Mezbaur Rahman

I am Mezbaur Rahman, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), where I work as a Research Assistant in the dl4nlpspace Lab under the guidance of Professor Cornelia Caragea. My research lies at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, with a focus on semi-supervised learning and learning from noisy labels using signals from large language models (LLMs).

I earned my B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Islamic University of technology (IUT), Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2019. After graduation, I joined IUT as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, where I taught undergraduate courses and engaged in research until July 2023. In Fall 2023, I began my Ph.D. journey at UIC, where I am currently pursuing my doctoral studies in Computer Science.

news

Aug 2025	🎉 Our paper “LLM Guided Co-Training for Text Classification” was accepted at EMNLP 2025 (Main). arXiv.
Aug 2025	Organizing the Bengali Code Generation Shared Task (BLP @ IJCNLP-AACL 2025)

selected publications

NLP

LLM-Guided Co-Training for Text Classification

Md Mezbaur Rahman and Cornelia Caragea

In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Nov 2025

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@inproceedings{Rahman2025LLMCoTraining,
  author = {Rahman, Md Mezbaur and Caragea, Cornelia},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  year = {2025},
  month = nov,
  note = {},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  title = {{LLM}-{Guided} {Co}-{Training} for {Text} {Classification}},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16516},
}

NLP

Multihop Factual Claim Verification Using Natural Language Prompts

Md Mezbaur Rahman, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, and 2 more authors

Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Jun 2023

https://caiac.pubpub.org/pub/ex7vouwq

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@article{Rahman2023Multihop,
  author = {Rahman, Md Mezbaur and Islam, Mohammed Saidul and Laskar, Md Tahmid Rahman and Hossain, Md Azam and Kamal, Abu Raihan Mostofa},
  journal = {Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year = {2023},
  month = jun,
  note = {https://caiac.pubpub.org/pub/ex7vouwq},
  publisher = {Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association (CAIAC)},
  title = {Multihop {Factual} {Claim} {Verification} {Using} {Natural} {Language} {Prompts}},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.21428/594757db.63abb0f0},
}

NLP

BanglaRQA: A Benchmark Dataset for Under-resourced Bangla Language Reading Comprehension-based Question Answering with Diverse Question-Answer Types

Syed Mohammed Sartaj Ekram, Adham Arik Rahman, Md. Sajid Altaf, and 5 more authors

In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, Dec 2022

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@inproceedings{ekram-etal-2022-banglarqa,
  title = {{B}angla{RQA}: A Benchmark Dataset for Under-resourced {B}angla Language Reading Comprehension-based Question Answering with Diverse Question-Answer Types},
  author = {Ekram, Syed Mohammed Sartaj and Rahman, Adham Arik and Altaf, Md. Sajid and Islam, Mohammed Saidul and Rahman, Mehrab Mustafy and Rahman, Md Mezbaur and Hossain, Md Azam and Kamal, Abu Raihan Mostofa},
  editor = {Goldberg, Yoav and Kozareva, Zornitsa and Zhang, Yue},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022},
  month = dec,
  year = {2022},
  address = {Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.186/},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.186},
  pages = {2518--2532},
}

NLP

An efficient approach to automatic tag prediction from movie plot synopses using transformer-based language model

Md Mezbaur Rahman, Saadman Malik, Mohammed Saidul Islam, and 3 more authors

In 2022 25th International conference on computer and information technology (ICCIT), Dec 2022

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@inproceedings{rahman2022efficient,
  title = {An efficient approach to automatic tag prediction from movie plot synopses using transformer-based language model},
  author = {Rahman, Md Mezbaur and Malik, Saadman and Islam, Mohammed Saidul and Saad, Fardin and Hossain, Md Azam and Kamal, Abu Raihan Mostofa},
  booktitle = {2022 25th International conference on computer and information technology (ICCIT)},
  pages = {501--505},
  year = {2022},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/ICCIT57492.2022.10055349},
}