Dr Ash Rahimi
Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
Researcher biography
Dr. Ash (Afshin) Rahimi is a lecturer at the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland. He received his B.S. degree in computer science (2006) and M.S. degree in computational linguistics (2013) both from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He worked in industry between 2006 and 2010. He achieved his PhD from The University of Melbourne (2018) focusing on social media user geolocation, and then worked as a research fellow on NLP for low-resource languages and medical literature. He regularly publishes his research results in top NLP conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL (gScholar).
Book Chapter
Hovy, Dirk, Rahimi, Afshin, Baldwin, Timothy and Brooke, Julian (2019). Visualizing regional language variation across Europe on Twitter. Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. (pp. 3719-3742) edited by Stanley D Brunn and Roland Kehrein. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-73400-2_175-1
Journal Article
Darwish, Kareem, Magdy, Walid, Rahimi, Afshin, Baldwin, Timothy and Abokhodair, Norah (2018). Predicting online islamophobic behavior after #ParisAttacks. Journal of Web Science, 4 (2), 34-52. doi: 10.1561/106.00000013
Conference Papers
Nguyen, Dat Quoc, Vu, Thanh, Rahimi, Afshin, Dao, Mai Hoang, Nguyen, Linh The and Doan, Long (2020). WNUT-2020 Task 2: Identification of Informative COVID-19 English Tweets. Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, Online, 19 November 2020. Stroudsburg, PA, United States: Association for Computational Linguistics. doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.wnut-1.41
Rahimi, Afshin, Baldwin, Timothy and Verspoor, Karin (2020). WikiUMLS: aligning UMLS to Wikipedia via Cross-lingual Neural Ranking. International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Online, 8-13 December 2020. Stroudsburg, PA, United States: International Committee on Computational Linguistics. doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.523
Koto, Fajri, Rahimi, Afshin, Lau, Jey Han and Baldwin, Timothy (2020). IndoLEM and IndoBERT: a benchmark dataset and pre-trained language model for Indonesian NLP. International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Online, 8-13 December 2020. Stroudsburg, PA, United States: International Committee on Computational Linguistics. doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.66
Rahimi, Afshin, Li, Yuan and Cohn, Trevor (2019). Massively multilingual transfer for NER. 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Florence, Italy, Jul 28-Aug 02, 2019. Stroudsburg, United States: Association for Computational Linguistics -ACL. doi: 10.18653/v1/p19-1015
Miyazaki, Taro, Rahimi, Afshin, Cohn, Trevor and Baldwin, Timothy (2018). Twitter geolocation using knowledge-based methods. 2018 EMNLP Workshop W-NUT: The 4th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, Brussels, Belgium, November 2018. Stroudsburg, PA, United States: Association for Computational Linguistics. doi: 10.18653/v1/w18-6102
Rahimi, Afshin, Cohn, Trevor and Baldwin, Timothy (2018). Semi-supervised User Geolocation via Graph Convolutional Networks. 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Melbourne, Australia, 15-20 July, 2018. Stroudsburg, United States: Association for Computational Linguistics -ACL. doi: 10.18653/v1/p18-1187
Rahimi, Afshin, Cohn, Trevor and Baldwin, Timothy (2017). A neural model for user geolocation and lexical dialectology. 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vancouver, Canada, 30 July - 4 August, 2017. Stroudsburg, PA, United States: Association for Computational Linguistics -ACL. doi: 10.18653/v1/p17-2033
Rahimi, Afshin, Baldwin, Timothy and Cohn, Trevor (2017). Continuous representation of location for geolocation and lexical dialectology using mixture density networks. 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2017. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics. doi: 10.18653/v1/d17-1016
Magdy, Walid, Darwish, Kareem, Abokhodair, Norah, Rahimi, Afshin and Baldwin, Timothy (2016). #ISISisNotIslam or #DeportAllMuslims? Predicting unspoken views. WebSci '16: 8th ACM Conference on Web Science, Hannover, Germany, 22-25 May 2016. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2908131.2908150
Shivashankar, S., Li, Yitong and Rahimi, Afshin (2016). ALTA shared-task 2016: Filter and match approach to pair-wise web URI linking. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Rahimi, Afshin, Cohn, Trevor and Baldwin, Timothy (2016). Pigeo: A Python geotagging tool. 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016, Berlin, Germany, 7 - 12 August 2016. Stroudsburg, United States: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). doi: 10.18653/v1/p16-4022
Rahimi, Afshin, Cohn, Trevor and Baldwin, Timothy (2015). Twitter user geolocation using a unified text and network prediction model. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNLP 2015, Beijing, China, 26 - 31 July 2015. Stroudsburg, United States: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). doi: 10.3115/v1/p15-2104
Rahimi, Afshin, Vu, Duy, Cohn, Trevor and Baldwin, Timothy (2015). Exploiting text and network context for geolocation of social media users. NAACL HLT 2015 - Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Denver, Colorado, United States, 31 May - 5 June 2015. Stroudsburg, United States: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). doi: 10.3115/v1/n15-1153
Rahimi, Afshin, Sahlgren, Magnus, Kerren, Andreas and Paradis, Carita (2014). The STAVICTA group report for RepLab 2014 Reputation Dimensions task. CLEF 2014 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 15-18 September 2014. Aachen, Germany: Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen.
Liu, Fei, Rahimi, Afshin, Salehi, Bahar, Choi, Miji, Tan, Ping and Duong, Long (2014). Automatic identification of expressions of locations in tweet messages using conditional random fields. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Neshati, Mahmood, Alijamaat, Ali, Abolhassani, Hassan, Rahimi, Afshin and Hoseini, Mehdi (2007). Taxonomy learning using compound similarity measure. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07), Fremont, CA, United States, 2-5 November 2007. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/WI.2007.135