--- title: "Sajawel Ahmed — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Sajawel Ahmed: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2024), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sajawel-ahmed/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sajawel-ahmed/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sajawel Ahmed # Sajawel Ahmed Sajawel Ahmed has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2024, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Carl Kruse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carl-kruse/), [Alexander Mehler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-mehler/), [Rob van der Goot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rob-van-der-goot/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5003022499) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5003022499) · [13 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5003022499) · [31 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5003022499&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sajawel-ahmed/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 8 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sajawel-ahmed/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11254](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/113/#star-11254) 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=Sajawel+Ahmed) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sajawel+Ahmed) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sajawel+Ahmed) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sajawel+Ahmed) ## Affiliations [🎓**Goethe University Frankfurt** Frankfurt am Main · Germany 2018–2023 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/goethe-university-frankfurt/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Literature and Literary Theory · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Topic modeling · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/topic-modeling/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sajawel-ahmed/year/2024/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sajawel-ahmed/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Tafsir Dataset: A Novel Multi-Task Benchmark for Named Entity Recognition and Topic Modeling in Classical Arabic Literature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ahmed-2022-tafsir-dataset-novel-multi-task/)** *(2022 · 2 citations)* Classical Arabic (CA) has a vast historical literature but almost no NLP resources. The authors address this with the Tafsir Dataset, built from Tafsir Al-Tabari, a large Quranic exegesis (Turki Edition, 2001). They converted the text to TEI and split it into sentences with a heuristic that uses editorial punctuation… 2. **[TafsirExtractor: Text Preprocessing Pipeline preparing Classical Arabic Literature for Machine Learning Applications](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kruse-2024-tafsirextractor-text-preprocessing-pipeline-preparing/)** *(2024)* Classical Arabic exegetical literature, such as the huge Quran commentary of Al-Tabari, lacks tooling that turns expert-annotated texts into the formats modern ML models need. ## All works 4 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. **[BIOfid Dataset: Publishing a German Gold Standard for Named Entity Recognition in Historical Biodiversity Literature ↗](https://aclanthology.org/K19-1081/) Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) · no summary yet**Sajawel Ahmed et al.*2019 · 19 citations* 2. **[Tafsir Dataset: A Novel Multi-Task Benchmark for Named Entity Recognition and Topic Modeling in Classical Arabic Literature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ahmed-2022-tafsir-dataset-novel-multi-task/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Sajawel Ahmed, Rob van der Goot, Misbahur Rehman, et al.*2022 · 2 citations* 3. **[SenseFitting: Sense Level Semantic Specialization of Word Embeddings for Word Sense Disambiguation ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13237) arXiv:1907.13237 · no summary yet**Manuel Stoeckel, Sajawel Ahmed, Alexander Mehler*2019 · 1 citation* 4. **[TafsirExtractor: Text Preprocessing Pipeline preparing Classical Arabic Literature for Machine Learning Applications](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kruse-2024-tafsirextractor-text-preprocessing-pipeline-preparing/) [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/)**Carl Kruse, Sajawel Ahmed*2024* ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Carl Kruse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carl-kruse/) ×2 - [Alexander Mehler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-mehler/) - [Rob van der Goot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rob-van-der-goot/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2022/) - [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/): [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/2024/) - Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 8 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [3 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sajawel-ahmed/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026