراق المدرجة.

Table of Contents

1. General
2. Enabling Tools (Morphology, Diacritization, Grammer, etc.)
3. Text Classification & Mining
4. Named Entity Recognition
5. Question Answering
6. Sentiment Analysis
7. Speech
8. Summarization
9. Conversational AI (Chatbots & Dialogue systems)
10. Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD)
11. Dialects
12. Plagiarism Detection Systems
13. Machine Translation
14. Handwriting Recognition & OCR
15. Offensive Language Detection
16. Fake news and Spam
17. Ontology and Resources
18. Information Retrieval
19. Opinion Mining
20. Knowledge Graph and Topic Modeling
21. Query Expansion
22. Religious Text
23. LLMs
24. Others (Steganography, Transfer Learning, Deep learning, etc.))

General

• Arabic natural language processing: An overview (Link).
• A panoramic survey of natural language processing in the Arab world (Link).
• Recent Advances in NLP: The Case of Arabic Language [Book] (Link).
• A Review Study for Arabic Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods (Link).
• A survey on the state-of-the-art machine learning models in the context of NLP (Link).
• Rule-based approach in Arabic natural language processing (Link).
• Challenges in Arabic Natural Language Processing (Link).

Enabling Tools (Morphology, Diacritization, Grammer, etc.)

• Stemming impact on Arabic text categorization performance: A survey (Link).
• A Survey of Lexical Functional Grammar in the Arabic Context (Link).
• A survey of automatic Arabic diacritization techniques (Link).
• Automatic Methods and Neural Networks in Arabic Texts Diacritization: A Comprehensive Survey (Link).
• A review of morphosyntactic analysers and tag-sets for Arabic corpus linguistics (Link).
• A comparative survey on Arabic stemming: approaches and challenges (Link).
• Neural Computing Based Part of Speech Tagger for Arabic Language: A Review Study (Link).
• Part of speech tagger for Arabic text based support vector machines: A review (Link).
• Hidden Markov Model Tagger for Applications Based Arabic Text: A Review (Link).
• Neural Arabic Text Diacritization: State of the Art Results and a Novel Approach for Machine Translation (Link).
• A Review of Part of Speech Tagger for Arabic Language (Link).
• A Comparative Study of Some Automatic Arabic Text Diacritization Systems (Link).
• Arabic Semantic Similarity Approaches - Review (Link).
• Automatic Methods and Neural Networks in Arabic Texts Diacritization: A Comprehensive Survey (Link).

Text Classification & Mining

• Arabic Text Classification: A Review Study on Feature Selection Methods (Link).
• Arabic Text Classification: A Literature Review (Link).
• Text Classification of Arabic Text: Deep Learning in ANLP (Link).
• Arabic Text Categorization: A Comparison Survey (Link).
• Classifiers for Arabic NLP: survey (Link).
• A Survey of Arabic Text Mining (Link).
• Text Mining Techniques for Sentiment Analysis of Arabic Dialects: Literature Review (Link).
• Classification of Arabic Tweets: A Review (Link).
• Machine Learning Algorithms in Arabic Text Classification: A Review (Link).
• A systematic review of text classification research based ondeep learning models in Arabic language (Link).
• Applications of mining arabic text: A review [Book Chapter] (Link).
• Arabic text classification methods: Systematic literature review of primary studies (Link).
• Computational Mining of Social Media to Curb Terrorism (Link).
• Arabic Text Mining a Systematic Review of the Published Literature 2002-2014 (Link).
• BERT Models for Arabic Text Classification: A Systematic Review (Link).
• Comparative Study on Arabic Text Classification: Challenges and Opportunities (Link).
• Multi-Label Arabic Text Classification: An Overview (Link).
• A systematic review of Arabic text classification: areas, applications, and future directions (Link).
• Arabic documents classification: Overview and systematic review (Link).

Named Entity Recognition

• A Survey of Arabic Named Entity Recognition and Classification (Link).
• A comparative review of machine learning for Arabic named entity recognition (Link).
• A Recent Survey of Arabic Named Entity Recognition on Social Media (Link).
• Arabic Rule-Based Named Entity Recognition Systems Progress and Challenges (Link).
• Statistical Arabic Name Entity Recognition Approaches: A Survey (Link).
• Arabic Named Entity Recognition—A Survey and Analysis (Link).
• A Survey on Arabic Named Entity Recognition: Past, Recent Advances, and Future Trends (Link).
• Advancements in Arabic Named Entity Recognition: A Comprehensive Review (Link).

Quesion Answering

• Arabic question answering system: a survey (Link).
• Arabic Sentiment Analysis: A Systematic Literature Review (Link).
• Arabic Question Answering Systems: Gap Analysis (Link).
• A survey of Arabic question answering: challenges, tasks, approaches, tools, and future trends (Link).
• Arabic Question Answering: Systems, Resources, Tools, and Future Trends (Link).
• Recent Advances and Challenges of Arabic Why Question Answering Systems (Link).
• A Review and Future Perspectives of Arabic Question Answering Systems (Link).
• Ontology-Based Approach to Semantically Enhanced Question Answering for Closed Domain: A Review (Link).
• A comprehensive survey of techniques for developing an Arabic question answering system (Link).
• Challenges and opportunities for Arabic question-answering systems: current techniques and future directions (link).
• A Comprehensive Review of Arabic Question Answering Datasets (Link).
• Deciphering Arabic question: a dedicated survey on Arabic question analysis methods, challenges, limitations and future pathways (Link).

Sentiment Analysis

• Arabic Sentiment Analysis: A Survey (Link).
• A comprehensive survey of arabic sentiment analysis (Link).
• Arabic sentiment analysis using recurrent neural networks: a review (Link).
• Systematic literature review of arabic aspect-based sentiment analysis (Link).
• Arabic Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: A Systematic Literature Review (Link).
• Deep learning for Arabic subjective sentiment analysis: Challenges and research opportunities (Link).
• A comparative study of effective approaches for Arabic sentiment analysis (Link).
• Deep learning in Arabic sentiment analysis: An overview (Link).
• Sentiment Analysis in Dialectal Arabic: A Systematic Review (Link).
• A review of sentiment analysis research in Arabic language (Link).
• Modern trends in Arabic sentiment analysis: A survey (Link).
• A comprehensive study for Arabic sentiment analysis (challenges and applications) (Link).
• Emotion Analysis of Arabic Tweets: Language Models and Available Resources (Link).
• An Overview of Sentiment Analysis with Dialectical Processing (Link).
• The Corpus Based Approach to Sentiment Analysis in Modern Standard Arabic and Arabic Dialects: A Literature Review (Link).
• Sentiment Analysis in Arabic: An Overview (Link).
• Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis of Arabic: A Survey (Link).
• Subjectivity and sentiment analysis of Arabic: Trends and challenges (Link).
• A review on Arabic sentiment analysis: state-of-the-art, taxonomy and open research challenges (Link).
• A Systematic Review for Sentiment Analysis of Arabic Dialect Texts Researches (Link).
• Sentiment analysis in Arabic: A review of the literature (Link).
• Applications of Deep Learning in Arabic Sentiment Analysis: Research Perspective (Link).
• A review on challenging issues in Arabic sentiment analysis (Link).
• A Review of Sentiment Analysis Techniques (Link).
• Sentiment analysis in healthcare: a brief review (Link).
• Arabic Sentiment Analysis Approaches: An Overview (Link).
• Arabic sentiment analysis: studies, resources, and tools (Link).
• Text-based Arabic Emotion Detection Challenges and Effective Approaches: A Review of the State-of-the-Art (Link).
• Recent Advances of Affect Detection from Arabic Text (Link).
• Lexicon-based sentiment analysis of arabic tweets: A survey (Link).
• Sentiment analysis of arabic documents: main challenges and recent advances (Link).
• Sentiment analysis for arabic in social media network: A systematic mapping study (Link).
• An Overview of Word Embedding Models Evaluation for Arabic Sentiment Analysis (Link).
• Sentiment Analysis of Arabic Sequential Data Using Traditional and Deep Learning: A Review (Link).
• A survey of Arabic thematic sentiment analysis based on topic modeling (Link).
• A Systematic Literature Review of Arabic Dialect Sentiment Analysis (Link).
• Lexicon annotation in sentiment analysis for dialectal Arabic: Systematic review of current trends and future directions (Link).
• Opinion mining for Arabic dialect in social media data fusion platforms: A systematic review (link).
• Natural Language Processing for Arabic Sentiment Analysis: A Systematic Literature Review. (link).
• Survey on Arabic speech emotion recognition. (link).
• Resources Building for Arabic Harmful Online Content: Survey (link).

Speech

• Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition: A Systematic Literature Review (Link).
• Deep Investigation of the Recent Advances in Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition (Link).
• Arabic Speech Processing: State of the Art and Future Outlook (Link).
• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Systems for Learning Arabic Language and Al-Quran Recitation: A Review (Link).
• Arabic Speech Recognition with Deep Learning: A Review (Link).
• End-to-End Arabic Speech Recognition: A Review (Link).
• Arabic Speech Recognition: Challenges and State of the Art [Book Chapter] (Link).
• The Challenges of Developing a Living Arabic Phonetic Dictionary for Speech Recognition System: A Literature Review (Link).
• Literature Survey of Arabic Speech Recognition (Link).
• Advancements in Arabic Text-to-Speech Systems: A 22-Year Literature Review (Link).
• Modern Standard Arabic Speech Corpora: A Systematic Review (Link).
• Arabic Speech Recognition: Advancement and Challenges (Link).

Summarization

• A Comprehensive Review of Arabic Text Summarization (Link).
• Automatic arabic text summarization (AATS): A survey (Link).
• Recent Advances in Arabic Automatic Text Summarization (Link).
• Text summarization: a brief review (Link).
• Automatic Arabic text summarization: a survey (Link).
• Deep Transformer Language Models for Arabic Text Summarization: A Comparison Study (Link).
• Arabic Text Summarization Challenges using Deep Learning Techniques: A Review (Link).
• Exploring Advances in Arabic Long-Text Summarization Strategies: A Survey (Link).

Conversational AI (Chatbots & Dialogue systems)

• Recent Developments in Arabic Conversational AI: A Literature Review (Link).
• Empathy and Persona of English vs. Arabic Chatbots: A Survey and Future Directions (Link).
• Arabic chatbot technologies: A scoping review (Link).
• Arabic Chatbots: A Survey (Link).
• Support of existing chatbot development framework for Arabic language: a brief survey (Link).
• A Review of Arabic Intelligent Chatbots: Developments and Challenges (Link).
• A Survey of Arabic Dialogues Understanding for Spontaneous Dialogues and Instant Message (Link).
• Arabic Chatbots Challenges and Solutions: A Systematic Literature Review (Link).

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD)

• A comprehensive review on Arabic word sense disambiguation for natural language processing applications (Link).
• Arabic word sense disambiguation: a review (Link).
• Arabic Word Sense Disambiguation - Survey (Link).

Dialects

• Systematic Literature Review of Dialectal Arabic: Identification and Detection (Link).
• Natural Language Processing for Dialectical Arabic: A Survey (Link).
• Language resources for Maghrebi Arabic dialects’ NLP: a survey (Link).
• Maghrebi Arabic dialect processing: an overview (Link).
• An Overview of Sentiment Analysis with Dialectical Processing (Link).
• A Systematic Review for Sentiment Analysis of Arabic Dialect Texts Researches (Link).
• Automatic Arabic Dialect Identification Systems for Written Texts: A Survey ([Link] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12622)).

Plagiarism Detection Systems

• A Survey of Plagiarism Detection Systems: Case of Use with English, French and Arabic Languages (Link).
• Plagiarism Detection Techniques for Arabic Script Languages: A Literature Review (Link).

Machine Translation

• Arabic Machine Translation: A Survey With Challenges and Future Directions (Link).
• Machine translation for Arabic dialects (survey) (Link).
• Arabic machine translation: a survey (Link).
• Arabic machine translation: A survey of the latest trends and challenges (Link).
• Neural Arabic Text Diacritization: State of the Art Results and a Novel Approach for Machine Translation (Link).
• Survey of Arabic Machine Translation, Methodologies, Progress, and Challenges (Link).
• Survey of the Arabic Machine Translation Corpora (Link).
• Arabic Machine Translation: A Panoramic Survey (link).
• Challenges in Rendering Arabic text to English using Machine Translation: A Systematic Literature Review (link).
• A Survey on Machine Translation of Low-Resource Arabic Dialects (link).

Handwriting Recognition & OCR

• A Survey on Arabic Handwritten Script Recognition Systems (Link).
• Automatic recognition of handwritten Arabic characters: a comprehensive review (Link).
• Offline arabic handwritten text recognition: A Survey (Link).
• Arabic Online Handwriting Recognition (AOHR): A Survey (Link).
• Arabic Character Recognition: Progress and Challenges (Link).
• Arabic character recognition: a survey (Link).
• Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition Using Deep Machine Learning: A Review of Recent Advances (Link).
• Arabic optical character recognition software: A review (Link).
• A Survey of OCR in Arabic Language: Applications, Techniques, and Challenges (Link).
• Arabic Handwritten Text Recognition Systems Challenges and Opportunities (Link).
• Advancements and Challenges in Arabic Optical Character Recognition: A Comprehensive Survey (Link).

Offensive Language Detection

• A Survey of Offensive Language Detection for the Arabic Language (Link).
• Cyberbullying Classification Methods for Arabic: A Systematic Review (Link).
• Detecting Arabic textual threats in social media using artificial intelligence: An overview (Link).
• From Machine Learning to Deep Learning for Detecting Abusive Messages in Arabic Social Media: Survey and Challenges (Link).
• Automatic Detection of Cyberbullying and Abusive Language in Arabic Content on Social Networks: A Survey (Link).
• Toxic language detection: a systematic survey of Arabic datasets (Link).
• A Comprehensive Survey on Arabic Sarcasm Detection: Approaches, Challenges and Future Trends. (Link).
• A systematic literature review of hate speech identification on Arabic Twitter data: research challenges and future directions. (Link).

Fake news and Spam

• Arabic Fake News and Spam Handling: Methods, Resources and Opportunities (Link).
• A systematic literature review on phishing email detection using natural language processing techniques (Link).
• Arabic Fake News Detection: A Fact Checking Based Deep Learning Approach (Link).
• A Survey: Datasets and Methods for Arabic Fake News Detection (Link).
• Survey of machine learning techniques for Arabic fake news detection (Link).
• A Review of Fake News Detection Techniques for Arabic Language (Link).

Ontology and Resources

• Arabic NLP tools for ontology construction from Arabic text: An overview (Link).
• Critical Survey of the Freely Available Arabic Corpora (Link).
• Freely Available Arabic Corpora: A Scoping Review (Link).
• Applying ontological engineering approach for Arabic Quran corpus: A comprehensive survey (Link).
• Arabic Quranic Search Tool Based on Ontology (Link).
• An Overview of Ontology Learning Process from Arabic Text (Link).
• Ontology-Based Approach to Semantically Enhanced Question Answering for Closed Domain: A Review (Link).
• Semantic Relations Extraction and Ontology Learning from Arabic Texts—A Survey (Link).
• Arabic ontology engineering-challenges and opportunities (Link).

Information Retrieval

• Arabic Cross-Language Information Retrieval: A Review (Link).
• Current Approaches in Arabic IR: A Survey (Link).
• Automatic Indexing of Arabic Texts: State of the Art (Link).
• Arabic Information Retrieval: A Relevancy Assessment Survey (Link).

Opinion Mining

• A Survey of Opinion Mining in Arabic: A Comprehensive System Perspective Covering Challenges and Advances in Tools, Resources, Models, Applications, and Visualizations (Link).
• A review of recent aspect extraction techniques for opinion mining systems (Link).

Knowledge Graph and Topic Modeling

• Arabic Knowledge Graph Construction: A close look in the present and into the future (Link).
• The Arabic Knowledge Graph: Opportunities and Challenges (Link).
• Topic Modeling on Arabic Language Dataset: Comparative Study (Link).

Query Expansion

• Arabic Query Expansion: A Review (Link).
• Survey of Automatic Query Expansion for Arabic Text Retrieval (Link).

Religious Text

• Computational and natural language processing based studies of hadith literature: a survey (Link).
• A review of Quranic computation for e-learning (Link).
• Arabic Quranic Search Tool Based on Ontology (Link).
• Question Answering Systems on Holy Quran: A Review of Existing Frameworks, Approaches, Algorithms and Research Issues (Link).
• Arabic Text Clustering Methods and Suggested Solutions for Theme-Based Quran Clustering: Analysis of Literature (Link).
• Quranic Computation: A Review of Research and Application (Link).
• Hadith Text Classification: A Literature Review (Link).
• Information Reliability Evaluation: From Arabic Storytelling to Computer Sciences (Link).
• On the Usage of a Classical Arabic Corpus as a Language Resource: Related Research and Key Challenges (Link).
• Digital Hadith authentication: Recent advances, open challenges, and future directions (Link).
• A Review of Algorithms, Datasets, and Criteria in Word Sense Disambiguation With a View to its Use in Islamic Texts (Link).
• Arabic natural language processing for Qur’anic research: a systematic review (Link).
• The utilization of machine learning on studying Hadith in Islam: A systematic literature review (Link).

LLMs

• A Survey of Large Language Models for Arabic Language and its Dialects (Link).

Others (Steganography, Transfer Learning, Deep learning, etc.)

• ARABIC TEXT WATERMARKING: A REVIEW (Link).
• A Review of Arabic Text Steganography (Link).
• A Comparative Analysis of Arabic Text Steganography (Link).
• A Survey on Transfer Learning in Natural Language Processing (Link).
• Deep learning for Arabic NLP: A survey (Link).
• Graph-based Arabic NLP Techniques: A Survey (Link).
• A Survey and Comparative Study of Arabic NLP Architectures (Link).
• The Use of Hidden Markov Model in Natural ARABIC Language Processing: a survey (Link).
• Arabic Readability Research: Current State and Future Directions (Link).
• Research Trends in the Fields of Arabic Natural Language Processing Tasks and Arabic Information Extraction Applications: A Survey Study (Link).
• Arabic Topic Identification: A Decade Scoping Review (Link).
• Arabic Domain Terminology Extraction: A Literature Review (Link).
• Semantic similarity for english and arabic texts: a review (Link).
• Automatic Arabic sign language recognition: A review, taxonomy, open challenges, research roadmap and future directions (Link).
• Improving the reliability of deep neural networks in NLP: A review (Link).
• Arabic Automatic Essay Scoring Systems: An Overview Study (Link).
• Arabic relation extraction: a survey (Link).
• Automatic Translation from Arabic to Arabic Sign Language: A Review (Link).
• Arabic Web page clustering: A review (Link).
• Towards Author Profiling from Modern Standard Arabic Texts: A Review (Link).
• Survey of Authorship Identification Tasks on Arabic Texts (Link).
• A Survey and Comparative Study of Arabic Diacritization Tools (Link).
• Deep Learning Architectures Applied on Arabic-Adapted Scripts: A Review (Link).
• A Systematic Review of Sentiment Analysis in Arabizi (Link).
• A Revised Survey of Paraphrasing Generation Approaches and Tools for Arabic (Link).
• Arabic text detection: a survey of recent progress challenges and opportunities. (link).
• Analysis and Mining of Arabic Comparative Sentences: A Literature Review. (link).
• Word embedding as a semantic feature extraction technique in arabic natural language processing: an overview. (link).
• Natural Language Processing Approaches to Text Data Augmentation: A Computational Linguistic Analysis (link).
• Arabic Text Formality Modification: A Review and Future Research Directions. (link).