Work place: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
E-mail: ahmed.shafi@ewubd.edu
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Research Interests: Machine Learning
Biography
Ahmed Abdal Shafi Rasel is working as full time faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at East West University, Bangladesh. He holds an M.Sc. degree in Information Technology and a B.Sc. (Honors) degree in Information Technology, both from Jahangirnagar University. His research interests include Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision.
By Ahmed Abdal Shafi Rasel Md. Towhidul Islam Robin Md. Samiul Islam Mehedi Hasan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2026.02.11, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2026
Automatically classifying abstract sentences into significant categories such as - background, methods, objective, result, and conclusions - is an essential support tool for scientific medical database querying that assists in searching and summarizing relevant literature works and writing new abstracts. This paper presents a memory-efficient deep learning model for sentence role classification in medical scientific abstracts, achieved by integrating quantized Transformer layers with a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) network. While the core components are recognized, our contribution is demonstrated in the successful application of quantization to this hybrid architecture, significantly reducing model size (from ~75MB to ~25MB) without a meaningful drop in classification performance on a subset of the PubMed 200k RCT dataset. This makes our approach distinctively practical for deployment in resource-constrained environments, offering an effective tool for automated literature analysis.
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