A panoramic survey of natural language processing in the Arab world

Kareem Darwish; Nizar Habash; Mourad Abbas; Hend Al-Khalifa; Huseein T. Al-Natsheh; Houda Bouamor; Karim Bouzoubaa; Violetta Cavalli-Sforza; Samhaa R. El-Beltagy; Wassim El-Hajj; Mustafa Jarrar; Hamdy Mubarak

doi:10.1145/3447735

A panoramic survey of natural language processing in the Arab world

Kareem Darwish
, Nizar Habash
, Mourad Abbas
, Hend Al-Khalifa
, Huseein T. Al-Natsheh
, Houda Bouamor
, Karim Bouzoubaa
, Violetta Cavalli-Sforza
, Samhaa R. El-Beltagy
, Wassim El-Hajj
, Mustafa Jarrar
, Hamdy Mubarak

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Hamad bin Khalifa University
New York University Abu Dhabi
Scientific and Technical Research Center for the Development of the Arabic Language
King Saud University
Mawdoo3
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
Mohammed V University in Rabat
Al Akhawayn University
New Giza University
American University of Beirut
Birzeit University

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Abstract

Natural language processing (NLP), called computational linguistics or human language technologies, is the sub-field of artificial intelligence (AI) focused on modeling natural languages to build applications such as speech recognition and synthesis, machine translation, optical character recogni tion (OCR), sentiment analysis (SA), question answering, and dialogue systems. Though Arabic NLP has many challenges, it has seen many successes and developments.Researchers discuss Arabic’s main challenges as a necessary background, and we present a brief history of Arabic NLP. They survey a number of its research areas, and end with a critical discussion of the future of Arabic NLP.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	72-81
Number of pages	10
Journal	Communications of the ACM
Volume	64
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3447735
Publication status	Published - Apr 2021

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