A Comprehensive Analysis of Arabic Natural Language Processing Research: Trends, Topic Evolution, and Research Gaps -- A Bibliometric and Topic-Based Study

arXiv:2608.23421 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-08-24

Updated: 2026-08-25

Comments: 38 pages, 16 tables, 10 figures. Preprint

Code: https://github.com/CodeHunterOfficial/arabic-nlp-bibliometric-analysis

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Transformer — 24× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Machine Translation — 19× in this paper
• Benchmark — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Arabic Natural Language Processing — 11× in this paper
• Modern Standard Arabic — 10× in this paper
• Embeddings — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• RAG — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Tokenization — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Automatic Speech Recognition — 4× in this paper
• European Language Resources Association — 4× in this paper
• Hallucination — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 4× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Compound Annual Growth Rate — 3× in this paper
• Generative AI — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Interpretability — 3× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Optical Character Recognition — 3× in this paper
• Abundance — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Analyzer — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Named Entity Recognition (NER) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Transfer Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Transformer Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alternation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Causal Inference — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Cognitive Load — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cross-lingual Transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Curse of Dimensionality — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Downstream Tasks — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hallucination Detection — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hybrid Architectures — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Latent Dirichlet Allocation — 1× in this paper
• Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 1× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes
• Selection Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Sentiment Analysis for Arabic in Social Media Network: A Systematic Mapping Study
• Speech Recognition Challenge in the Wild: Arabic MGB-3
• Optimizing RAG Pipelines for Arabic: A Systematic Analysis of Core Components
• Evaluating Arabic Large Language Models: A Survey of Benchmarks, Methods, and Gaps
• Bridging Scientific Heritage: An Arabic--Russian Parallel Corpus and LLM Benchmark for Sustainable Knowledge Transfer
• ALLaM: Large Language Models for Arabic and English
• Arabic Multimodal Machine Learning: Datasets, Applications, Approaches, and Challenges
• Advancements and Challenges in Arabic Optical Character Recognition: A Comprehensive Survey
• Jais and Jais-chat: Arabic-Centric Foundation and Instruction-Tuned Open Generative Large Language Models
• Critical Survey of the Freely Available Arabic Corpora

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