Topic Detection Approaches in Identifying Topics and Events from Arabic Corpora

摘要

How can we know what is going on in the world with a click of a button? With the increase of digital data everywhere, it is becoming difficult to categorize and retrieve information from such huge data. Topic detection is considered a powerful way to mine data and relate similar documents together. Although the Arabic content on the web is increasing every day, the application of topic detection on Arabic text is not up to this increase. In this paper we are investigating famous topic detection techniques, and latest significant scholarly articles related to topic detection in general and in the Arabic domain in specific. This survey paper will help researchers interested in the domain of topic detection to be familiar with commonly used techniques and updated with the latest technologies in this area.