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Arabic text classification methods: Systematic literature review of primary studies

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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.

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Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 361-367

Publication milestones

  • Published - 05/01/2017

Publication status

Published - 05/01/2017

Volume

0

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States

ISBN (Print)

9781509007523

ISBN (Electronic)

9781509007516

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/624325
  • Scopus: 85010223796

Host publication title

2016 4th IEEE International Colloquium on Information Science and Technology (CiSt)

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