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# Shahbaz Syed

Shahbaz Syed has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2018, most of them on [Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Benno Stein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benno-stein/), [Henning Wachsmuth](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/henning-wachsmuth/), [Martin Potthast](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martin-potthast/).

2 papers in our library · 2017–2018

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5004664764) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4821-1507) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5004664764) · [41 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004664764) · [417 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004664764&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shahbaz-syed/#papers) · [🔗 203 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shahbaz-syed/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3240](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/33/#star-3240)

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=Shahbaz+Syed) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shahbaz+Syed) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shahbaz+Syed) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shahbaz+Syed)

## Affiliations

[🎓**Leipzig University** Leipzig · Germany 2019–2024 · 31 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/leipzig-university/) · [🎓**Bauhaus-Universität Weimar** Weimar · Germany 2017–2023 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bauhaus-universitat-weimar/) · [🎓**Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence** Dresden · Germany 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/center-for-scalable-data-analytics-and-artificial-intelligence/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 10 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

## Topics

[Summarization (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Information retrieval & search (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/)

## Works by year

### 2010s

[**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wachsmuth-2018-retrieval-best-counterargument-without-prior/) · [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/volske-2017-tl-dr-mining-reddit-learn/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[TL;DR: Mining Reddit to Learn Automatic Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/volske-2017-tl-dr-mining-reddit-learn/)** *(2017 · 202 citations)* Neural abstractive summarizers need very large training sets, and nearly all large English corpora for this task come from news.
2. **[Retrieval of the Best Counterargument without Prior Topic Knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wachsmuth-2018-retrieval-best-counterargument-without-prior/)** *(2018 · 196 citations)* The paper addresses how to retrieve the most fitting counterargument for an arbitrary argument when nothing is known in advance about its topic.

## Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Benno Stein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benno-stein/) ×2
- [Henning Wachsmuth](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/henning-wachsmuth/)
- [Martin Potthast](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martin-potthast/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 203 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [16 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shahbaz-syed/cited-by/).