GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne [email protected]
I am a senior researcher in the team BDA at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne, Germany since 2022. Before that I was assistant professor (computer science) at National university of computer and emerging sciences (FAST-NUCES), Pakistan.
Johannes Kiesel, Christina Viehmann, Felix Victor Münch, Arnim Bleier, Chung-hong Chan, Po-Chun Chang, Raniere Gaia Costa da Silva, Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam, Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Stephan Linzbach, Fakhri Momeni, Ran Yu, Claudia Wagner, and Stefan Dietze.
2026.
The Methods Hub: A Community Portal for Finding and Re-Using Methods.
In 18th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci 2026 Companion), May, 2026, Braunschweig, Germany. ACM.
doi
@InProceedings{kiesel:2026b,
author = {Johannes Kiesel and Christina Viehmann and Felix Victor M{\"u}nch and Arnim Bleier and Chung-hong Chan and Po-Chun Chang and Raniere Gaia {Costa da Silva} and Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam and Muhammad Taimoor Khan and Stephan Linzbach and Fakhri Momeni and Ran Yu and Claudia Wagner and Stefan Dietze},
booktitle = {18th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci 2026 Companion)},
doi = {10.1145/3795513.3807427},
editor = {Gianluca Demartini and Stefan Dietze and Jennifer Golbeck and Shadi Rezapour and Marc Spaniol and Wolf-Tilo Balke and Florian Pl{\"o}tzky},
month = may,
publisher = {ACM},
site = {Braunschweig, Germany},
title = {The Methods Hub: A Community Portal for Finding and Re-Using Methods},
url = {https://downloads.the-bda.team/publications/papers/kiesel_2026b.pdf},
year = 2026
}
Arnim Bleier, Johannes Kiesel, Christina Viehmann, Felix Victor Münch, Chung-hong Chan, Po-Chun Chang, Raniere Gaia Costa da Silva, Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam, Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Stephan Linzbach, Fakhri Momeni, Ran Yu, Stefan Dietze, and Claudia Wagner.
2026.
Improving Reproducibility in Computational Social Science with the Methods Hub.
In 20th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2026), May, 2026, Los Angeles, USA. AAAI Press.
@InProceedings{bleier:2026a,
author = {Arnim Bleier and Johannes Kiesel and Christina Viehmann and Felix Victor M{\"u}nch and Chung-hong Chan and Po-Chun Chang and Raniere Gaia {Costa da Silva} and Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam and Muhammad Taimoor Khan and Stephan Linzbach and Fakhri Momeni and Ran Yu and Stefan Dietze and Claudia Wagner},
booktitle = {20th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2026)},
month = may,
publisher = {AAAI Press},
site = {Los Angeles, USA},
title = {Improving Reproducibility in Computational Social Science with the Methods Hub},
url = {https://downloads.the-bda.team/publications/papers/bleier_2026a.pdf},
year = 2026
}
@InProceedings{khan:2025c,
author = {Muhammad Taimoor Khan and Johannes Kiesel and Dimitar Dimitrov and Stefan Dietze},
booktitle = {2nd MethodsNET Conference (MethodsNET 2025)},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.20203092},
month = sep,
numpages = {2},
publisher = {Zenodo},
site = {Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium},
title = {Understanding Discourse-Topic Dependent Data Loss in Social Media Archives},
url = {https://downloads.the-bda.team/publications/papers/khan_2025c.pdf},
year = 2025
}
Fakhri Momeni, Felix Victor Münch, Chung-hong Chan, and Muhammad Taimoor Khan.
2025.
Session Report: Hands-On Session on the Methods Hub.
In 2nd MethodsNET Conference (MethodsNET 2025), September, 2025, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Zenodo.
doi
@InProceedings{momeni:2025d,
author = {Fakhri Momeni and Felix Victor M{\"u}nch and Chung-hong Chan and Muhammad Taimoor Khan},
booktitle = {2nd MethodsNET Conference (MethodsNET 2025)},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.20200438},
month = sep,
numpages = {4},
publisher = {Zenodo},
site = {Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium},
title = {Session Report: Hands-On Session on the Methods Hub},
url = {https://downloads.the-bda.team/publications/papers/momeni_2025d.pdf},
year = 2025
}
Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Dimitar Dimitrov, and Stefan Dietze.
2025.
Characterization of Tweet Deletion Patterns in the Context of COVID-19 Discourse and Polarization.
In 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2025), September, 2025. ACM, 43–47.
doi
@InProceedings{khan:2025a,
author = {Muhammad Taimoor Khan and Dimitar Dimitrov and Stefan Dietze},
booktitle = {36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2025)},
doi = {10.1145/3720553.3746663},
editor = {Yong Zheng and Ludovico Boratto and Charlie Hargood and Dongwon Lee},
month = sep,
pages = {43--47},
publisher = {ACM},
title = {Characterization of Tweet Deletion Patterns in the Context of COVID-19 Discourse and Polarization},
year = 2025
}
@InProceedings{momeni:2025c,
author = {Fakhri Momeni and Muhammad Taimoor Khan and Johannes Kiesel and Tony Ross-Hellauer},
booktitle = {3rd ACM Conference for Reproducibility and Replicability (REP 2025)},
doi = {10.1145/3736731.3746161},
editor = {Thomas Pasquier and Ashish Gehani and Khalid Belhajjame},
month = jul,
pages = {179--191},
publisher = {ACM},
site = {Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada},
title = {Checklists for Computational Reproducibility in Social Sciences: Insights from Literature and Survey Evaluation},
url = {https://downloads.the-bda.team/publications/papers/momeni_2025c.pdf},
year = 2025
}
Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Nasarullah Jan Wazir, Imran Khan, Muhammad Khan Afridi, and Omar Usman Khan.
2025.
Out-of-Vocabulary Pashto Spell Checker using Morphological Operations.
In 5th International Conference on Communication Technologies (ComTech 2025), April, 2025. IEEE, 1–6.
doi
@InProceedings{khan:2025b,
author = {Muhammad Taimoor Khan and Nasarullah Jan Wazir and Imran Khan and Muhammad Khan Afridi and Omar Usman Khan},
booktitle = {5th International Conference on Communication Technologies (ComTech 2025)},
doi = {10.1109/ComTech65062.2025.11034604},
month = apr,
pages = {1--6},
publisher = {IEEE},
title = {Out-of-Vocabulary Pashto Spell Checker using Morphological Operations},
year = 2025
}
@InProceedings{alaaeddin:2025a,
author = {Alaaeddin Alia and Muhammad Taimoor Khan},
booktitle = {5th Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (ROMCIR 2025)},
editor = {John Bianchi and Gregor Donabauer and Luca Herranz-Celotti},
month = apr,
pages = {1--10},
publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
title = {LLM-Based Bilingual Rumor Verification Using Evidence From Authorities},
url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3986/paper1.pdf},
year = 2025
}
Susmita Gangopadhyay, Muhammad Taimoor Khan, and Hajira Jabeen.
2024.
HybridDetox: Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Methods for Effective Multilingual Text Detoxification.
In Working Notes Papers of the CLEF 2024 Evaluation Labs, September, 2024. CEUR-WS.org, 2576–2584.
@InProceedings{gangopadhyay:2024a,
author = {Susmita Gangopadhyay and Muhammad Taimoor Khan and Hajira Jabeen},
booktitle = {Working Notes Papers of the CLEF 2024 Evaluation Labs},
editor = {Guglielmo Faggioli and Nicola Ferro and Petra Galu{\v{s}}{\v{c}}{\'a}kov{\'a} and Alba Garc{\'i}a Seco Herrera},
month = sep,
pages = {2576--2584},
publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
title = {HybridDetox: Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Methods for Effective Multilingual Text Detoxification},
year = 2024
}
Fakhri Momeni, Eleni Adamidi, Sven Ulpts, Hajira Jabeen, Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Thomas Klebel, Eva Kormann, Barbara Leitner, Allyson Lister, Elli Papadopoulou, Haris Papageorgiou, Tony Ross-Hellauer, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Jesper W. Schneider, Joeri K. Tijdink, and Thanasis Vergoulis.
2024.
TIER2 D4.2 - Pilot Implementation and Assessment Plans.
doi
@TechReport{momeni:2024a,
author = {Fakhri Momeni and Eleni Adamidi and Sven Ulpts and Hajira Jabeen and Muhammad Taimoor Khan and Thomas Klebel and Eva Kormann and Barbara Leitner and Allyson Lister and Elli Papadopoulou and Haris Papageorgiou and Tony Ross-Hellauer and Susanna-Assunta Sansone and Jesper W. Schneider and Joeri K. Tijdink and Thanasis Vergoulis},
doi = {10.17605/OSF.IO/GCT56},
month = jul,
title = {TIER2 D4.2 - Pilot Implementation and Assessment Plans},
year = 2024
}
Usman Wajid, Muhammad Hamza, Muhammad Taimoor Khan, and Nouman Azam.
2024.
A three-way decision approach for dynamically expandable networks.
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
166
(March 2024), 16 pages.
doi
@Article{wajid:2024a,
author = {Usman Wajid and Muhammad Hamza and Muhammad Taimoor Khan and Nouman Azam},
doi = {10.1016/J.IJAR.2023.109105},
journal = {International Journal of Approximate Reasoning},
month = mar,
numpages = {16},
title = {A three-way decision approach for dynamically expandable networks},
volume = {166},
year = 2024
}
Khouloud Saadi and Muhammad Taimoor Khan.
2022.
Effective Prevention of Semantic Drift in Continual Deep Learning.
In Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - 23rd International Conference (IDEAL 2022), November, 2022. Springer, 456–464.
doipreprint
@InProceedings{saadi:2022a,
author = {Khouloud Saadi and Muhammad Taimoor Khan},
booktitle = {Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - 23rd International Conference (IDEAL 2022)},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-21753-1_44},
editor = {Hujun Yin and David Camacho and Peter Ti{\~n}o},
month = nov,
pages = {456--464},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
title = {Effective Prevention of Semantic Drift in Continual Deep Learning},
volume = {13756},
year = 2022
}
Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Nouman Azam, Shehzad Khalid, and Furqan Aziz.
2022.
Hierarchical Lifelong Topic Modeling Using Rules Extracted From Network Communities.
PLOS ONE
17, 3
(March 2022), 1–22.
doi
@Article{khan:2022a,
author = {Muhammad Taimoor Khan and Nouman Azam and Shehzad Khalid and Furqan Aziz},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0264481},
journal = {PLOS ONE},
month = mar,
number = {3},
pages = {1--22},
publisher = {Public Library of Science},
title = {Hierarchical Lifelong Topic Modeling Using Rules Extracted From Network Communities},
volume = {17},
year = 2022
}
Anwar Shah, Nouman Azam, Bahar Ali, Muhammad Taimoor Khan, and Jing Tao Yao.
2021.
A Three-Way Clustering Approach for Novelty Detection.
Information Sciences
569
(August 2021), 650–668.
doi
@Article{shah:2021a,
author = {Anwar Shah and Nouman Azam and Bahar Ali and Muhammad Taimoor Khan and Jing Tao Yao},
doi = {10.1016/J.INS.2021.05.021},
journal = {Information Sciences},
month = aug,
pages = {650--668},
title = {A Three-Way Clustering Approach for Novelty Detection},
volume = {569},
year = 2021
}
Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Shehzad Khalid, and Furqan Aziz.
2018.
Graph Clustering Based Size Varying Rules for Lifelong Topic Modeling.
In 5th International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ICBRA 1018), December, 2018. ACM, 73–77.
doi
@InProceedings{khan:2018a,
author = {Muhammad Taimoor Khan and Shehzad Khalid and Furqan Aziz},
booktitle = {5th International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ICBRA 1018)},
doi = {10.1145/3309129.3309146},
month = dec,
pages = {73--77},
publisher = {ACM},
title = {Graph Clustering Based Size Varying Rules for Lifelong Topic Modeling},
year = 2018
}
Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Nouman Azam, Shehzad Khalid, and Jingtao Yao.
2017.
A three-way approach for learning rules in automatic knowledge-based topic models.
International Journal for Approximate Reasoning
82
(March 2017), 210–226.
doi
@Article{khan:2017a,
author = {Muhammad Taimoor Khan and Nouman Azam and Shehzad Khalid and Jingtao Yao},
doi = {10.1016/J.IJAR.2016.12.011},
journal = {International Journal for Approximate Reasoning},
month = mar,
pages = {210--226},
title = {A three-way approach for learning rules in automatic knowledge-based topic models},
volume = {82},
year = 2017
}
Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Mehr Yahya Durrani, Shehzad Khalid, and Furqan Aziz.
2016.
Lifelong Aspect Extraction from Big Data:Kknowledge eEgineering.
Complex Adaptive Systtems Model
4
(March 2016), 15 pages.
doi
@Article{khan:2016b,
author = {Muhammad Taimoor Khan and Mehr Yahya Durrani and Shehzad Khalid and Furqan Aziz},
doi = {10.1186/S40294-016-0018-7},
journal = {Complex Adaptive Systtems Model},
month = mar,
numpages = {15},
title = {Lifelong Aspect Extraction from Big Data:Kknowledge eEgineering},
volume = {4},
year = 2016
}
Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Mehr Yahya Durrani, Armughan Ali, Irum Inayat, Shehzad Khalid, and Kamran Habib Khan.
2016.
Sentiment Analysis and the Complex Natural Language.
Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling
4
(February 2016).
doi
@Article{khan:2016a,
author = {Muhammad Taimoor Khan and Mehr Yahya Durrani and Armughan Ali and Irum Inayat and Shehzad Khalid and Kamran Habib Khan},
doi = {10.1186/S40294-016-0016-9},
journal = { Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling},
month = feb,
title = {Sentiment Analysis and the Complex Natural Language},
volume = {4},
year = 2016
}
Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Mehr Yahya Durrani, Shehzad Khalid, and Furqan Aziz.
2016.
Online Knowledge-Based Model for Big Data Topic Extraction.
Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
2016
(January 2016), 1–10.
doi
@Article{khan:2016c,
author = {Muhammad Taimoor Khan and Mehr Yahya Durrani and Shehzad Khalid and Furqan Aziz},
doi = {10.1155/2016/6081804},
journal = {Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience},
month = jan,
pages = {1--10},
title = {Online Knowledge-Based Model for Big Data Topic Extraction},
volume = {2016},
year = 2016
}
Method Sharing Retreat (MESHARE) @ WebSci 2026 Tutorial. Learn how to submit to Methods Hub using your own method, held in conjunction with the 18th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci 2026), co-organized by Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Ran Yu, Felix Münch, Fakhri Momeni, Stephan Linzbach, Arnim Bleier, and Johannes Kiesel.Braunschweig, Germany.
R2CASS 2026 @ WebConf 2026 Workshop. 2nd International Workshop on Social Science Meets Web Data: Reproducible and Reusable Computational Approaches (R2CASS 2026), held in conjunction with the ACM Web Conference (WebConf 2026), co-organized by Fakhri Momeni, Arnim Bleier, Danilo Dessi, and Muhammad Taimoor Khan.Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Methods Hub @ Methoden 2025 Workshop. Interactive workshop on the Methods Hub held in conjunction with the DGPuK Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Methoden (Methoden 2025), co-organized by Felix Victor Münch, Fakhri Momeni, Muhammad Taimoor Khan, and Chung-hong Chan.Salzgitter, Germany.
MethodsNET 2025 Conference. 2nd MethodsNET Conference, co-organized by Ulrike Lühe, Muhammad Taimoor Khan, and Benoît Rihoux.Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Hands-on Methods Hub @ MethodsNET 2025 Tutorial. Hands-on session on the Methods Hub held in conjunction with the 2nd MethodsNET Conference (MethodsNET 2025), co-organized by Fakhri Momeni, Felix Victor Münch, Chung-hong Chan, and Muhammad Taimoor Khan.Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
R2CASS 2025 @ ICWSM 2025 Workshop. 1st International Workshop on Social Science Meets Web Data: Reproducible and Reusable Computational Approaches (R2CASS 2025), held in conjunction with the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2025), co-organized by Fakhri Momeni, Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Arnim Bleier, and Tony Ross-Hellauer.Copenhagen, Denmark.
Online Computational Reproducibility @ VaLiSTAD/ICWSM 2025 Tutorial. Learn about the Methods Hub and how to use it, held as part of the 1st Workshop on Validating Social Text-as-Data Methods (VaLiSTAD 2025), co-organized by Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Saju Lorraine, and Arnim Bleier.Copenhagen, Denmark.
