--- title: "Zaid Sheikh — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Zaid Sheikh, Carnegie Mellon University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2026), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zaid-sheikh/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zaid-sheikh/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zaid Sheikh # Zaid Sheikh Zaid Sheikh has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2026, most of them on [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/); often with [David R. Mortensen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-r-mortensen/), [Graham Neubig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/graham-neubig/), [Lori Levin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lori-levin/). 2 papers in our library · 2018–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5111476836) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5111476836) · [16 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5111476836) · [131 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5111476836&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zaid-sheikh/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 39 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zaid-sheikh/cited-by/) · [5 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12080](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/121/#star-12080) 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=Zaid+Sheikh) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zaid+Sheikh) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zaid+Sheikh) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zaid+Sheikh) ## Affiliations [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2013–2026 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) 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 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Morphology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zaid-sheikh/year/2026/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zaid-sheikh/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MERLIN: A Testbed for Multilingual Multimodal Entity Recognition and Linking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ramamoorthy-2026-merlin-testbed-multilingual-multimodal-entity/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Entity linking maps an ambiguous mention to its referent in a knowledge base. It becomes difficult when the surrounding text is short, as in news headlines. Until now, multilingual linking research has used text alone. This paper asks whether accompanying images can resolve such ambiguity across languages. The… 2. **[Parser combinators for Tigrinya and Oromo morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/littell-2018-parser-combinators-tigrinya-oromo-morphology/)** *(2018 · 2 citations)* The authors write rule-based morphological parsers for Tigrinya and Oromo as parser combinators in Python, not as finite-state transducers. ## All works 7 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. **[A Little Annotation does a Lot of Good: A Study in Bootstrapping Low-resource Named Entity Recognizers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D19-1520/) Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) · no summary yet**Aditi Chaudhary et al.*2019 · 47 citations* 2. **[Reducing Confusion in Active Learning for Part-Of-Speech Tagging ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.1/) Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Aditi Chaudhary et al.*2021 · 28 citations* 3. **[AUTOLEX: An Automatic Framework for Linguistic Exploration ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13901) arXiv:2203.13901 (2022) · no summary yet**Aditi Chaudhary et al.*2022 · 6 citations* 4. **[The ARIEL-CMU Systems for LoReHLT18 ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08899) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Aditi Chaudhary et al.*2019 · 6 citations* 5. **[MERLIN: A Testbed for Multilingual Multimodal Entity Recognition and Linking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ramamoorthy-2026-merlin-testbed-multilingual-multimodal-entity/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Sathyanarayanan Ramamoorthy, Vishwa Shah, Simran Khanuja, et al.*2026 · 2 citations* 6. **[CMULAB: An Open-Source Framework for Training and Deployment of Natural Language Processing Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02408) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Zaid Sheikh et al.*2024 · 2 citations* 7. [**Parser combinators for Tigrinya and Oromo morphology**Patrick Littell, Tom McCoy, Na-Rae Han, et al.*Semitic languages · 2 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/littell-2018-parser-combinators-tigrinya-oromo-morphology/) ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [David R. Mortensen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-r-mortensen/) - [Graham Neubig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/graham-neubig/) - [Lori Levin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lori-levin/) - [Na-Rae Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/na-rae-han/) - [Patrick Littell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patrick-littell/) - [Shruti Rijhwani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shruti-rijhwani/) - [Simran Khanuja](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simran-khanuja/) - [Teruko Mitamura](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/teruko-mitamura/) - [Vishwa Shah](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vishwa-shah/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/) ×2: [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2026/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2018/) - Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 39 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zaid-sheikh/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026