--- title: "Ahmet Aker · University of Sheffield — author profile and papers" description: "Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2016–2019), h-index 19 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmet-aker/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmet-aker/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ahmet Aker # Ahmet Aker Ahmet Aker has 2 papers in our library, in 2016–2019, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Arkaitz Zubiaga](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arkaitz-zubiaga/), [Kalina Bontcheva](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kalina-bontcheva/), [Kashif Shah](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kashif-shah/). 2 papers in our library · 2016–2019 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5065296262) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3381-0790) · [**h-index 19**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5065296262) · [91 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5065296262) · [2,133 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5065296262&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmet-aker/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 71 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmet-aker/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4239](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/43/#star-4239) 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=Ahmet+Aker) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ahmet+Aker) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ahmet+Aker) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ahmet+Aker) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Sheffield** Sheffield · United Kingdom 2008–2023 · 58 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/) · [🎓**University of Duisburg-Essen** Essen · Germany 2017–2022 · 30 papers](https://ror.org/04mz5ra38) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper SemEval-2019 Task 7: RumourEval, Determining Rumour Veracity and Support for Rumours](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gorrell-2019-semeval-2019-task-7-rumoureval/) · [**2016** 1 paper Creation of comparable corpora for English-Urdu, Arabic, Persian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abouammoh-2016-creation-comparable-corpora-english-urdu/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[SemEval-2019 Task 7: RumourEval, Determining Rumour Veracity and Support for Rumours](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gorrell-2019-semeval-2019-task-7-rumoureval/)** *(2019 · 290 citations)* RumourEval 2019 is the second edition of a SemEval shared task on automatically assessing rumours on social media. 2. **[Creation of comparable corpora for English-Urdu, Arabic, Persian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abouammoh-2016-creation-comparable-corpora-english-urdu/)** *(2016)* Statistical MT needs parallel text, which is scarce for many language pairs and domains. Most earlier work on comparable corpora targeted European languages, so this paper builds news-based comparable corpora pairing English with Arabic, Persian and Urdu. Articles were collected from hand-picked RSS feeds every 15… ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Arkaitz Zubiaga](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arkaitz-zubiaga/) - [Kalina Bontcheva](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kalina-bontcheva/) - [Kashif Shah](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kashif-shah/) - [Leon Derczynski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leon-derczynski/) - [Maria Liakata](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maria-liakata/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2016/) - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/): [SemEval 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2019/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 71 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmet-aker/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026