no code implementations • CONSTRAINT (ACL) 2022 • Megha Sundriyal, Ganeshan Malhotra, Md Shad Akhtar, Shubhashis Sengupta, Andrew Fano, Tanmoy Chakraborty
The current vogue is to employ manual fact-checkers to verify claims to combat this avalanche of misinformation.
no code implementations • 11 Feb 2025 • Palaash Goel, Dushyant Singh Chauhan, Md Shad Akhtar
TURBO assumes the target of the sarcasm and guides the multimodal shared fusion mechanism in learning intricacies of the intended irony for explanations.
no code implementations • 25 Jan 2025 • Abdullah Mazhar, Zuhair Hasan Shaik, Aseem Srivastava, Polly Ruhnke, Lavanya Vaddavalli, Sri Keshav Katragadda, Shweta Yadav, Md Shad Akhtar
Next, we propose a commonsense and domain-enriched framework, M3H, to enhance MLMs' ability to interpret figurative language and commonsense knowledge.
no code implementations • 6 Jan 2025 • Aseem Srivastava, Zuhair Hasan Shaik, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md Shad Akhtar
The therapeutic bond between a patient and a therapist directly correlates with effective mental health counseling.
no code implementations • 23 Sep 2024 • Aseem Srivastava, Smriti Joshi, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md Shad Akhtar
We further benchmark PIECE with other LLMs and report improvement, including Llama-2 (+2. 72%), Mistral (+2. 04%), and Zephyr (+1. 59%), to justify the generalizability of the planning engine.
1 code implementation • 8 Aug 2024 • Megha Sundriyal, Harshit Choudhary, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md Shad Akhtar
We introduce CROWDSHIELD, a crowd intelligence-based method for early misinformation prediction.
1 code implementation • 6 Jun 2024 • Neemesh Yadav, Sarah Masud, Vikram Goyal, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Employing language models to generate explanations for an incoming implicit hate post is an active area of research.
no code implementations • 25 Mar 2024 • Kartik Kartik, Sanjana Soni, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md Shad Akhtar
In this paper, we tackle the problem of code-mixed (Hinglish and Bengalish) to English machine translation.
no code implementations • 15 Mar 2024 • Amey Hengle, Aswini Kumar, Sahajpreet Singh, Anil Bandhakavi, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakroborty
Counterspeech, defined as a response to mitigate online hate speech, is increasingly used as a non-censorial solution.
no code implementations • 29 Feb 2024 • Shivani Kumar, Md Shad Akhtar, Erik Cambria, Tanmoy Chakraborty
We present SemEval-2024 Task 10, a shared task centred on identifying emotions and finding the rationale behind their flips within monolingual English and Hindi-English code-mixed dialogues.
no code implementations • 29 Feb 2024 • Joykirat Singh, Sehban Fazili, Rohan Jain, Md Shad Akhtar
In this paper, we propose to enhance the interpretability and readability of policy documents by using controlled abstractive summarization -- we enforce the generated summaries to include critical privacy-related entities (e. g., data and medium) and organization's rationale (e. g., target and reason) in collecting those entities.
1 code implementation • 3 Feb 2024 • Sarah Masud, Mohammad Aflah Khan, Vikram Goyal, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Despite the widespread adoption, there is a lack of research into how various critical aspects of pretrained language models (PLMs) affect their performance in hate speech detection.
no code implementations • 30 Oct 2023 • Megha Sundriyal, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
However, the sheer volume of information makes it difficult to identify fake news effectively.
1 code implementation • 22 Oct 2023 • Ayan Sengupta, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
In this work, we propose TransJect, an encoder model that guarantees a theoretical bound for layer-wise distance preservation between a pair of tokens.
1 code implementation • 19 Oct 2023 • Shivani Kumar, Ramaneswaran S, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Recognizing that emotional intelligence encompasses a comprehension of worldly knowledge, we propose an innovative approach that integrates commonsense information with dialogue context to facilitate a deeper understanding of emotions.
no code implementations • 17 Sep 2023 • Megha Sundriyal, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Currently, these claims are manually verified by fact-checkers.
1 code implementation • 6 Sep 2023 • Ayan Sengupta, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
We propose a Persona-aware Generative Model for Code-mixed Generation, PARADOX, a novel Transformer-based encoder-decoder model that encodes an utterance conditioned on a user's persona and generates code-mixed texts without monolingual reference data.
no code implementations • 4 Sep 2023 • Aseem Srivastava, Tanya Gupta, Alison Cerezo, Sarah Peregrine, Lord, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Online Mental Health Communities (OMHCs), such as Reddit, have witnessed a surge in popularity as go-to platforms for seeking information and support in managing mental health needs.
no code implementations • 24 Jun 2023 • Shivani Kumar, Shubham Dudeja, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
In this paper, we explore the task called Instigator based Emotion Flip Reasoning (EFR), which aims to identify the instigator behind a speaker's emotion flip within a conversation.
no code implementations • 18 Apr 2023 • Shivani Kumar, Rishabh Gupta, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
We have evaluated various baselines on this dataset and benchmarked it with a new neural model, SPOT, which we introduce in this paper.
1 code implementation • 20 Nov 2022 • Shivani Kumar, Ishani Mondal, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
To this end, we explore the task of Sarcasm Explanation in Dialogues, which aims to unfold the hidden irony behind sarcastic utterances.
1 code implementation • 10 Oct 2022 • Megha Sundriyal, Atharva Kulkarni, Vaibhav Pulastya, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
The current vogue is to employ manual fact-checkers to efficiently classify and verify such data to combat this avalanche of claim-ridden misinformation.
1 code implementation • 8 Jun 2022 • Sarah Masud, Manjot Bedi, Mohammad Aflah Khan, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Curbing online hate speech has become the need of the hour; however, a blanket ban on such activities is infeasible for several geopolitical and cultural reasons.
1 code implementation • 27 Apr 2022 • Ayan Sengupta, Tharun Suresh, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Learning the semantics and morphology of code-mixed language remains a key challenge, due to scarcity of data and unavailability of robust and language-invariant representation learning technique.
1 code implementation • ACL 2022 • Shivani Kumar, Atharva Kulkarni, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
In this work, we study the discourse structure of sarcastic conversations and propose a novel task - Sarcasm Explanation in Dialogue (SED).
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1 code implementation • 9 Dec 2021 • Poorav Desai, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md Shad Akhtar
In this paper, we propose a novel problem -- Multimodal Sarcasm Explanation (MuSE) -- given a multimodal sarcastic post containing an image and a caption, we aim to generate a natural language explanation to reveal the intended sarcasm.
1 code implementation • 12 Nov 2021 • Ganeshan Malhotra, Abdul Waheed, Aseem Srivastava, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
We identify the requirement of such conversation and propose twelve domain-specific dialogue-act (DAC) labels.
1 code implementation • Findings (EMNLP) 2021 • Shraman Pramanick, Shivam Sharma, Dimitar Dimitrov, Md Shad Akhtar, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty
We focus on two tasks: (i)detecting harmful memes, and (ii)identifying the social entities they target.
1 code implementation • 19 Aug 2021 • Megha Sundriyal, Parantak Singh, Md Shad Akhtar, Shubhashis Sengupta, Tanmoy Chakraborty
To demarcate between a claim and a non-claim is arduous for both humans and machines, owing to latent linguistic variance between the two and the inadequacy of extensive definition-based formalization.
1 code implementation • 30 May 2021 • Ayan Sengupta, Sourabh Kumar Bhattacharjee, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md Shad Akhtar
In this paper, we propose HIT, a robust representation learning method for code-mixed texts.
1 code implementation • 20 May 2021 • Manjot Bedi, Shivani Kumar, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
In this work, we make two major contributions considering the above limitations: (1) we develop a Hindi-English code-mixed dataset, MaSaC, for the multi-modal sarcasm detection and humor classification in conversational dialog, which to our knowledge is the first dataset of its kind; (2) we propose MSH-COMICS, a novel attention-rich neural architecture for the utterance classification.
1 code implementation • 23 Mar 2021 • Shraman Pramanick, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
We evaluate MHA-MEME on the 'Memotion Analysis' dataset for all three sub-tasks - sentiment classification, affect classification, and affect class quantification.
no code implementations • 23 Mar 2021 • Shivani Kumar, Anubhav Shrimal, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Therefore, discovering the reasons (triggers) behind the speaker's emotion-flip during a conversation is essential to explain the emotion labels of individual utterances.
1 code implementation • EACL 2021 • Shreya Gupta, Parantak Singh, Megha Sundriyal, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
We resolve the latter issue by annotating a Twitter dataset which aims at providing a testing ground on a large unstructured dataset.
1 code implementation • 6 Nov 2020 • Mohit Bhardwaj, Md Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Amitava Das, Tanmoy Chakraborty
In this paper, we present a novel hostility detection dataset in Hindi language.
2 code implementations • 6 Nov 2020 • Parth Patwa, Shivam Sharma, Srinivas PYKL, Vineeth Guptha, Gitanjali Kumari, Md Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Amitava Das, Tanmoy Chakraborty
This is further exacerbated at the time of a pandemic.