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[NAACL - 2025] . Link
Target-Augmented Shared Fusion-based Multimodal Sarcasm Explanation Generation. Palaash Goel, Dushyant Singh Chauhan, Md Shad Akhtar.

[The Web Conference - 2025] . Link
Figurative-cum-Commonsense Knowledge Infusion for Multimodal Mental Health Meme Classification. Abdullah Mazhar, Zuhair hasan Shaik, Aseem Srivastava, Polly Ruhnke, Lavanya Vaddavalli, Sri Keshav Katragadda, Shweta Yadav, Md Shad Akhtar.

[PLOS ONE - 2024] . Link
Critical behavioral traits foster peer engagement in Online Mental Health Communities. Aseem Srivastava, Tanya Gupta, Alison Cerezo, Sarah Peregrine (Grin) Lord, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[EMNLP - 2024] . Link
Knowledge Planning in Large Language Models for Domain-Aligned Counseling Summarization. Aseem Srivastava, Smriti Joshi, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md Shad Akhtar.

[ICLR - 2024] . Link
A Good Learner can Teach Better: TEACHER-STUDENT COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION. Ayan Sengupta, Shantanu Dixit, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[ACL - 2024] . Link
Tox-BART: Leveraging Toxicity Attributes for Explanation Generation of Implicit Hate Speech(Findings). Neemesh Yadav, Sarah Masud, Vikram Goyal, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[Humanit Soc. - 2024] . Link
Social, Economic and Demographic Factors Drive the Emergence of Hinglish Code-mixing on Social Media, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. Ayan Sengupta, Soham Das, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[COLING - 2024] . Link
Adding SPICE to Life: Speaker Profiling in Multiparty Conversations. Shivani Kumar, Rishabh Gupta, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[COLING - 2024] . Link
Synthetic Data Generation and Joint Learning for Robust Code-Mixed Translation. Kartik Kartik, Sanjana Soni, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md Shad Akhtar.

[EACL - 2024] . Link
Probing Critical Learning Dynamics of LLMs for Hate Speech Detection(Findings). Sarah Masud, Mohammad Aflah Khan, Vikram Goyal, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[EMNLP - 2023] . Link
From Multilingual Complexity to Emotional Clarity: Leveraging Commonsense to Unveil Emotions in Code-Mixed Dialogues. Shivani Kumar, Ramaneswaran S, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[EMNLP (Findings) - 2023] . Link
Manifold-Preserving Transformers are Effective for Short-Long Range Encoding. Ayan Sengupta, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[IEEE TAI - 2023] . Link
Emotion Flip Reasoning in Multiparty Conversations. Shivani Kumar, Shubham Dudeja, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[ACL - 2023] . Link
MEMEX: Detecting Explanatory Evidence for Memes via Knowledge-Enriched Contextualization. Shivam Sharma, Ramaneswaran S, Udit Arora, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[ACL - 2023] . Link
Counterspeeches up my sleeve! Intent Distribution Learning and Persistent Fusion for Intent-Conditioned Counterspeech Generation. Shaily Desai, Rishabh Gupta, Manvi Goel, Anil Bandhakavi, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[IEEE TCSS - 2023] . Link
HostileNet: Multi-Label Hostile Post Detection in Hindi. Mohit Bhardwaj, Megha Sundriyal, Manjot Bedi, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[WWW - 2023] . Link
Response-act Guided Reinforced Dialogue Generation for Mental Health Counseling. Aseem Srivastava, Ishan Pandey, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[EACL - 2023] . Link
Characterizing the Entities in Harmful Memes: Who is the Hero, the Villain, the Victim?. Shivam Sharma, Atharva Kulkarni, Tharun Suresh, Himanshi Mathur, Preslav Nakov, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[AAAI - 2023] . Link
What do you MEME? Generating Explanations for Visual Semantic Role Labelling in Memes. Shivam Sharma, Siddhant Agarwal, Tharun Suresh, Preslav Nakov, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[AAAI - 2023] . Link
Explaining (Sarcastic) Utterances to Enhance Affect Understanding in Multimodal Dialogues. Shivani Kumar, Ishani Mondal, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[Findings of EMNLP - 2023] . Link
Dehumorization of Offensive Text via Exaggeration Neutralization. Manjot Bedi, Mohit Bhardwaj, Megha Sundriyal, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[NAACL - 2022] . Link
Synthetic Code-Mixed Data Generation Using Matrix Factorization. Ayan Sengupta, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[TACL - 2022] . Link
A Taxonomy of English-Hindi Code-mixing: An Empirical Study and Dataset. Ayan Sengupta, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[AAAI - 2022] . Link
Interpretable Visual Hate Speech Detection. Shivam Sharma, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[EMNLP - 2022] . Link
Hate Speech Detection in Low-resource Languages: A Benchmark Dataset and Transfer Learning Experiments. Shivam Sharma, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[Findings of ACL - 2022] . Link
Towards Explainable Hate Speech Detection via Progressive Layer-wise Conceptualization. Shivam Sharma, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[Findings of ACL - 2022] . Link
Code-mixed Hate Speech Classification: A Transfer Learning Approach. Ayan Sengupta, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[EMNLP - 2022] . Link
Explaining Toxicity in Code-mixed Language: Towards Interpretable Code-mixed Offensive Language Detection. Ayan Sengupta, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[AAAI - 2021] . Link
HateXplain: A Benchmark Dataset for Explainable Hate Speech Detection. Shivam Sharma, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[ICWSM - 2021] . Link
Leveraging Pre-trained Language Models for Offensive Language Identification. Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty.

[ACM TIST - 2021] . Link
Self-Destruction: Detecting Offensive Text in User Interactions. Md Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya.

[EMNLP - 2021] . Link
Towards Measuring Social Biases in Conversational AI. Md Shad Akhtar, Punyajoy Saha, Pawan Goyal, Animesh Mukherjee, Md Shad Akhtar.

[IEEE Intelligent Systems - 2021] . Link
Exploring the Role of Personalization in Sarcasm Detection. Md Shad Akhtar, Md. Shad Akhtar, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Asif Ekbal.

[EACL - 2021] . Link
Multi-task Learning for Emotion Identification and Sarcasm Detection. Md Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya.

[EACL - 2021] . Link
How Emotions Influence Sarcasm in Tweets: A Multi-task Approach. Md Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya.

[Findings of EMNLP - 2020] . Link
Personalized Emotion Identification for Mental Health Support in Online Forums. Md Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya.

[COLING - 2020] . Link
Detecting Harmful Online Conversations in Code-mixed Language. Md Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya.

[COLING - 2020] . Link
A Multi-task Framework to Detect Hostility and Counter-Speech in Code-mixed Conversations. Md Shad Akhtar, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya.

[NAACL - 2020] . Link
Towards Responsible AI: Detecting and Mitigating Bias in Conversational Agents. Md Shad Akhtar, Punyajoy Saha, Pawan Goyal, Animesh Mukherjee.

[LREC - 2020] . Link
A Dataset for Document-level Multilingual Opinion Mining. Md Shad Akhtar, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Asif Ekbal.

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