1 code implementation • ICON 2020 • Kartik Verma, Shobhit Sinha, Md. Shad Akhtar, Vikram Goyal
We investigate the problem of extracting Indian-locations from a given crowd-sourced textual dataset.
no code implementations • CONSTRAINT (ACL) 2022 • Shivam Sharma, Tharun Suresh, Atharva Kulkarni, Himanshi Mathur, Preslav Nakov, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
We present the findings of the shared task at the CONSTRAINT 2022 Workshop: Hero, Villain, and Victim: Dissecting harmful memes for Semantic role labeling of entities.
no code implementations • 6 Jan 2025 • Aseem Srivastava, Gauri Naik, Alison Cerezo, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md. Shad Akhtar
Our findings show that 91% of users find the system effective, 80% express satisfaction, and over 85. 45% convey a willingness to continue using the interface and recommend it to others, demonstrating the practical applicability of EmpRes in addressing the pressing challenges of mental health support, emphasizing user feedback, and ethical considerations in a real-world context.
1 code implementation • 16 Dec 2024 • Mohammad Aflah Khan, Neemesh Yadav, Sarah Masud, Md. Shad Akhtar
The rise of large language models (LLMs) has created a need for advanced benchmarking systems beyond traditional setups.
1 code implementation • 13 Jun 2024 • Gauri Naik, Sharad Chandakacherla, Shweta Yadav, Md. Shad Akhtar
While several efforts have been made to summarize the community answers, most of them are limited to the open domain and overlook the different perspectives offered by these answers.
no code implementations • 16 Nov 2023 • Sarah Masud, Mohammad Aflah Khan, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
As hate speech continues to proliferate on the web, it is becoming increasingly important to develop computational methods to mitigate it.
1 code implementation • 25 May 2023 • Shivam Sharma, Ramaneswaran S, Udit Arora, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
In this work, we propose a novel task, MEMEX - given a meme and a related document, the aim is to mine the context that succinctly explains the background of the meme.
1 code implementation • 23 May 2023 • Rishabh Gupta, Shaily Desai, Manvi Goel, Anil Bandhakavi, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md. Shad Akhtar
Due to the complex and multifaceted nature of hate speech, utilizing multiple forms of counter-narratives with varying intents may be advantageous in different circumstances.
no code implementations • 30 Jan 2023 • Aseem Srivastava, Ishan Pandey, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Virtual Mental Health Assistants (VMHAs) have become a prevalent method for receiving mental health counseling in the digital healthcare space.
no code implementations • 26 Jan 2023 • Shivam Sharma, Atharva Kulkarni, Tharun Suresh, Himanshi Mathur, Preslav Nakov, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
A common problem associated with meme comprehension lies in detecting the entities referenced and characterizing the role of each of these entities.
2 code implementations • 1 Dec 2022 • Shivam Sharma, Siddhant Agarwal, Tharun Suresh, Preslav Nakov, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Here, we introduce a novel task - EXCLAIM, generating explanations for visual semantic role labeling in memes.
no code implementations • 29 Sep 2022 • Shivam Sharma, Mohd Khizir Siddiqui, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Existing self-supervised learning strategies are constrained to either a limited set of objectives or generic downstream tasks that predominantly target uni-modal applications.
1 code implementation • 15 Sep 2022 • Karish Grover, S. M. Phaneendra Angara, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
The surface-level signals expressed by a social-text itself may not be adequate for such tasks; therefore, recent methods attempted to incorporate other intrinsic signals such as user behavior and the underlying graph structure.
no code implementations • 8 Jun 2022 • Aseem Srivastava, Tharun Suresh, Sarah Peregrine, Lord, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
A structured counseling conversation may contain discussions about symptoms, history of mental health issues, or the discovery of the patient's behavior.
no code implementations • 24 May 2022 • Venktesh V, Md. Shad Akhtar, Mukesh Mohania, Vikram Goyal
Hence we soft label another dataset with a model fine-tuned to predict Bloom's labels to demonstrate the applicability of our method to datasets with only difficulty labels.
1 code implementation • Findings (NAACL) 2022 • Shivam Sharma, Md. Shad Akhtar, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Finally, we show that DISARM is interpretable and comparatively more generalizable and that it can reduce the relative error rate for harmful target identification by up to 9 points absolute over several strong multimodal rivals.
1 code implementation • 9 May 2022 • Shivam Sharma, Firoj Alam, Md. Shad Akhtar, Dimitar Dimitrov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Hamed Firooz, Alon Halevy, Fabrizio Silvestri, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty
One interesting finding is that many types of harmful memes are not really studied, e. g., such featuring self-harm and extremism, partly due to the lack of suitable datasets.
no code implementations • Findings (ACL) 2021 • Shraman Pramanick, Dimitar Dimitrov, Rituparna Mukherjee, Shivam Sharma, Md. Shad Akhtar, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty
In this work, we propose two novel problem formulations: detecting harmful memes and the social entities that these harmful memes target.
no code implementations • 6 Feb 2020 • Kumar Shikhar Deep, Md. Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Expressing the polarity of sentiment as 'positive' and 'negative' usually have limited scope compared with the intensity/degree of polarity.
no code implementations • IJCNLP 2019 • Dushyant Singh Chauhan, Md. Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
In this paper, we introduce a recurrent neural network based approach for the multi-modal sentiment and emotion analysis.
no code implementations • NAACL 2019 • Md. Shad Akhtar, Dushyant Singh Chauhan, Deepanway Ghosal, Soujanya Poria, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
In this paper, we present a deep multi-task learning framework that jointly performs sentiment and emotion analysis both.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Md. Shad Akhtar, Abhishek Kumar, Asif Ekbal, Chris Biemann, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
In this paper, we propose a language-agnostic deep neural network architecture for aspect-based sentiment analysis.
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
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1 code implementation • EMNLP 2018 • Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria, Alex Gelbukh, er, Md. Shad Akhtar, Erik Cambria, Asif Ekbal
Sentiment analysis has immense implications in e-commerce through user feedback mining.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2018 • Deepanway Ghosal, Md. Shad Akhtar, Dushyant Chauhan, Soujanya Poria, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
We evaluate our proposed approach on two multi-modal sentiment analysis benchmark datasets, viz.
Ranked #7 on
Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
on MOSI
no code implementations • 3 Aug 2018 • Md. Shad Akhtar, Deepanway Ghosal, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Sadao Kurohashi
In this paper, through multi-task ensemble framework we address three problems of emotion and sentiment analysis i. e. "emotion classification & intensity", "valence, arousal & dominance for emotion" and "valence & arousal} for sentiment".
no code implementations • NAACL 2018 • Md. Shad Akhtar, Palaash Sawant, Sukanta Sen, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Efficient word representations play an important role in solving various problems related to Natural Language Processing (NLP), data mining, text mining etc.
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no code implementations • EMNLP 2017 • Md. Shad Akhtar, Abhishek Kumar, Deepanway Ghosal, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
In this paper, we propose a novel method for combining deep learning and classical feature based models using a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) network for financial sentiment analysis.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Md. Shad Akhtar, Palaash Sawant, Asif Ekbal, Jyoti Pawar, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
This paper describes the system that we submitted as part of our participation in the shared task on Emotion Intensity (EmoInt-2017).
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2017 • Abhishek Kumar, Abhishek Sethi, Md. Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Chris Biemann, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
The other system was based on Support Vector Regression using word embeddings, lexicon features, and PMI scores as features.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2017 • Vikram Singh, Sunny Narayan, Md. Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
This paper describes our system participation in the SemEval-2017 Task 8 {`}RumourEval: Determining rumour veracity and support for rumours{'}.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2017 • Deepanway Ghosal, Shobhit Bhatnagar, Md. Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
In this paper we propose an ensemble based model which combines state of the art deep learning sentiment analysis algorithms like Convolution Neural Network (CNN) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) along with feature based models to identify optimistic or pessimistic sentiments associated with companies and stocks in financial texts.
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Md. Shad Akhtar, Ayush Kumar, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
The sentiment augmented optimized vector obtained at the end is used for the training of SVM for sentiment classification.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Md. Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Due to the phenomenal growth of online product reviews, sentiment analysis (SA) has gained huge attention, for example, by online service providers.
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