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

Mullosharaf K. Arabov
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Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP) has grown rapidly over the past decade, driven by digital transformation in the Arab world, social media, and large language models (LLMs). Despite this growth, a comprehensive quantitative meta-analysis remains absent. This study presents a bibliometric and topic-based analysis of 7,120 Arabic NLP papers published between 1960 and 2026, sourced from five platforms (arXiv, ACL Anthology, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, OpenAlex) plus an additional targeted OpenAlex subset. We employ BERTopic for topic modeling, regression analysis, social network analysis, and geographic mapping. Our findings show a significant publication surge after 2020, driven by transformer models and LLMs. Topic modeling identifies 19 themes, the largest centered on text, speech, translation, and recognition (2,942 papers). Citation analysis reveals a positive correlation between paper age and citations (r = 0.245, p < 0.001); regression (R^2 = 0.105) shows that indexing in OpenAlex or Semantic Scholar and institutional affiliation are associated with higher citations. Saudi Arabia, the United States, and Egypt lead in research output. A task-dialect gap matrix identifies understudied areas, including summarization for Maghrebi, Iraqi, and Sudanese dialects. The largest topic has the highest H-index (90), followed by sentiment analysis (57). Our quantitative approach complements existing qualitative surveys and offers recommendations to prioritize under-resourced dialects and develop culturally aligned benchmarks.

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Mullosharaf K. Arabov. 2026-08-25. A Comprehensive Analysis of Arabic Natural Language Processing Research: Trends, Topic Evolution, and Research Gaps -- A Bibliometric and Topic-Based Study. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23421

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