Asif Ekbal

Learning to Ask: Multi-Decoder Fine-Tuning for Multi-Hop Visual Question Generation with External Knowledge EACL 2026 PRISMA: Preference-Reinforced Self-Training Approach for Interpretable Emotionally Intelligent Negotiation Dialogues ACL 2026 Federated Model Synchronization for Diagnostic Redefinition through a Novel Selective Parameter Unlearning WACV 2026 Mind the Pause: Disfluency-Aware Objective Tuning for Multilingual Speech Correction with LLMs ACL 2026 Facilitating Early Maladaptive Schema–Guided Polite and Empathetic Psychotherapeutic Support: An LLM-Driven MoE-RL-Based Dialogue System AAAI 2026 Indic-TunedLens: Interpreting Multilingual Models in Indian Languages EACL 2026 A Survey of Quantum Natural Language Processing: From Compositional Models to NISQ-Era Empiricism AACL 2025 Findings of the JUST-NLP 2025 Shared Task on English-to-Hindi Legal Machine Translation AACL 2025 Findings of the JUST-NLP 2025 Shared Task on Summarization of Indian Court Judgments AACL 2025 Overview of the 1st Workshop on NLP for Empowering Justice AACL 2025 VideoChain: A Transformer-Based Framework for Multi-hop Video Question Generation AACL 2025 MENDER: Multi-hop Commonsense and Domain-specific CoT Reasoning for Knowledge-grounded Empathetic Counseling of Crime Victims NAACL 2025 MixRevDetect: Towards Detecting AI-Generated Content in Hybrid Peer Reviews. NAACL 2025 Does Vision Still Help? Multimodal Translation with CLIP-Based Image Selection IJCNLP 2025 A Survey of Quantum Natural Language Processing: From Compositional Models to NISQ-Era Empiricism IJCNLP 2025 Findings of the JUST-NLP 2025 Shared Task on English-to-Hindi Legal Machine Translation IJCNLP 2025 Findings of the JUST-NLP 2025 Shared Task on Summarization of Indian Court Judgments IJCNLP 2025 Overview of the 1st Workshop on NLP for Empowering Justice IJCNLP 2025 VideoChain: A Transformer-Based Framework for Multi-hop Video Question Generation IJCNLP 2025 What is Beneath Misogyny: Misogynous Memes Classification and Explanation IJCAI 2025 Tackling Low-Resource NMT with Instruction-Tuned LLaMA: A Study on Kokborok and Bodo EMNLP 2025 Evaluation of LLM for English to Hindi Legal Domain Machine Translation Systems EMNLP 2025 Instruction-Tuned English to Bhojpuri Neural Machine Translation Using Contrastive Preference Optimization EMNLP 2025 We Argue to Agree: Towards Personality-Driven Argumentation-Based Negotiation Dialogue Systems for Tourism EMNLP 2025 Can Large Language Models Unlock Novel Scientific Research Ideas? EMNLP 2025 MemeDetoxNet: Balancing Toxicity Reduction and Context Preservation ACL 2025 Just a Scratch: Enhancing LLM Capabilities for Self-harm Detection through Intent Differentiation and Emoji Interpretation ACL 2025 Transforming Code Understanding: Clustering-Based Retrieval for Improved Summarization in Domain-Specific Languages COLING 2025 MedEx: Enhancing Medical Question-Answering with First-Order Logic based Reasoning and Knowledge Injection COLING 2025 Breaking Barriers: A Paradigm Shift in Technology Accessibility for Individuals with Physical Disabilities AAAI 2025 GENTEEL-NEGOTIATOR: LLM-Enhanced Mixture-of-Expert-Based Reinforcement Learning Approach for Polite Negotiation Dialogue AAAI 2025 Does Vision Still Help? Multimodal Translation with CLIP-Based Image Selection AACL 2025 M3Hop-CoT: Misogynous Meme Identification with Multimodal Multi-hop Chain-of-Thought EMNLP 2024 Well, Now We Know! Unveiling Sarcasm: Initiating and Exploring Multimodal Conversations with Reasoning AAAI 2024 Benchmarking Cyber Harassment Dialogue Comprehension through Emotion-Informed Manifestations-Determinants Demarcation AAAI 2024 CM-Off-Meme: Code-Mixed Hindi-English Offensive Meme Detection with Multi-Task Learning by Leveraging Contextual Knowledge COLING 2024 Longform Multimodal Lay Summarization of Scientific Papers: Towards Automatically Generating Science Blogs from Research Articles COLING 2024 Knowledge-enhanced Response Generation in Dialogue Systems: Current Advancements and Emerging Horizons COLING 2024 Unintended Bias Detection and Mitigation in Misogynous Memes EACL 2024 ECIS-VQG: Generation of Entity-centric Information-seeking Questions from Videos EMNLP 2024 BiasWipe: Mitigating Unintended Bias in Text Classifiers through Model Interpretability EMNLP 2024 ABLE: Personalized Disability Support with Politeness and Empathy Integration EMNLP 2024 Deciphering Cognitive Distortions in Patient-Doctor Mental Health Conversations: A Multimodal LLM-Based Detection and Reasoning Framework EMNLP 2024 ‘Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?’ Who will watch the watchmen? On Detecting AI-generated peer-reviews EMNLP 2024 Hope ‘The Paragraph Guy’ explains the rest : Introducing MeSum, the Meme Summarizer EMNLP 2024 Seeing Through VisualBERT: A Causal Adventure on Memetic Landscapes EMNLP 2024 TRIP NEGOTIATOR: A Travel Persona-aware Reinforced Dialogue Generation Model for Personalized Integrative Negotiation in Tourism EMNLP 2024 MedLogic-AQA: Enhancing Medicare Question Answering with Abstractive Models Focusing on Logical Structures EMNLP 2024 Domain Dynamics: Evaluating Large Language Models in English-Hindi Translation EMNLP 2024 SEMANTIFY: Unveiling Memes with Robust Interpretability beyond Input Attribution IJCAI 2024 From Pink and Blue to a Rainbow Hue! Defying Gender Bias through Gender Neutralizing Text Transformations IJCAI 2024 On the Way to Gentle AI Counselor: Politeness Cause Elicitation and Intensity Tagging in Code-mixed Hinglish Conversations for Social Good NAACL 2024 e-THERAPIST: I suggest you to cultivate a mindset of positivity and nurture uplifting thoughts EMNLP 2023 Elevating Code-mixed Text Handling through Auditory Information of Words EMNLP 2023 When Reviewers Lock Horns: Finding Disagreements in Scientific Peer Reviews EMNLP 2023 Reference Free Domain Adaptation for Translation of Noisy Questions with Question Specific Rewards EMNLP 2023 INA: An Integrative Approach for Enhancing Negotiation Strategies with Reward-Based Dialogue Agent EMNLP 2023 The Persuasive Memescape: Understanding Effectiveness and Societal Implications of Internet Memes IJCNLP 2023 The Persuasive Memescape: Understanding Effectiveness and Societal Implications of Internet Memes AACL 2023 Mixing It Up: Inducing Empathy and Politeness using Multiple Behaviour-aware Generators for Conversational Systems AACL 2023 APCS: Towards Argument Based Pros and Cons Summarization of Peer Reviews AACL 2023 APCS: Towards Argument Based Pros and Cons Summarization of Peer Reviews IJCNLP 2023 Help Me Heal: A Reinforced Polite and Empathetic Mental Health and Legal Counseling Dialogue System for Crime Victims AAAI 2023 RPTCS: A Reinforced Persona-aware Topic-guiding Conversational System EACL 2023 Promoting Gender Equality through Gender-biased Language Analysis in Social Media IJCAI 2023 PARTNER: A Persuasive Mental Health and Legal Counselling Dialogue System for Women and Children Crime Victims IJCAI 2023 PAL to Lend a Helping Hand: Towards Building an Emotion Adaptive Polite and Empathetic Counseling Conversational Agent ACL 2023 A Unified Framework for Emotion Identification and Generation in Dialogues EACL 2023 Mixing It Up: Inducing Empathy and Politeness using Multiple Behaviour-aware Generators for Conversational Systems IJCNLP 2023 Standardizing Distress Analysis: Emotion-Driven Distress Identification and Cause Extraction (DICE) in Multimodal Online Posts EMNLP 2023 A Sentiment and Emotion Aware Multimodal Multiparty Humor Recognition in Multilingual Conversational Setting COLING 2022 Transfer Learning for Humor Detection by Twin Masked Yellow Muppets IJCNLP 2022 PoliSe: Reinforcing Politeness Using User Sentiment for Customer Care Response Generation COLING 2022 EM-PERSONA: EMotion-assisted Deep Neural Framework for PERSONAlity Subtyping from Suicide Notes COLING 2022 PEPDS: A Polite and Empathetic Persuasive Dialogue System for Charity Donation COLING 2022 Team AINLPML @ MuP in SDP 2021: Scientific Document Summarization by End-to-End Extractive and Abstractive Approach COLING 2022 CDialog: A Multi-turn Covid-19 Conversation Dataset for Entity-Aware Dialog Generation EMNLP 2022 Investigating Effectiveness of Multi-Encoder for Conversational Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2022 COMMA-DEER: COmmon-sense Aware Multimodal Multitask Approach for Detection of Emotion and Emotional Reasoning in Conversations COLING 2022 Adversarial Sample Generation for Aspect based Sentiment Classification AACL 2022 MMM: An Emotion and Novelty-aware Approach for Multilingual Multimodal Misinformation Detection AACL 2022 Transfer Learning for Humor Detection by Twin Masked Yellow Muppets AACL 2022 Team IITP-AINLPML at WASSA 2022: Empathy Detection, Emotion Classification and Personality Detection ACL 2022 Am I No Good? Towards Detecting Perceived Burdensomeness and Thwarted Belongingness from Suicide Notes IJCAI 2022 Empathetic Persuasion: Reinforcing Empathy and Persuasiveness in Dialogue Systems NAACL 2022 Commonsense and Named Entity Aware Knowledge Grounded Dialogue Generation NAACL 2022 IITP-MT at WAT2021: Indic-English Multilingual Neural Machine Translation using Romanized Vocabulary IJCNLP 2021 Modelling Context Emotions using Multi-task Learning for Emotion Controlled Dialog Generation EACL 2021 IITP-MT at WAT2021: Indic-English Multilingual Neural Machine Translation using Romanized Vocabulary ACL 2021 IITP at WAT 2021: System description for English-Hindi Multimodal Translation Task ACL 2021 More the Merrier: Towards Multi-Emotion and Intensity Controllable Response Generation AAAI 2021 Product Review Translation: Parallel Corpus Creation and Robustness towards User-generated Noisy Text ACL 2021 IITP at WAT 2021: System description for English-Hindi Multimodal Translation Task IJCNLP 2021 Product Review Translation: Parallel Corpus Creation and Robustness towards User-generated Noisy Text IJCNLP 2021 IITP-MT at CALCS2021: English to Hinglish Neural Machine Translation using Unsupervised Synthetic Code-Mixed Parallel Corpus NAACL 2021 Towards Developing a Multilingual and Code-Mixed Visual Question Answering System by Knowledge Distillation EMNLP 2021 A Unified Framework for Multilingual and Code-Mixed Visual Question Answering AACL 2020 MultiDM-GCN: Aspect-guided Response Generation in Multi-domain Multi-modal Dialogue System using Graph Convolutional Network EMNLP 2020 A Semi-supervised Approach to Generate the Code-Mixed Text using Pre-trained Encoder and Transfer Learning EMNLP 2020 Unsupervised Aspect-Level Sentiment Controllable Style Transfer AACL 2020 All-in-One: A Deep Attentive Multi-task Learning Framework for Humour, Sarcasm, Offensive, Motivation, and Sentiment on Memes AACL 2020 Sentiment and Emotion help Sarcasm? A Multi-task Learning Framework for Multi-Modal Sarcasm, Sentiment and Emotion Analysis ACL 2020 Reinforced Multi-task Approach for Multi-hop Question Generation COLING 2020 IITP-AINLPML at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Offensive Tweet Identification and Target Categorization in a Multitask Environment COLING 2020 MEISD: A Multimodal Multi-Label Emotion, Intensity and Sentiment Dialogue Dataset for Emotion Recognition and Sentiment Analysis in Conversations COLING 2020 IITP-AINLPML at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Offensive Tweet Identification and Target Categorization in a Multitask Environment SEMEVAL 2020 IITP at MEDIQA 2019: Systems Report for Natural Language Inference, Question Entailment and Question Answering ACL 2019 Context-aware Interactive Attention for Multi-modal Sentiment and Emotion Analysis EMNLP 2019 NLP at SemEval-2019 Task 6: Detecting Offensive language using Neural Networks SEMEVAL 2019 Context-aware Interactive Attention for Multi-modal Sentiment and Emotion Analysis IJCNLP 2019 Parallel Corpus Filtering Based on Fuzzy String Matching ACL 2019 IITP-MT System for Gujarati-English News Translation Task at WMT 2019 ACL 2019 Ordinal and Attribute Aware Response Generation in a Multimodal Dialogue System ACL 2019 A Unified Multi-task Adversarial Learning Framework for Pharmacovigilance Mining ACL 2019 Multilingual Unsupervised NMT using Shared Encoder and Language-Specific Decoders ACL 2019 Multi-task Learning for Multi-modal Emotion Recognition and Sentiment Analysis NAACL 2019 Courteously Yours: Inducing courteous behavior in Customer Care responses using Reinforced Pointer Generator Network NAACL 2019 DeepSentiPeer: Harnessing Sentiment in Review Texts to Recommend Peer Review Decisions ACL 2019 Fine-Grained Temporal Orientation and its Relationship with Psycho-Demographic Correlates NAACL 2018 Uncovering Code-Mixed Challenges: A Framework for Linguistically Driven Question Generation and Neural Based Question Answering CONLL 2018 Multi-Task Learning Framework for Mining Crowd Intelligence towards Clinical Treatment NAACL 2018 IARM: Inter-Aspect Relation Modeling with Memory Networks in Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis EMNLP 2018 Contextual Inter-modal Attention for Multi-modal Sentiment Analysis EMNLP 2018 An Ensemble Approach for Aggression Identification in English and Hindi Text COLING 2018 Novelty Goes Deep. A Deep Neural Solution To Document Level Novelty Detection COLING 2018 Can Taxonomy Help? Improving Semantic Question Matching using Question Taxonomy COLING 2018 Solving Data Sparsity for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis Using Cross-Linguality and Multi-Linguality NAACL 2018 IIT-UHH at SemEval-2017 Task 3: Exploring Multiple Features for Community Question Answering and Implicit Dialogue Identification SEMEVAL 2017 IITP at SemEval-2017 Task 8 : A Supervised Approach for Rumour Evaluation SEMEVAL 2017 IITPB at SemEval-2017 Task 5: Sentiment Prediction in Financial Text SEMEVAL 2017 Entity Extraction in Biomedical Corpora: An Approach to Evaluate Word Embedding Features with PSO based Feature Selection EACL 2017 IITP at SemEval-2017 Task 5: An Ensemble of Deep Learning and Feature Based Models for Financial Sentiment Analysis SEMEVAL 2017 IITP at IJCNLP-2017 Task 4: Auto Analysis of Customer Feedback using CNN and GRU Network IJCNLP 2017 A Multilayer Perceptron based Ensemble Technique for Fine-grained Financial Sentiment Analysis EMNLP 2017 Temporal Orientation of Tweets for Predicting Income of Users ACL 2017 A Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture for Sentiment Analysis COLING 2016 IIT-TUDA at SemEval-2016 Task 5: Beyond Sentiment Lexicon: Combining Domain Dependency and Distributional Semantics Features for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis SEMEVAL 2016 IITPSemEval: Sentiment Discovery from 140 Characters SEMEVAL 2015 IITPatna: Supervised Approach for Sentiment Analysis in Twitter SEMEVAL 2014 IITP: Supervised Machine Learning for Aspect based Sentiment Analysis SEMEVAL 2014 IITP: A Supervised Approach for Disorder Mention Detection and Disambiguation SEMEVAL 2014 Indian Institute of Technology-Patna: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter SEMEVAL 2014 JU_CSE: A CRF Based Approach to Annotation of Temporal Expression, Event and Temporal Relations SEMEVAL 2013 Adapting a State-of-the-art Anaphora Resolution System for Resource-poor Language IJCNLP 2013 Differential Evolution Based Feature Selection and Classifier Ensemble for Named Entity Recognition COLING 2012 Single and multi-objective optimization for feature selection in anaphora resolution IJCNLP 2011 Multi-metric optimization for coreference: The UniTN / IITP / Essex submission to the 2011 CONLL Shared Task CONLL 2011 JU_CSE_TEMP: A First Step towards Evaluating Events, Time Expressions and Temporal Relations SEMEVAL 2010 Bengali, Hindi and Telugu to English Ad-hoc Bilingual Task IJCNLP 2008 Language Independent Named Entity Recognition in Indian Languages IJCNLP 2008 Bengali Named Entity Recognition Using Support Vector Machine IJCNLP 2008 Named Entity Recognition in Bengali: A Conditional Random Field Approach IJCNLP 2008 Development of Bengali Named Entity Tagged Corpus and its Use in NER Systems IJCNLP 2008 A Modified Joint Source-Channel Model for Transliteration ACL 2006 A Modified Joint Source-Channel Model for Transliteration COLING 2006