Research Trends in the Fields of Arabic Natural Language Processing Tasks and Arabic Information Extraction Applications: A Survey Study
Abstract
This survey has explored the literature on the fields of Arabic NLP tasks and Arabic IE applications to analyze the state-of-the-art trends, identify the research gaps in these research fields, and recommend solutions to fulfill these gaps. This study is set out to gather appropriate research articles in the targeted fields from Academic Search Engines and Academic Databases. Subsequently, these articles were surveyed to obtain information about research trends aspects. That is, the contributions achieved, the methodologies applied, and the technical and linguistic resources utilized. This review study has followed systematic review procedure steps to meet the requirements of high-quality survey studies. The collected and reviewed articles cover different research contributions. For instance, the Morphological resolution in the field of Arabic NLP tasks and the Sentiment Analysis (SA) applications in the field of Arabic IE applications. The findings of this study can be summarized into that most of the researchers in the field of Arabic NLP tasks prefer to contribute to NER and then to the Morphological resolution tasks; however, in the field of Arabic IE they prefer to contribute to SA applications and then to the Question and Answering applications. Secondly, most of the reviewed articles applied methodologies, tools, techniques, and algorithms, not for specific languages such as Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Networks, and Deep Learning Algorithms. Lastly, this study provides the first comprehensive assessment which examines associations between the dataset sources domain types and dataset sources ownership types in addition to the relation between articles’ contribution fields and the datasets ownership types. It confirms that the highest-reviewed articles numbers in the field of Arabic NLP tasks are for those that utilize existing and available dataset sources; specifically, in Linguistic domain dataset sources. Nonetheless, the highest reviewed articles numbers in the field of Arabic IE applications are for those whose authors are collecting and creating the dataset sources by themselves; also, in Linguistic domain dataset sources.References
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