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A curated collection of survey, literature review, and systematic review papers for Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP).
مجموعة منتقاة من الأوراق المسحية ومراجعة الأدبيات وأوراق المراجعة المنهجية لمعالجة اللغة العربية الطبيعية
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| # | Category | التصنيف |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | General | عام |
| 2 | Enabling Tools | الأدوات الأساسية |
| 3 | Text Classification & Mining | تصنيف النصوص |
| 4 | Named Entity Recognition | التعرف على الكيانات المسماة |
| 5 | Question Answering | الإجابة عن الأسئلة |
| 6 | Sentiment Analysis | تحليل المشاعر |
| 7 | Speech | معالجة الكلام |
| 8 | Summarization | التلخيص |
| 9 | Conversational AI | الذكاء الاصطناعي الحواري |
| 10 | Word Sense Disambiguation | إزالة الغموض الدلالي |
| 11 | Dialects | اللهجات |
| 12 | Plagiarism Detection | كشف الانتحال |
| 13 | Machine Translation | الترجمة الآلية |
| 14 | Handwriting Recognition & OCR | التعرف على الخط |
| 15 | Offensive Language Detection | كشف اللغة المسيئة |
| 16 | Fake News & Spam | الأخبار الكاذبة |
| 17 | Ontology & Resources | الأنطولوجيا والموارد |
| 18 | Information Retrieval | استرجاع المعلومات |
| 19 | Opinion Mining | تنقيب الآراء |
| 20 | Knowledge Graph & Topic Modeling | الرسم البياني المعرفي |
| 21 | Query Expansion | توسيع الاستعلام |
| 22 | Religious Text | النصوص الدينية |
| 23 | LLMs | النماذج اللغوية الكبيرة |
| 24 | Deep Learning & Neural Architectures | التعلم العميق والمعماريات العصبية |
| 25 | Information Extraction | استخلاص المعلومات |
| 26 | Sign Language | لغة الإشارة |
| 27 | Authorship & Readability | تأليف النص والقابلية للقراءة |
| 28 | Lexical & Semantic Resources | الموارد المعجمية والدلالية |
| 29 | Text Steganography & Watermarking | إخفاء النصوص والعلامة المائية |
| 30 | Text Processing & Generation | معالجة النصوص وتوليدها |
| 31 | Specialized Applications | التطبيقات المتخصصة |
2026
- Why Current XAI Is Not Enough for Arabic NLP: A Critical Survey of the Explainability Gap (Link)
2025
- Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP): A Comprehensive Review of Challenges, Techniques, and Emerging Trends (Link)
2023
- Rule-based approach in Arabic natural language processing (Link)
2022
- A Review Study for Arabic Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods (Link)
2021
- A panoramic survey of natural language processing in the Arab world (Link)
2020
- Recent Advances in NLP: The Case of Arabic Language [Book] (Link)
2018
- Arabic natural language processing: An overview (Link)
- Challenges in Arabic Natural Language Processing (Link)
2016
- A survey on the state-of-the-art machine learning models in the context of NLP (Link)
2022
- A Survey of Lexical Functional Grammar in the Arabic Context (Link)
- A Review of Part of Speech Tagger for Arabic Language (Link)
- A Comparative Study of Some Automatic Arabic Text Diacritization Systems (Link)
2021
- Automatic Methods and Neural Networks in Arabic Texts Diacritization: A Comprehensive Survey (Link)
2019
- 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)
2018
- Neural Computing Based Part of Speech Tagger for Arabic Language: A Review Study (Link)
- Arabic Semantic Similarity Approaches - Review (Link)
2017
- A comparative survey on Arabic stemming: approaches and challenges (Link)
- A Survey and Comparative Study of Arabic Diacritization Tools (Link)
2015
- Stemming impact on Arabic text categorization performance: A survey (Link)
- A review of morphosyntactic analysers and tag-sets for Arabic corpus linguistics (Link)
2013
- A survey of automatic Arabic diacritization techniques (Link)
2025
- Data augmentation for Arabic text classification: a review of current methods, challenges and prospective directions (Link)
2023
- A systematic review of Arabic text classification: areas, applications, and future directions (Link)
- Arabic documents classification: Overview and systematic review (Link)
2022
- BERT Models for Arabic Text Classification: A Systematic Review (Link)
- Comparative Study on Arabic Text Classification: Challenges and Opportunities (Link)
2021
- 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)
- Text Mining Techniques for Sentiment Analysis of Arabic Dialects: Literature Review (Link)
- Classification of Arabic Tweets: A Review (Link)
2020
- Classifiers for Arabic NLP: survey (Link)
- A systematic review of text classification research based on deep learning models in Arabic language (Link)
- Applications of mining arabic text: A review [Book Chapter] (Link)
- Multi-Label Arabic Text Classification: An Overview (Link)
2019
- Machine Learning Algorithms in Arabic Text Classification: A Review (Link)
- Computational Mining of Social Media to Curb Terrorism (Link)
2017
- A Survey of Arabic Text Mining (Link)
2016
- Arabic text classification methods: Systematic literature review of primary studies (Link)
2015
- Arabic Text Mining a Systematic Review of the Published Literature 2002-2014 (Link)
2024
- Advancements in Arabic Named Entity Recognition: A Comprehensive Review (Link)
2023
- A Survey on Arabic Named Entity Recognition: Past, Recent Advances, and Future Trends (Link)
2020
- A Recent Survey of Arabic Named Entity Recognition on Social Media (Link)
2017
- A comparative review of machine learning for Arabic named entity recognition (Link)
- Arabic Rule-Based Named Entity Recognition Systems Progress and Challenges (Link)
- Statistical Arabic Name Entity Recognition Approaches: A Survey (Link)
2016
- Arabic Named Entity Recognition—A Survey and Analysis (Link)
2014
- A Survey of Arabic Named Entity Recognition and Classification (Link)
2026
- Commonsense question answering in Arabic: A survey of models, challenges, and future directions (Link)
2024
- Deciphering Arabic question: a dedicated survey on Arabic question analysis methods, challenges, limitations and future pathways (Link)
2023
- 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)
2021
- Arabic question answering system: a survey (Link)
- Arabic Question Answering Systems: Gap Analysis (Link)
- Recent Advances and Challenges of Arabic Why Question Answering Systems (Link)
- Ontology-Based Approach to Semantically Enhanced Question Answering for Closed Domain: A Review (Link)
2016
- A Review and Future Perspectives of Arabic Question Answering Systems (Link)
2014
- A survey of Arabic question answering: challenges, tasks, approaches, tools, and future trends (Link)
- Arabic Question Answering: Systems, Resources, Tools, and Future Trends (Link)
2024
- A Review of Sentiment Analysis Techniques (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)
2023
- 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)
- A Systematic Review of Sentiment Analysis in Arabizi (Link)
2022
- Arabic Sentiment Analysis: A Survey (Link)
- Systematic literature review of arabic aspect-based sentiment analysis (Link)
- Emotion Analysis of Arabic Tweets: Language Models and Available Resources (Link)
- Sentiment analysis of arabic documents: main challenges and recent advances (Link)
- An Overview of Word Embedding Models Evaluation for Arabic Sentiment Analysis (Link)
- Opinion mining for Arabic dialect in social media data fusion platforms: A systematic review (Link)
2021
- Arabic sentiment analysis using recurrent neural networks: a review (Link)
- Arabic Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: A Systematic Literature Review (Link)
- Sentiment Analysis in Dialectal Arabic: A Systematic Review (Link)
- An Overview of Sentiment Analysis with Dialectical Processing (Link)
- A Systematic Review for Sentiment Analysis of Arabic Dialect Texts Researches (Link)
- Text-based Arabic Emotion Detection Challenges and Effective Approaches: A Review of the State-of-the-Art (Link)
- Sentiment Analysis of Arabic Sequential Data Using Traditional and Deep Learning: A Review (Link)
2020
- Deep learning for Arabic subjective sentiment analysis: Challenges and research opportunities (Link)
- A comparative study of effective approaches for Arabic sentiment analysis (Link)
- A review of sentiment analysis research in Arabic language (Link)
- Sentiment Analysis in Arabic: An Overview (Link)
- Applications of Deep Learning in Arabic Sentiment Analysis: Research Perspective (Link)
- Arabic Sentiment Analysis Approaches: An Overview (Link)
2019
- Deep learning in Arabic sentiment analysis: An overview (Link)
- A comprehensive study for Arabic sentiment analysis (challenges and applications) (Link)
- A review on Arabic sentiment analysis: state-of-the-art, taxonomy and open research challenges (Link)
- Sentiment analysis in healthcare: a brief review (Link)
- Arabic sentiment analysis: studies, resources, and tools (Link)
- Recent Advances of Affect Detection from Arabic Text (Link)
- Sentiment analysis for arabic in social media network: A systematic mapping study (Link)
- A survey of Arabic thematic sentiment analysis based on topic modeling (Link)
2018
- Modern trends in Arabic sentiment analysis: A survey (Link)
- The Corpus Based Approach to Sentiment Analysis in Modern Standard Arabic and Arabic Dialects: A Literature Review (Link)
2017
- Sentiment analysis in Arabic: A review of the literature (Link)
2016
- A comprehensive survey of arabic sentiment analysis (Link)
- A review on challenging issues in Arabic sentiment analysis (Link)
2015
- Lexicon-based sentiment analysis of arabic tweets: A survey (Link)
2014
- Subjectivity and sentiment analysis of Arabic: Trends and challenges (Link)
2012
- Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis of Arabic: A Survey (Link)
2026
- Automatic speech recognition and dialect identification for Arabic and Saudi dialects: a systematic literature review (Link)
- Arabic speech emotion recognition (2015–2024): a systematic review of datasets, dialects, and classification methods (Link)
2025
- Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition: A Systematic Literature Review (Link)
- Arabic speech recognition using neural networks: concepts, literature review and challenges (Link)
- A Review of Speech Recognition and Application to Arabic Speech Recognition (Link)
- Arabic dialects speech corpora: A systematic review (Link)
2024
- Arabic Speech Recognition: Advancement and Challenges (Link)
2023
- Advancements in Arabic Text-to-Speech Systems: A 22-Year Literature Review (Link)
- Modern Standard Arabic Speech Corpora: A Systematic Review (Link)
2022
- Deep Investigation of the Recent Advances in Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition (Link)
- Arabic Speech Processing: State of the Art and Future Outlook (Link)
2021
- Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Systems for Learning Arabic Language and Al-Quran Recitation: A Review (Link)
- The Challenges of Developing a Living Arabic Phonetic Dictionary for Speech Recognition System: A Literature Review (Link)
2020
- End-to-End Arabic Speech Recognition: A Review (Link)
2019
- Arabic Speech Recognition with Deep Learning: A Review (Link)
2018
- Arabic Speech Recognition: Challenges and State of the Art [Book Chapter] (Link)
- Literature Survey of Arabic Speech Recognition (Link)
2024
- Arabic Text Summarization Challenges using Deep Learning Techniques: A Review (Link)
- Exploring Advances in Arabic Long-Text Summarization Strategies: A Survey (Link)
2022
- A Comprehensive Review of Arabic Text Summarization (Link)
- Automatic arabic text summarization (AATS): A survey (Link)
- Deep Transformer Language Models for Arabic Text Summarization: A Comparison Study (Link)
2021
- Recent Advances in Arabic Automatic Text Summarization (Link)
2019
- Text summarization: a brief review (Link)
2015
- Automatic Arabic text summarization: a survey (Link)
2024
- Arabic Chatbots Challenges and Solutions: A Systematic Literature Review (Link)
2022
- 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)
- A Review of Arabic Intelligent Chatbots: Developments and Challenges (Link)
2018
- Arabic Chatbots: A Survey (Link)
- Support of existing chatbot development framework for Arabic language: a brief survey (Link)
2015
- A Survey of Arabic Dialogues Understanding for Spontaneous Dialogues and Instant Message (Link)
2024
- Arabic Word Sense Disambiguation - Survey (Link)
2022
- A comprehensive review on Arabic word sense disambiguation for natural language processing applications (Link)
2018
- Arabic word sense disambiguation: a review (Link)
2025
- A Survey on Dialect Arabic Processing and Analysis: Recent Advances and Future Trends (Link)
- A Survey of Natural Language Processing for Classification of Saudi Arabic Dialect: Advancements, Opportunities, and Challenges (Link)
2021
- Systematic Literature Review of Dialectal Arabic: Identification and Detection (Link)
- An Overview of Sentiment Analysis with Dialectical Processing (Link)
- A Systematic Review for Sentiment Analysis of Arabic Dialect Texts Researches (Link)
2020
- Language resources for Maghrebi Arabic dialects' NLP: a survey (Link)
- Automatic Arabic Dialect Identification Systems for Written Texts: A Survey (Link)
2017
- Maghrebi Arabic dialect processing: an overview (Link)
2015
- Natural Language Processing for Dialectical Arabic: A Survey (Link)
2022
- A Survey of Plagiarism Detection Systems: Case of Use with English, French and Arabic Languages (Link)
2017
- Plagiarism Detection Techniques for Arabic Script Languages: A Literature Review (Link)
2024
- A Survey on Machine Translation of Low-Resource Arabic Dialects (Link)
2023
- Arabic Machine Translation: A Panoramic Survey (Link)
- Challenges in Rendering Arabic text to English using Machine Translation: A Systematic Literature Review (Link)
2022
- Survey of Arabic Machine Translation, Methodologies, Progress, and Challenges (Link)
- Survey of the Arabic Machine Translation Corpora (Link)
2021
- Arabic Machine Translation: A Survey With Challenges and Future Directions (Link)
2020
- Arabic machine translation: A survey of the latest trends and challenges (Link)
2019
- Neural Arabic Text Diacritization: State of the Art Results and a Novel Approach for Machine Translation (Link)
2016
- Machine translation for Arabic dialects (survey) (Link)
2012
- Arabic machine translation: a survey (Link)
2026
- Handwritten Arabic Text Recognition: A Review of Recent Trends and Future Direction (Link)
2025
- Advancements and Challenges in Arabic Optical Character Recognition: A Comprehensive Survey (Link)
2023
- A Survey of OCR in Arabic Language: Applications, Techniques, and Challenges (Link)
- Arabic Handwritten Text Recognition Systems Challenges and Opportunities (Link)
2021
- A Survey on Arabic Handwritten Script Recognition Systems (Link)
2020
- Automatic recognition of handwritten Arabic characters: a comprehensive review (Link)
- Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition Using Deep Machine Learning: A Review of Recent Advances (Link)
2017
- Arabic Online Handwriting Recognition (AOHR): A Survey (Link)
- Arabic character recognition: a survey (Link)
- Arabic optical character recognition software: A review (Link)
2013
- Offline arabic handwritten text recognition: A Survey (Link)
2000
- Arabic Character Recognition: Progress and Challenges (Link)
2025
- Arabic hate speech detection using deep learning: a state-of-the-art survey of advances, challenges, and future directions (2020–2024) (Link)
- Arabic Cyberbullying Detection: A Comprehensive Review of Datasets and Methodologies (Link)
2024
- Toxic language detection: a systematic survey of Arabic datasets (Link)
- A systematic literature review of hate speech identification on Arabic Twitter data: research challenges and future directions (Link)
2023
- A Comprehensive Survey on Arabic Sarcasm Detection: Approaches, Challenges and Future Trends (Link)
2022
- Detecting Arabic textual threats in social media using artificial intelligence: An overview (Link)
2021
- A Survey of Offensive Language Detection for the Arabic Language (Link)
- Cyberbullying Classification Methods for Arabic: A Systematic Review (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)
2024
- 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)
2022
- 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)
2021
- Arabic Fake News and Spam Handling: Methods, Resources and Opportunities (Link)
2022
- Freely Available Arabic Corpora: A Scoping Review (Link)
2021
- Ontology-Based Approach to Semantically Enhanced Question Answering for Closed Domain: A Review (Link)
2020
- An Overview of Ontology Learning Process from Arabic Text (Link)
2017
- Critical Survey of the Freely Available Arabic Corpora (Link)
- Semantic Relations Extraction and Ontology Learning from Arabic Texts—A Survey (Link)
2016
- Arabic Quranic Search Tool Based on Ontology (Link)
2015
- Arabic NLP tools for ontology construction from Arabic text: An overview (Link)
- Applying ontological engineering approach for Arabic Quran corpus: A comprehensive survey (Link)
2011
- Arabic ontology engineering-challenges and opportunities (Link)
2016
- Arabic Cross-Language Information Retrieval: A Review (Link)
- Automatic Indexing of Arabic Texts: State of the Art (Link)
2014
- Arabic Information Retrieval: A Relevancy Assessment Survey (Link)
2008
- Current Approaches in Arabic IR: A Survey (Link)
2019
- A Survey of Opinion Mining in Arabic: A Comprehensive System Perspective Covering Challenges and Advances in Tools, Resources, Models, Applications, and Visualizations (Link)
2018
- A review of recent aspect extraction techniques for opinion mining systems (Link)
2022
- Arabic Knowledge Graph Construction: A close look in the present and into the future (Link)
- Topic Modeling on Arabic Language Dataset: Comparative Study (Link)
2017
- The Arabic Knowledge Graph: Opportunities and Challenges (Link)
2017
- Arabic Query Expansion: A Review (Link)
- Survey of Automatic Query Expansion for Arabic Text Retrieval (Link)
2026
- A comprehensive review of Artificial Intelligence in Qur'anic research: Trends, methods, challenges, and future directions (Link)
2025
- A literature review on natural language processing techniques for Qur'anic studies: challenges and insights (Link)
2023
- The utilization of machine learning on studying Hadith in Islam: A systematic literature review (Link)
2022
- Arabic natural language processing for Qur'anic research: a systematic review (Link)
2021
- Arabic Text Clustering Methods and Suggested Solutions for Theme-Based Quran Clustering: Analysis of Literature (Link)
2020
- Question Answering Systems on Holy Quran: A Review of Existing Frameworks, Approaches, Algorithms and Research Issues (Link)
- Hadith Text Classification: A Literature Review (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)
2019
- Computational and natural language processing based studies of hadith literature: a survey (Link)
- On the Usage of a Classical Arabic Corpus as a Language Resource: Related Research and Key Challenges (Link)
2016
- Arabic Quranic Search Tool Based on Ontology (Link)
2015
- Information Reliability Evaluation: From Arabic Storytelling to Computer Sciences (Link)
2014
- A review of Quranic computation for e-learning (Link)
2013
- Quranic Computation: A Review of Research and Application (Link)
2025
- The Landscape of Arabic Large Language Models (ALLMs): A New Era for Arabic Language Technology (Link)
- Large Language Models and Arabic Content: A Review (Link)
- Evaluating Arabic Large Language Models: A Survey of Benchmarks, Methods, and Gaps (Link)
- Mind the Gap: A Review of Arabic Post-Training Datasets and Their Limitations (Link)
- It's All Connected: A Survey for Multimodal Arabic AI (Link)
2024
- A Survey of Large Language Models for Arabic Language and its Dialects (Link)
2024
- Deep Learning in Written Arabic Linguistic Studies: A Comprehensive Survey (Link)
2022
- Deep Learning Architectures Applied on Arabic-Adapted Scripts: A Review (Link)
2020
- A Survey on Transfer Learning in Natural Language Processing (Link)
2019
- Improving the reliability of deep neural networks in NLP: A review (Link)
2018
- Graph-based Arabic NLP Techniques: A Survey (Link)
2017
- Deep learning for Arabic NLP: 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)
2015
- Research Trends in the Fields of Arabic Natural Language Processing Tasks and Arabic Information Extraction Applications: A Survey Study (Link)
2025
- Arabic relation extraction: a survey (Link)
- Unlocking Arabic event relation extraction: a comprehensive survey (Link)
2020
- Automatic Arabic sign language recognition: A review, taxonomy, open challenges, research roadmap and future directions (Link)
2018
- Automatic Translation from Arabic to Arabic Sign Language: A Review (Link)
2023
- Survey of Authorship Identification Tasks on Arabic Texts (Link)
2022
- Arabic Automatic Essay Scoring Systems: An Overview Study (Link)
2021
- Towards Author Profiling from Modern Standard Arabic Texts: A Review (Link)
2018
- Arabic Readability Research: Current State and Future Directions (Link)
2024
- Word embedding as a semantic feature extraction technique in arabic natural language processing: an overview (Link)
2020
- Semantic similarity for english and arabic texts: a review (Link)
2014
- Arabic Domain Terminology Extraction: A Literature Review (Link)
2021
- A Review of Arabic Text Steganography (Link)
- A Comparative Analysis of Arabic Text Steganography (Link)
2015
- ARABIC TEXT WATERMARKING: A REVIEW (Link)
2026
- Natural language processing for Arabic poetry analysis and generation: a systematic review (Link)
2025
- Natural Language Processing Approaches to Text Data Augmentation: A Computational Linguistic Analysis (Link)
- A Survey of Code-switched Arabic NLP: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions (Link)
2024
- Arabic Text Formality Modification: A Review and Future Research Directions (Link)
- Analysis and Mining of Arabic Comparative Sentences: A Literature Review (Link)
2023
- Arabic text detection: a survey of recent progress challenges and opportunities (Link)
2022
- A Revised Survey of Paraphrasing Generation Approaches and Tools for Arabic (Link)
2021
- Arabic Topic Identification: A Decade Scoping Review (Link)
2017
- Arabic Web page clustering: A review (Link)
2026
- AI-driven semantic information retrieval for Arabic language- systematic literature review (Link)
- Generative AI for Learning and Teaching Arabic: Opportunities, Challenges, and Ethical Considerations (Link)
2025
- Arabic Multimodal Machine Learning: Datasets, Applications, Approaches, and Challenges (Link)
- A Scoping Review of Arabic Natural Language Processing for Mental Health (Link)
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