Akbar Karimi

I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bonn, where I, along with researchers at Conversational AI and Social Analytics (CAISA) lab led by Prof. Lucie Flek, work on natural language processing and machine learning.

I did my PhD at the University of Parma under the supervision of Prof. Andrea Prati at IMP lab, where I did research on making language models more robust using adversarial learning and data augmentation techniques.

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CAISA at SemEval-2023 Task 8: Counterfactual Data Augmentation for Mitigating Class Imbalance in Causal Claim Identification
Akbar Karimi, Lucie Flek
SemEval, 2023
arXiv

Caisa@smm4h'22: Robust cross-lingual detection of disease mentions on social media with adversarial methods
Akbar Karimi, Lucie Flek
SMM4H, 2022
ACL Anthology

Text Analysis with Deep Learning and Data Augmentation
Akbar Karimi
University of Parma, 2022
Uni Parma Repository

Aspect-Based Emotion Analysis and Multimodal Coreference: A Case Study of Customer Comments on Adidas Instagram Posts
Luna De Bruyne, Akbar Karimi, Orphee De Clercq, Andrea Prati, Veronique Hoste
LREC, 2022
arXiv

Self-Balanced R-CNN for Instance Segmentation
Leonardo Rossi, Akbar Karimi, Andrea Prati
JVCIR, 2022
JVCIR

Improving Localization for Semi-Supervised Object Detection
Leonardo Rossi, Akbar Karimi, Andrea Prati
ICIAP, 2022
arXiv

AEDA: An Easier Data Augmentation Technique for Text Classification
Akbar Karimi, Leonardo Rossi, Andrea Prati
EMNLP, 2021
arXiv
Improving BERT Performance for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Akbar Karimi, Leonardo Rossi, Andrea Prati
ICNLSP, 2021
arXiv

Recursively Refined R-CNN: Instance Segmentation with Self-RoI Rebalancing
Leonardo Rossi, Akbar Karimi, Andrea Prati
CAIP, 2021
arXiv

Uniparma at SemEval-2021 Task 5: Toxic Spans Detection Using CharacterBERT and Bag-of-Words Model
Akbar Karimi, Leonardo Rossi, Andrea Prati
SemEval, 2021
arXiv

Adversarial Training for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with BERT
Akbar Karimi, Leonardo Rossi, Andrea Prati
ICPR, 2020
arXiv

A Novel Region of Interest Extraction Layer for Instance Segmentation
Leonardo Rossi, Akbar Karimi, Andrea Prati
ICPR, 2020
arXiv

Deep Multimodal Image-Text Embeddings for Automatic Cross-Media Retrieval
Hadi Abdi Khojasteh, Ebrahim Ansari, Parvin Razzaghi Akbar Karimi
arXiv, 2020
arXiv

Extracting an English-Persian Parallel Corpus from Comparable Corpora
Akbar Karimi, Ebrahim Ansari, Bahram Sadeghi Bigham
LREC, 2018
arXiv

Dialog Systems
Akbar Karimi
University of Bonn, 2024 (upcoming)

Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Akbar Karimi, Lucie Flek
University of Marburg, 2023

Dialog Systems
Akbar Karimi, Flora Sakketou
University of Marburg, 2022

Anurag Kotyial
Data Augmentation and Data Attribution
University of Aachen, 2024 (expected)

Shahzeb Qamar
Retrieval Augmented Classification
University of Bonn, 2024

Amirhossein Aliakbarzadeh
Robustness on Noisy Data
University of Bonn, 2024 (expected)

Pulkit Arora
Socio-demographic Robustness
University of Aachen, 2024 (expected)

Peyman Hasani Jalilian
A Comparison of Data Augmentation Techniques for Text Classification
University of Marburg, 2023

Pasquale Massimo Caputo
Text classification using BERT and Capsule Networks
University of Parma, 2021


Design and source code adapted from Jon Barron's website