1 code implementation • COLING (WNUT) 2022 • Adam Dimeski, Afshin Rahimi
Aggregate mining exploration results can help companies and governments to optimise and police mining permits and operations, a necessity for transition to a renewable energy future, however, these results are buried in unstructured text.
no code implementations • COLING (WNUT) 2022 • Ajay Hemanth Sampath Kumar, Aminath Shausan, Gianluca Demartini, Afshin Rahimi
Monitoring vaccine behaviour through social media can guide health policy.
1 code implementation • 8 Jan 2025 • Hafiz Mughees Ahmad, Dario Morle, Afshin Rahimi
Despite sophisticated neural network architectures, existing models often struggle to maintain consistent performance when confronted with Out-of-Distribution (OOD) samples, including natural corruptions, adversarial perturbations, and anomalous patterns.
2 code implementations • 5 Jul 2024 • Hafiz Mughees Ahmad, Afshin Rahimi
Workplace accidents continue to pose significant risks for human safety, particularly in industries such as construction and manufacturing, and the necessity for effective Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) compliance has become increasingly paramount.
no code implementations • 31 Jan 2024 • Hafiz Mughees Ahmad, Afshin Rahimi, Khizer Hayat
In this study, we have initially developed a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based OD model to tackle this issue.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2021 • Shivashankar Subramanian, Afshin Rahimi, Timothy Baldwin, Trevor Cohn, Lea Frermann
Class imbalance is a common challenge in many NLP tasks, and has clear connections to bias, in that bias in training data often leads to higher accuracy for majority groups at the expense of minority groups.
no code implementations • ALTA 2020 • Farhad Moghimifar, Afshin Rahimi, Mahsa Baktashmotlagh, Xue Li
Causal relationships form the basis for reasoning and decision-making in Artificial Intelligence systems.
no code implementations • COLING 2020 • Fajri Koto, Afshin Rahimi, Jey Han Lau, Timothy Baldwin
Although the Indonesian language is spoken by almost 200 million people and the 10th most spoken language in the world, it is under-represented in NLP research.
1 code implementation • EMNLP (WNUT) 2020 • Dat Quoc Nguyen, Thanh Vu, Afshin Rahimi, Mai Hoang Dao, Linh The Nguyen, Long Doan
In this paper, we provide an overview of the WNUT-2020 shared task on the identification of informative COVID-19 English Tweets.
1 code implementation • COLING 2020 • Afshin Rahimi, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor
We present our work on aligning the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) to Wikipedia, to facilitate manual alignment of the two resources.
no code implementations • ALTA 2019 • Gaurav Arora, Afshin Rahimi, Timothy Baldwin
Catastrophic forgetting {---} whereby a model trained on one task is fine-tuned on a second, and in doing so, suffers a {``}catastrophic{''} drop in performance over the first task {---} is a hurdle in the development of better transfer learning techniques.
1 code implementation • ACL 2019 • Afshin Rahimi, Yuan Li, Trevor Cohn
In cross-lingual transfer, NLP models over one or more source languages are applied to a low-resource target language.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Taro Miyazaki, Afshin Rahimi, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin
Automatic geolocation of microblog posts from their text content is particularly difficult because many location-indicative terms are rare terms, notably entity names such as locations, people or local organisations.
1 code implementation • ACL 2018 • Afshin Rahimi, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin
Social media user geolocation is vital to many applications such as event detection.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2017 • Afshin Rahimi, Timothy Baldwin, Trevor Cohn
We propose a method for embedding two-dimensional locations in a continuous vector space using a neural network-based model incorporating mixtures of Gaussian distributions, presenting two model variants for text-based geolocation and lexical dialectology.
no code implementations • ACL 2017 • Afshin Rahimi, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin
We propose a simple yet effective text- based user geolocation model based on a neural network with one hidden layer, which achieves state of the art performance over three Twitter benchmark geolocation datasets, in addition to producing word and phrase embeddings in the hidden layer that we show to be useful for detecting dialectal terms.
no code implementations • WS 2016 • Bo Han, Afshin Rahimi, Leon Derczynski, Timothy Baldwin
This paper presents the shared task for English Twitter geolocation prediction in WNUT 2016.
no code implementations • 3 Oct 2015 • Afshin Rahimi, Moharram Eslami, Bahram Vazirnezhad
Syllable contact pairs crosslinguistically tend to have a falling sonority slope a constraint which is called the Syllable Contact Law SCL In this study the phonotactics of syllable contacts in 4202 CVCCVC words of Persian lexicon is investigated The consonants of Persian were divided into five sonority categories and the frequency of all possible sonority slopes is computed both in lexicon type frequency and in corpus token frequency Since an unmarked phonological structure has been shown to diachronically become more frequent we expect to see the same pattern for syllable contact pairs with falling sonority slope The correlation of sonority categories of the two consonants in a syllable contact pair is measured using Pointwise Mutual Information
no code implementations • 3 Oct 2015 • Afshin Rahimi, Bahram Vazirnezhad, Moharram Eslami
Cognitive acoustic cues have an important role in shaping the phonological structure of language as a means to optimal communication.
no code implementations • IJCNLP 2015 • Afshin Rahimi, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin
We propose a label propagation approach to geolocation prediction based on Modified Adsorption, with two enhancements:(1) the removal of "celebrity" nodes to increase location homophily and boost tractability, and (2) he incorporation of text-based geolocation priors for test users.
no code implementations • HLT 2015 • Afshin Rahimi, Duy Vu, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin
Research on automatically geolocating social media users has conventionally been based on the text content of posts from a given user or the social network of the user, with very little crossover between the two, and no bench-marking of the two approaches over compara- ble datasets.