As more and more Arabic texts emerged on the Internet, extracting important information from these Arabic texts is especially useful. As a fundamental technology, Named entity recognition (NER) serves as the core component in information extraction technology, while also playing a critical role in many other Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems, such as question answering and knowledge graph building. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of the development of Arabic NER, especially the recent advances in deep learning and pre-trained language model. Specifically, we first introduce the background of Arabic NER, including the characteristics of Arabic and existing resources for Arabic NER. Then, we systematically review the development of Arabic NER methods. Traditional Arabic NER systems focus on feature engineering and designing domain-specific rules. In recent years, deep learning methods achieve significant progress by representing texts via continuous vector representations. With the growth of pre-trained language model, Arabic NER yields better performance. Finally, we conclude the method gap between Arabic NER and NER methods from other languages, which helps outline future directions for Arabic NER.

本文全面回顾了阿拉伯语命名实体识别技术的发展，特别是深度学习和预训练语言模型的最新进展，介绍了传统阿拉伯语NER系统和最新发展的深度学习方法，并指出了与其他语言NER技术的差距，为阿拉伯语NER未来的发展方向提供了参考。

阿拉伯命名实体识别综述: 历史、最新进展和未来趋势