--- title: "Astha Shrestha · Taylor's University — author profile and papers" description: "Astha Shrestha, Taylor's University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/astha-shrestha/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/astha-shrestha/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Astha Shrestha # Astha Shrestha Astha Shrestha has 3 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Low-resource languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Information extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/); often with [Sujal Maharjan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sujal-maharjan/), [Kritesh Rauniyar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kritesh-rauniyar/), [Rabin Thapa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rabin-thapa/). 3 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5082501909) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6303-9963) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5082501909) · [17 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082501909) · [6 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082501909&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/astha-shrestha/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 3 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/astha-shrestha/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10823](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/109/#star-10823) 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=Astha+Shrestha) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Astha+Shrestha) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Astha+Shrestha) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Astha+Shrestha) ## Affiliations [🎓**IIMS College** Kathmandu · Nepal 2025–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/iims-college/) · [🏥**Civil Service Hospital** Kathmandu · Nepal 2025–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/05r5vfp03) · [🎓**Taylor's University** Subang Jaya · Malaysia 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/0498pcx51) · [🎓**Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital** Kathmandu · Nepal 2018–2025 · 7 papers](https://ror.org/05m5pc269) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## 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 · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 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 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Low-resource languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Information extraction · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/astha-shrestha/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Benchmarking Models for Low-Resource Nepali Event Extraction with Trigger Phrase Identification and Event Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maharjan-2026-benchmarking-models-low-resource-nepali/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Event extraction research has focused on high-resource languages, so Nepali has had no dedicated annotated resource for it. 2. **[Improving Public Health Safety in Low-Resource Languages Using a Human-Verified Health Misinformation Corpus and Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maharjan-2026-improving-public-health-safety-low/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Automatic detection of health misinformation is barely studied for low-resource languages such as Nepali, mainly because trustworthy evaluation data are missing. 3. **[Sagarmatha at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Heterogeneous Ensembling and Hierarchical Task Conditioning for Multilingual Latent Distributional Divergence Modeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maharjan-2026-sagarmatha-semeval-2026-task-9/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The Sagarmatha team built a system for SemEval-2026 Task 9, which asks models to analyse polarized online discourse in 22 languages at three levels: whether a text is polarized (S1), which polarization types apply (S2), and which rhetorical tactics such as vilification or dehumanization appear (S3). ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Sujal Maharjan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sujal-maharjan/) ×3 - [Kritesh Rauniyar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kritesh-rauniyar/) ×2 - [Rabin Thapa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rabin-thapa/) ×2 - [Shuvam Shiwakoti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuvam-shiwakoti/) ×2 - [Surendrabikram Thapa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/surendrabikram-thapa/) ×2 - [Sweta Poudel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sweta-poudel/) ×2 - [Laxmi Thapa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laxmi-thapa/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chipsal/): [workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chipsal/2026/) - [Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eeuca/): [Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eeuca/2026/) - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/): [SemEval 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/astha-shrestha/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026