cs.CLOct 19, 2026

Arabic Financial NLP

Authors: Mo El-Haj

Organizations: VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam · Lancaster University, United Kingdom

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Abstract

Financial communication connects numerical accounts of economic activity with explanations of performance, responsibility and future expectations. Arabic financial natural language processing offers methods for studying these connections across corporate reports, market disclosures, journalism and banking interactions. Its contribution to digital humanities depends on retaining the relationship between a computational representation and the document from which it was made. This chapter follows that relationship from source collection and Arabic text processing to the analysis of vocabulary, evaluation, entities, causal attribution and multilingual reporting. It then examines what financial summaries and retrieval-grounded answers preserve or lose, and how dialectal intent detection changes the perspective from institutions speaking to institutions listening. Published Arabic resources are discussed in relation to the questions they were designed to answer, with a distinction between financial pretraining corpora, annotated datasets and evaluation benchmarks. A running constructed example connects the methodological discussion without presenting illustrative analysis as empirical findings. The chapter argues for an account of Arabic financial NLP in which linguistic context, documentary provenance and interpretive judgement remain part of the evidence throughout the analytical process.

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