Mohammad Harun Or Rashid

Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology · Department of Humanities

This paper presents an analysis of Bangla and English code switching in the university classrooms and explains it in terms of sociolinguistic perspective. Based on the empirical data from the classroom of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, this paper aims to analyze the frequency, patterns, attitudes, and factors of code switching. It...

The Rohingya crisis is one of the most severe humanitarian tragedies of our time, yet its portrayal in international media often lacks justification. Utilizing BERTopic, a transformer-based unsupervised topic modeling technique, we analyzed 8,074 news articles about the Rohingya crisis, spanning newspapers from ten countries between 2009 and 2023....

The Rohingya crisis has been a significant issue for national and international news media, capturing their attention for an extended period and documenting various phases of the crisis. Previous research exploring the tones and portrayal of the Rohingyas in the news lacks comparative and temporal analysis of news sentiments. In this study, we aim...

This research analyzes the main topics discussed on social media in Bangladesh surrounding the Rohingya crisis. Employing thematic analysis, we qualitatively analyzed 10,907 Rohingya-related comments from an equal number of social media users. Our findings reveal that users engage in discussions centered on four main topics: asylum debates, questio...

To explore how social media users react to suicide, we collected and analyzed 3,482 public comments on Bangladeshi suicide news emphasizing the user's gender, victim's gender, victim's profession, and suicide risk factor. The quantitative content analysis found that users react to suicide in nine different ways: angry, sadness, surprise, irony, rid...

Job satisfaction of tertiary-level teachers is crucial for a country as it is directly linked to quality higher education, research, and development. This study aims at measuring the level of job satisfaction of the tertiary-level teachers by investigating the factors that are directly or indirectly responsible for it. This study also conducts a st...

There has been a significant interest in the use of code-switching in the process of tertiary level teaching and learning. This interest has created a web of debates and disputes on the use of code-switching by the teachers and researchers in engineering-centric classrooms. This paper analyses the teachers' code switching in engineering-centric cla...

The sense ambiguity of characters or words on text is one of the major problems in computational linguistics' research, especially in Natural Language Processing (NLP) related fields. Homograph is one of the core sense ambiguities in Natural Language Processing (NLP). This paper exclusively discusses the linguistic aspects of homograph, especially...