Arabic text classification methods: systematic literature review of primary studies
Abstract
Recent research on Big Data proposed and evaluated a number of advanced techniques to gain meaningful information from the complex and large volume of data available on the World Wide Web. To achieve accurate text analysis, a process is usually initiated with a Text Classification (TC) method. Reviewing the very recent literature in this area shows that most studies are focused on English (and other scripts) while attempts on classifying Arabic texts remain relatively very limited. Hence, we intend to contribute the first Systematic Literature Review (SLR) utilizing a search protocol strictly to summarize key characteristics of the different TC techniques and methods used to classify Arabic text, this work also aims to identify and share a scientific evidence of the gap in current literature to help suggesting areas for further research. Our SLR explicitly investigates empirical evidence as a decision factor to include studies, then conclude which classifier produced more accurate results. Further, our findings identify the lack of standardized corpuses for Arabic text; authors compile their own, and most of the work is focused on Modern Arabic with very little done on Colloquial Arabic despite its wide use in Social Media Networks such as Twitter. In total, 1464 papers were surveyed from which 48 primary studies were included and analyzed.Citation
Alabbas W, Al-Khateeb HM, Mansour A (2016) 'Arabic text classification methods: Systematic literature review of primary studies', 4th IEEE International Colloquium on Information Science and Technology (CiSt) - Tangier, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..Additional Links
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7805072Type
Conference papers, meetings and proceedingsLanguage
enISBN
9781509007516ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1109/CIST.2016.7805072