--- title: "Rahat Iqbal — author profile and papers · Sentiment & emotion" description: "Rahat Iqbal, Coventry: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2018), h-index 25 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rahat-iqbal/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rahat-iqbal/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Rahat Iqbal # Rahat Iqbal Rahat Iqbal has 3 papers in our library, in 2017–2018, most of them on [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Abdulaziz M. Alayba](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdulaziz-m-alayba/), [Matthew England](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-england/), [Vasile Palade](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vasile-palade/). 3 papers in our library · 2017–2018 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5001354034) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3475-3030) · [**h-index 25**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5001354034) · [149 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5001354034) · [2,545 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5001354034&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rahat-iqbal/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 26 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rahat-iqbal/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4353](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/44/#star-4353) 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=Rahat+Iqbal) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Rahat+Iqbal) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Rahat+Iqbal) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Rahat+Iqbal) ## Affiliations [🏢**Coventry** Coventry · United Kingdom 2003–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://ror.org/030nd5313) · [🎓**Coventry University** Coventry · United Kingdom 2003–2022 · 119 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/coventry-university/) · [🎓**University of Dubai** Dubai · United Arab Emirates 2021–2023 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-dubai/) · [🎓**Eindhoven University of Technology** Eindhoven · Netherlands 2005–2006 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/eindhoven-university-of-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution 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/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2018** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rahat-iqbal/year/2018/) · [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rahat-iqbal/year/2017/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Combined CNN and LSTM Model for Arabic Sentiment Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alayba-2018-combined-cnn-lstm-model-arabic/)** *(2018 · 217 citations)* The paper tackles binary (positive/negative) sentiment classification of Arabic tweets. This is hard because tweets are short, Arabic morphology is rich (a single verb takes many gendered, numbered and tensed forms), and reliable preprocessing tools are scarce, especially for dialectal text. The authors stack a CNN… 2. **[Arabic Language Sentiment Analysis on Health Services](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alayba-2017-arabic-language-sentiment-analysis-health/)** *(2017 · 126 citations)* The work tackles the shortage of Arabic sentiment resources by building a Twitter corpus of opinions about health services. 3. **[Improving Sentiment Analysis in Arabic Using Word Representation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alayba-2018-improving-sentiment-analysis-arabic-using/)** *(2018 · 59 citations)* Sentiment classification for Arabic is difficult: the language has rich morphology, inconsistent spelling (the Hamza letter is a frequent source of errors) and many dialects, and tweets are very short. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Abdulaziz M. Alayba](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdulaziz-m-alayba/) ×2 - [Matthew England](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-england/) ×2 - [Vasile Palade](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vasile-palade/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Lecture notes in computer science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lecture-notes-in-computer-science/): [Lecture notes in computer science 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lecture-notes-in-computer-science/2018/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 26 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [20 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rahat-iqbal/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026