--- title: "Afshin Rahimi — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Afshin Rahimi, The University of Queensland: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2020), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/afshin-rahimi/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/afshin-rahimi/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Afshin Rahimi # Afshin Rahimi Afshin Rahimi has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2020, most of them on [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Dat Quoc Nguyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dat-quoc-nguyen/), [Linh The Nguyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linh-the-nguyen/), [Thanh Vu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thanh-vu/). 2 papers in our library · 2019–2020 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5082351931) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7889-5025) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5082351931) · [37 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082351931) · [1,387 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082351931&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/afshin-rahimi/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 290 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/afshin-rahimi/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4555](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/46/#star-4555) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Afshin+Rahimi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Afshin+Rahimi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Afshin+Rahimi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Afshin+Rahimi) ## Affiliations [🎓**The University of Queensland** Brisbane · Australia 2020–2023 · 12 papersEmployment since 2020 · Lecturer, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-queensland/) · [🎓**The University of Melbourne** Melbourne · Australia 2014–2021 · 17 papersEducation · PhD in Computer Science, Computing and Information Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-melbourne/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/afshin-rahimi/year/2020/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/afshin-rahimi/year/2019/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Massively Multilingual Transfer for NER](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rahimi-2019-massively-multilingual-transfer-ner/)** *(2019 · 329 citations)* The paper addresses cross-lingual named entity recognition for low-resource target languages when many source-language models are available, not just one or a few. 2. **[WNUT-2020 Task 2: Identification of Informative COVID-19 English Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nguyen-2020-wnut-2020-task-2-identification/)** *(2020 · 115 citations)* This paper describes the WNUT-2020 shared task on deciding whether an English COVID-19 Tweet is INFORMATIVE or UNINFORMATIVE. ## All works 5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[IndoLEM and IndoBERT: A Benchmark Dataset and Pre-trained Language Model for Indonesian NLP ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.66/) Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Fajri Koto et al.*2020 · 395 citations* 2. **[Massively Multilingual Transfer for NER](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rahimi-2019-massively-multilingual-transfer-ner/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Afshin Rahimi, Yuan Li, Trevor Cohn*2019 · 329 citations* 3. **[Semi-supervised User Geolocation via Graph Convolutional Networks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P18-1187/) Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Afshin Rahimi, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin*2018 · 187 citations* 4. **[WNUT-2020 Task 2: Identification of Informative COVID-19 English Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nguyen-2020-wnut-2020-task-2-identification/) [Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wnut/)**Dat Quoc Nguyen, Thanh Vu, Afshin Rahimi, et al.*2020 · 115 citations* 5. **[A Neural Model for User Geolocation and Lexical Dialectology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P17-2033/) Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yet**Afshin Rahimi, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin*2017 · 109 citations* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dat Quoc Nguyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dat-quoc-nguyen/) - [Linh The Nguyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linh-the-nguyen/) - [Thanh Vu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thanh-vu/) - [Trevor Cohn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/trevor-cohn/) - [Yuan Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuan-li/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×3: [ACL 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2019/) - [Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wnut/): [Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wnut/2020/) - Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 290 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [50 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/afshin-rahimi/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026