--- title: "Rafet Sifa — author profile and papers" description: "Rafet Sifa, University of Bonn: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 27 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rafet-sifa/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rafet-sifa/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Rafet Sifa # Rafet Sifa Rafet Sifa has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Hannaneh Hajishirzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannaneh-hajishirzi/), [Jack Hessel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jack-hessel/), [Prithviraj Ammanabrolu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prithviraj-ammanabrolu/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2023 current affiliation [University of Bonn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-bonn/), Bonn, Germany; [Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/fraunhofer-institute-for-intelligent-analysis-and-information-systems/), Sankt Augustin, Germany; [Bonn Aachen International Center for Information Technology](https://ror.org/054zhq066), Bonn, Germany; [Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence](https://ror.org/04s11ea33), Sankt Augustin [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5064201630) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6680-8210) · [**h-index 27**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5064201630) · [227 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5064201630) · [2 464 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5064201630&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rafet-sifa/#papers) · [198 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rafet-sifa/cited-by/) · 3 more works in our library · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3929](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/40/#star-3929) 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=Rafet+Sifa) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Rafet+Sifa) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Rafet+Sifa) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Rafet+Sifa) ## Affiliations - [Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/fraunhofer-institute-for-intelligent-analysis-and-information-systems/) · Sankt Augustin, Germany —current · 2014–2026 on 172 papers - [University of Bonn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-bonn/) · Bonn, Germany —current · 2012–2026 on 56 papers - [Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence](https://ror.org/04s11ea33) · Sankt Augustin —current · 2021–2026 on 7 papers - [Bonn Aachen International Center for Information Technology](https://ror.org/054zhq066) · Bonn, Germany —current · 2018–2026 on 6 papers - [Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft](https://ror.org/05hkkdn48) · Munich, Germany —2017–2025 on 2 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Language models & pretraining 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Reasoning 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Semitic languages 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deen-2023-improving-natural-language-inference-arabic/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ramamurthy-2022-reinforcement-learning-natural-language-processing/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Is Reinforcement Learning (Not) for Natural Language Processing: Benchmarks, Baselines, and Building Blocks for Natural Language Policy Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ramamurthy-2022-reinforcement-learning-natural-language-processing/)** *(2022 · 166 citations)* The paper asks whether reinforcement learning is a practical way to align pre-trained language models with human preferences. 2. **[Improving Natural Language Inference in Arabic using Transformer Models and Linguistically Informed Pre-Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deen-2023-improving-natural-language-inference-arabic/)** *(2023 · 2 citations)* Arabic has few labelled resources for Natural Language Inference (NLI), the task of judging whether a hypothesis is entailed by, neutral to, or contradicted by a premise. ## Also in our library 3 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hannaneh Hajishirzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannaneh-hajishirzi/) - [Jack Hessel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jack-hessel/) - [Prithviraj Ammanabrolu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prithviraj-ammanabrolu/) - [Yejin Choi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yejin-choi/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 198 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [25 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rafet-sifa/cited-by/).