Arabic natural language processing: An overview

Arabic is recognised as the 4th most used language of Internet. has three main varieties: (1) classical (CA), (2) Modern Standard (MSA), (3) Dialect (AD). MSA and AD could be written either in or Roman script (Arabizi), which corresponds to with Latin letters, numerals punctuation. Due complexity this number corresponding challenges for NLP, many surveys have been conducted, order synthesise work done on Arabic. However these principally focus two varieties (MSA AD, letters only), they are slightly old (no such survey since 2015) therefore do not cover recent resources tools. To bridge gap, we propose a focusing 90 research papers (74% were published after 2015). Our study presents classifies Arabic, by concentrating both Arabizi, associates each its publicly available whenever available.