Asif Ekbal

153 papers · 2006–2026 · 12 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (12) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌍 Conference Polyglot (12) 🏃 Academic Marathon (20) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (13) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (10) 🏠 Conference Loyalist (31) 🏆 Keyword Champion (15) 🌱 Topic Pioneer 🤝 Dynamic Duo (47) 🔬 Deep Specialist (28) 🧬 Topic Evolution 📈 Trend Setter 💎 Century Club (145) 🔥 Unstoppable (17) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (429) ❓ The Questioner (6) ⚡ Prolific Year (18) 🚀 Conference Pioneer

Conferences

EMNLP (31) IJCNLP (22) COLING (20) ACL (17) AACL (15) SEMEVAL (14) NAACL (11) AAAI (7) EACL (7) IJCAI (6) CONLL (2) WACV (1)

Top co-authors

Pushpak Bhattacharyya (47) Mauajama Firdaus (15) Sandeep Kumar (14) Priyanshu Priya (13) Kshetrimayum Boynao Singh (11) Kshitij Mishra (11) Soumitra Ghosh (11) Tirthankar Ghosal (10) Md Shad Akhtar (10) Baban Gain (10)

Research topics

Natural Language Processing (1)

Keywords

sentiment analysis (19) text classification (18) emotion recognition (15) neural machine translation (15) multi-task learning (15) reinforcement learning (15) dialogue system (14) multimodal learning (14) large language model (11) attention mechanism (8) multitask learning (7) domain adaptation (6) neural network (6) dialogue generation (6) transformer model (5) reward function (5) convolutional neural network (5) deep learning (5) transfer learning (4) sentiment classification (4)

Papers

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

Learning to Ask: Multi-Decoder Fine-Tuning for Multi-Hop Visual Question Generation with External Knowledge EACL 2026

Federated Model Synchronization for Diagnostic Redefinition through a Novel Selective Parameter Unlearning WACV 2026

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

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

MENDER: Multi-hop Commonsense and Domain-specific CoT Reasoning for Knowledge-grounded Empathetic Counseling of Crime Victims NAACL 2025

VideoChain: A Transformer-Based Framework for Multi-hop Video Question Generation AACL 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

MedEx: Enhancing Medical Question-Answering with First-Order Logic based Reasoning and Knowledge Injection COLING 2025

Transforming Code Understanding: Clustering-Based Retrieval for Improved Summarization in Domain-Specific Languages COLING 2025

Just a Scratch: Enhancing LLM Capabilities for Self-harm Detection through Intent Differentiation and Emoji Interpretation ACL 2025

MemeDetoxNet: Balancing Toxicity Reduction and Context Preservation ACL 2025

Does Vision Still Help? Multimodal Translation with CLIP-Based Image Selection AACL 2025

From Pink and Blue to a Rainbow Hue! Defying Gender Bias through Gender Neutralizing Text Transformations IJCAI 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

M3Hop-CoT: Misogynous Meme Identification with Multimodal Multi-hop Chain-of-Thought 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

On the Way to Gentle AI Counselor: Politeness Cause Elicitation and Intensity Tagging in Code-mixed Hinglish Conversations for Social Good NAACL 2024

APCS: Towards Argument Based Pros and Cons Summarization of Peer Reviews IJCNLP 2023

Standardizing Distress Analysis: Emotion-Driven Distress Identification and Cause Extraction (DICE) in Multimodal Online Posts EMNLP 2023

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

RPTCS: A Reinforced Persona-aware Topic-guiding Conversational System EACL 2023

The Persuasive Memescape: Understanding Effectiveness and Societal Implications of Internet Memes IJCNLP 2023

Help Me Heal: A Reinforced Polite and Empathetic Mental Health and Legal Counseling Dialogue System for Crime Victims AAAI 2023

APCS: Towards Argument Based Pros and Cons Summarization of Peer Reviews AACL 2023

Mixing It Up: Inducing Empathy and Politeness using Multiple Behaviour-aware Generators for Conversational Systems AACL 2023

The Persuasive Memescape: Understanding Effectiveness and Societal Implications of Internet Memes AACL 2023

A Unified Framework for Emotion Identification and Generation in Dialogues EACL 2023

PARTNER: A Persuasive Mental Health and Legal Counselling Dialogue System for Women and Children Crime Victims IJCAI 2023

Promoting Gender Equality through Gender-biased Language Analysis in Social Media IJCAI 2023

Mixing It Up: Inducing Empathy and Politeness using Multiple Behaviour-aware Generators for Conversational Systems IJCNLP 2023

PAL to Lend a Helping Hand: Towards Building an Emotion Adaptive Polite and Empathetic Counseling Conversational Agent ACL 2023

Transfer Learning for Humor Detection by Twin Masked Yellow Muppets AACL 2022

Team AINLPML @ MuP in SDP 2021: Scientific Document Summarization by End-to-End Extractive and Abstractive Approach COLING 2022

COMMA-DEER: COmmon-sense Aware Multimodal Multitask Approach for Detection of Emotion and Emotional Reasoning in Conversations COLING 2022

Am I No Good? Towards Detecting Perceived Burdensomeness and Thwarted Belongingness from Suicide Notes IJCAI 2022

A Sentiment and Emotion Aware Multimodal Multiparty Humor Recognition in Multilingual Conversational Setting COLING 2022

PoliSe: Reinforcing Politeness Using User Sentiment for Customer Care Response Generation COLING 2022

Team IITP-AINLPML at WASSA 2022: Empathy Detection, Emotion Classification and Personality Detection ACL 2022

EM-PERSONA: EMotion-assisted Deep Neural Framework for PERSONAlity Subtyping from Suicide Notes COLING 2022

Transfer Learning for Humor Detection by Twin Masked Yellow Muppets IJCNLP 2022

Commonsense and Named Entity Aware Knowledge Grounded Dialogue Generation NAACL 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

PEPDS: A Polite and Empathetic Persuasive Dialogue System for Charity Donation COLING 2022

Empathetic Persuasion: Reinforcing Empathy and Persuasiveness in Dialogue Systems NAACL 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

IITP at WAT 2021: System description for English-Hindi Multimodal Translation Task IJCNLP 2021

Modelling Context Emotions using Multi-task Learning for Emotion Controlled Dialog Generation EACL 2021

Towards Developing a Multilingual and Code-Mixed Visual Question Answering System by Knowledge Distillation EMNLP 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

Product Review Translation: Parallel Corpus Creation and Robustness towards User-generated Noisy Text ACL 2021

More the Merrier: Towards Multi-Emotion and Intensity Controllable Response Generation AAAI 2021

IITP-MT at CALCS2021: English to Hinglish Neural Machine Translation using Unsupervised Synthetic Code-Mixed Parallel Corpus NAACL 2021

Product Review Translation: Parallel Corpus Creation and Robustness towards User-generated Noisy Text IJCNLP 2021

IITP-MT at WAT2021: Indic-English Multilingual Neural Machine Translation using Romanized Vocabulary IJCNLP 2021

All-in-One: A Deep Attentive Multi-task Learning Framework for Humour, Sarcasm, Offensive, Motivation, and Sentiment on Memes AACL 2020

MEISD: A Multimodal Multi-Label Emotion, Intensity and Sentiment Dialogue Dataset for Emotion Recognition and Sentiment Analysis in Conversations COLING 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 SEMEVAL 2020

IITP-AINLPML at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Offensive Tweet Identification and Target Categorization in a Multitask Environment COLING 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

Sentiment and Emotion help Sarcasm? A Multi-task Learning Framework for Multi-Modal Sarcasm, Sentiment and Emotion Analysis ACL 2020

Unsupervised Aspect-Level Sentiment Controllable Style Transfer AACL 2020

A Unified Framework for Multilingual and Code-Mixed Visual Question Answering AACL 2020

Courteously Yours: Inducing courteous behavior in Customer Care responses using Reinforced Pointer Generator Network NAACL 2019

Context-aware Interactive Attention for Multi-modal Sentiment and Emotion Analysis IJCNLP 2019

Ordinal and Attribute Aware Response Generation in a Multimodal Dialogue System ACL 2019

DeepSentiPeer: Harnessing Sentiment in Review Texts to Recommend Peer Review Decisions ACL 2019

IITP-MT System for Gujarati-English News Translation Task at WMT 2019 ACL 2019

Multilingual Unsupervised NMT using Shared Encoder and Language-Specific Decoders ACL 2019

A Unified Multi-task Adversarial Learning Framework for Pharmacovigilance Mining ACL 2019

Parallel Corpus Filtering Based on Fuzzy String Matching ACL 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 EMNLP 2019

Multi-task Learning for Multi-modal Emotion Recognition and Sentiment Analysis NAACL 2019

IITP at MEDIQA 2019: Systems Report for Natural Language Inference, Question Entailment and Question Answering ACL 2019

Contextual Inter-modal Attention for Multi-modal Sentiment Analysis EMNLP 2018

Uncovering Code-Mixed Challenges: A Framework for Linguistically Driven Question Generation and Neural Based Question Answering CONLL 2018

IARM: Inter-Aspect Relation Modeling with Memory Networks in Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis EMNLP 2018

Solving Data Sparsity for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis Using Cross-Linguality and Multi-Linguality NAACL 2018

Fine-Grained Temporal Orientation and its Relationship with Psycho-Demographic Correlates NAACL 2018

Multi-Task Learning Framework for Mining Crowd Intelligence towards Clinical Treatment NAACL 2018

Can Taxonomy Help? Improving Semantic Question Matching using Question Taxonomy COLING 2018

Novelty Goes Deep. A Deep Neural Solution To Document Level Novelty Detection COLING 2018

An Ensemble Approach for Aggression Identification in English and Hindi Text COLING 2018

IITPB at SemEval-2017 Task 5: Sentiment Prediction in Financial Text SEMEVAL 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

Temporal Orientation of Tweets for Predicting Income of Users ACL 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 8 : A Supervised Approach for Rumour Evaluation SEMEVAL 2017

A Multilayer Perceptron based Ensemble Technique for Fine-grained Financial Sentiment Analysis EMNLP 2017

IIT-UHH at SemEval-2017 Task 3: Exploring Multiple Features for Community Question Answering and Implicit Dialogue Identification SEMEVAL 2017

IIT-TUDA at SemEval-2016 Task 5: Beyond Sentiment Lexicon: Combining Domain Dependency and Distributional Semantics Features for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis SEMEVAL 2016

A Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture for Sentiment Analysis COLING 2016

IITPSemEval: Sentiment Discovery from 140 Characters SEMEVAL 2015

IITP: A Supervised Approach for Disorder Mention Detection and Disambiguation SEMEVAL 2014

IITPatna: Supervised Approach for Sentiment Analysis in Twitter SEMEVAL 2014

Indian Institute of Technology-Patna: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter SEMEVAL 2014

IITP: Supervised Machine Learning for Aspect based Sentiment Analysis 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

Multi-metric optimization for coreference: The UniTN / IITP / Essex submission to the 2011 CONLL Shared Task CONLL 2011

Single and multi-objective optimization for feature selection in anaphora resolution IJCNLP 2011

JU_CSE_TEMP: A First Step towards Evaluating Events, Time Expressions and Temporal Relations SEMEVAL 2010

Language Independent Named Entity Recognition in Indian Languages IJCNLP 2008

Development of Bengali Named Entity Tagged Corpus and its Use in NER Systems IJCNLP 2008

Bengali, Hindi and Telugu to English Ad-hoc Bilingual Task IJCNLP 2008

Named Entity Recognition in Bengali: A Conditional Random Field Approach IJCNLP 2008

Bengali Named Entity Recognition Using Support Vector Machine IJCNLP 2008

A Modified Joint Source-Channel Model for Transliteration COLING 2006

A Modified Joint Source-Channel Model for Transliteration ACL 2006