--- title: "Islam Nassar — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Islam Nassar, The University of Sydney: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2026), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/islam-nassar/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/islam-nassar/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Islam Nassar # Islam Nassar Islam Nassar has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2026; often with [Gholamreza Haffari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gholamreza-haffari/), [Jamie Kiros](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jamie-kiros/), [Mohammad Norouzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-norouzi/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5055650983) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5055650983) · [8 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5055650983) · [110 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5055650983&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/islam-nassar/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 39 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/islam-nassar/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8519](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/86/#star-8519) 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=Islam+Nassar) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Islam+Nassar) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Islam+Nassar) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Islam+Nassar) ## Affiliations [🎓**The University of Sydney** Sydney · Australia 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-sydney/) · [🎓**Monash University** Melbourne · Australia 2021–2023 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/monash-university/) 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 8 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-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/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Health Information Management · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/health-professions/health-information-management/) · [Health Professions · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/health-professions/) · [Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/molecular-biology/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/islam-nassar/year/2026/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/islam-nassar/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Generate, Annotate, and Learn: NLP with Synthetic Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2022-generate-annotate-learn-nlp-synthetic/)** *(2022 · 69 citations)* Many NLP tasks, especially GLUE tasks with sentence-pair inputs, lack in-domain unlabeled text, which limits self-training and knowledge distillation (KD). 2. **[MedDCR: Learning to Design Agentic Workflows for Medical Coding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zheng-2026-meddcr-learning-design-agentic-workflows/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Assigning ICD codes to clinical notes involves several reasoning stages: spotting diagnoses, consulting code indexes, enforcing guideline rules and checking consistency. ## All works 3 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. **[Generate, Annotate, and Learn: NLP with Synthetic Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2022-generate-annotate-learn-nlp-synthetic/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Xuanli He, Islam Nassar, Jamie Kiros, et al.*2022 · 69 citations* 2. **[Neural Versus Non-Neural Text Simplification: A Case Study ↗](https://aclanthology.org/U19-1023/) Proceedings of the 17th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association · no summary yet**Islam Nassar, Michelle Ananda-Rajah, Gholamreza Haffari*2019 · 13 citations* 3. **[MedDCR: Learning to Design Agentic Workflows for Medical Coding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zheng-2026-meddcr-learning-design-agentic-workflows/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Jiyang Zheng, Islam Nassar, Thanh Vu, et al.*2026 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Gholamreza Haffari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gholamreza-haffari/) - [Jamie Kiros](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jamie-kiros/) - [Mohammad Norouzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-norouzi/) - [Thanh Vu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thanh-vu/) - [Tongliang Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tongliang-liu/) - [Xuanli He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanli-he/) - [Yuan-Fang Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuan-fang-li/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2022/) - Proceedings of the 17th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 39 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/islam-nassar/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026