--- title: "Zeerak Talat — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2025), h-index 19 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeerak-talat/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeerak-talat/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zeerak Talat # Zeerak Talat Zeerak Talat has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2025, most of them on [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Arjun Subramonian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arjun-subramonian/), [Aurélie Névéol](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aurelie-neveol/), [Dragomir Radev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dragomir-radev/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5053442069) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5503-867X) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130838689) · [**h-index 19**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5053442069) · [96 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5053442069) · [4,408 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5053442069&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeerak-talat/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,456 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeerak-talat/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6350](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/64/#star-6350) 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=Zeerak+Talat) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zeerak+Talat) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zeerak+Talat) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zeerak+Talat) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2024–2026 · 25 papersEmployment since 2024 · Chancellor's Fellow, Informatics*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) · [🎓**Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2022–2024 · 11 papersEmployment 2023–2024 · Research Fellow, Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mohamed-bin-zayed-university-of-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**Simon Fraser University** Burnaby · Canada 2021–2022 · 9 papersEmployment 2021–2022 · Post-Doctoral Fellow, Digital Democracies Institute](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/simon-fraser-university/) · [🎓**University of Sheffield** Sheffield · United Kingdom 2017–2021 · 9 papersEducation 2017–2020 · Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/) · [🎓**University of Copenhagen** Copenhagen · Denmark 2010–2016 · 2 papersEducation 2010–2014 · B.Sc. in Computer Science, Computer ScienceEducation 2014–2016 · M.Sc. in IT & Cognition, Humanities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-copenhagen/) 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 7 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/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeerak-talat/year/2025/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeerak-talat/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[You reap what you sow: On the Challenges of Bias Evaluation Under Multilingual Settings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/talat-2022-you-reap-what-you-sow/)** *(2022 · 130 citations)* This BigScience position paper asks how social bias should be evaluated in large language models that cover many languages. 2. **[Exploring the Limitations of Detecting Machine-Generated Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/doughman-2025-exploring-limitations-detecting-machine-generated/)** *(2025 · 7 citations)* Detectors of machine-generated text (MGT) often report strong accuracy, but they are usually tested on data resembling their training data. ## All works 6 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. **[BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05100) arXiv:2211.05100 · no summary yet**BigScience Workshop et al.*2022 · 1,606 citations* 2. **[You reap what you sow: On the Challenges of Bias Evaluation Under Multilingual Settings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/talat-2022-you-reap-what-you-sow/) [BigScience Episode – Workshop on Challenges & Perspectives in Creating Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bigscience/)**Zeerak Talat, Aurélie Névéol, Stella Biderman, et al.*2022 · 130 citations* 3. **[Mirages. On Anthropomorphism in Dialogue Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.290/) Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Gavin Abercrombie et al.*2023 · 108 citations* 4. **[The Perspectivist Paradigm Shift: Assumptions and Challenges of Capturing Human Labels ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-long.126/) Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Eve Fleisig et al.*2024 · 43 citations* 5. **[Exploring the Limitations of Detecting Machine-Generated Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/doughman-2025-exploring-limitations-detecting-machine-generated/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Jad Doughman, Osama Mohammed Afzal, Hawau Olamide Toyin, et al.*2025 · 7 citations* 6. **[Unrequited Emotions: Investigating the Gaps in Motivation and Practice in Speech Emotion Recognition Research ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.cas-1.6/) Proceedings of Computational Affective Science (CAS) @ LREC 2026 · no summary yet**Taryn Wong et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Arjun Subramonian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arjun-subramonian/) - [Aurélie Névéol](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aurelie-neveol/) - [Dragomir Radev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dragomir-radev/) - [Hawau Olamide Toyin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hawau-olamide-toyin/) - [Jad Doughman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jad-doughman/) - [Manan Dey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manan-dey/) - [Maraim Masoud](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maraim-masoud/) - [Margaret Mitchell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/margaret-mitchell/) - [Osama Mohammed Afzal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osama-mohammed-afzal/) - [Preslav Nakov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/preslav-nakov/) - [Sasha Luccioni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sasha-luccioni/) - [Shady Shehata](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shady-shehata/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [BigScience Episode – Workshop on Challenges & Perspectives in Creating Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bigscience/): [BigScience Episode – Workshop on Challenges & Perspectives in Creating Large Language Models 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bigscience/2022/) - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2025/) - Proceedings of Computational Affective Science (CAS) @ LREC 2026 - Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,456 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [311 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeerak-talat/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026