Research outputs
2026
Exploring Cultural Heritage with AR: The TAM Case Study of Nvshu
Xie, Y., Wu, X., Zhang, Y., Chen, R., Saha, T., Dou, Y., & Ji, C. (2026). Exploring Cultural Heritage with AR: The TAM Case Study of Nvshu. In Unknown Book (Vol. 15915 LNCS, pp. 39-54). doi:10.1007/978-981-95-0100-7_3
2025
Does Sentiment and Emotion Affect Mental Health? A Multi-task Classification Framework for Comprehensive Understanding of Mental Health, Emotion, and Sentiment from Motivational Conversations
Pathak, A., Bhattacharjee, S., Saha, T., & Saha, S. (2025). Does Sentiment and Emotion Affect Mental Health? A Multi-task Classification Framework for Comprehensive Understanding of Mental Health, Emotion, and Sentiment from Motivational Conversations. ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, 6(2). doi:10.1145/3704740
2024
"Reasoning before Responding": Towards Legal Long-form Question Answering with Interpretability
Ujwal, U., Surampudi, S. S. H., Mitra, S., & Saha, T. (2024). "Reasoning before Responding": Towards Legal Long-form Question Answering with Interpretability. In International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Proceedings (pp. 4922-4930). doi:10.1145/3627673.3680082
Report on the 2nd Symposium on NLP for Social Good (NSG 2024)
Sen, P., Saha, T., & Bollegala, D. (2024). Report on the 2nd Symposium on NLP for Social Good (NSG 2024). Ceur Workshop Proceedings, 3764.
2023
<i>Your tone speaks louder than your face!</i> Modality Order Infused Multi-modal Sarcasm Detection
Tomar, M., Tiwari, A., Saha, T., & Saha, S. (2023). <i>Your tone speaks louder than your face!</i> Modality Order Infused Multi-modal Sarcasm Detection. In PROCEEDINGS OF THE 31ST ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA, MM 2023 (pp. 3926-3933). doi:10.1145/3581783.3612528
'Choose your Data Wisely': Active Learning based Selection with Multi-Objective Optimisation for Mitigating Stereotypes
Chandra, M., Ganguly, D., Saha, T., & Ounis, I. (2023). 'Choose your Data Wisely': Active Learning based Selection with Multi-Objective Optimisation for Mitigating Stereotypes. In PROCEEDINGS OF THE 32ND ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, CIKM 2023 (pp. 3768-3772). doi:10.1145/3583780.3615261
Workshop on Large Language Models' Interpretability and Trustworthiness (LLMIT)
Saha, T., Ganguly, D., Saha, S., & Mitra, P. (2023). Workshop on Large Language Models' Interpretability and Trustworthiness (LLMIT). In PROCEEDINGS OF THE 32ND ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, CIKM 2023 (pp. 5290-5293). doi:10.1145/3583780.3615311
Mental Health Disorder Identification From Motivational Conversations
Saha, T., Reddy, S. M., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2023). Mental Health Disorder Identification From Motivational Conversations. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS, 10(3), 1130-1139. doi:10.1109/TCSS.2022.3143763
T-VAKS: A Tutoring-based Multimodal Dialog System via Knowledge Selection
Jain, R., Saha, T., & Saha, S. (2023). T-VAKS: A Tutoring-based Multimodal Dialog Systemvia Knowledge Selection.
Can you Summarize my learnings? Towards Multi-modal Perspective-based Educational Dialogue Summarization
Jain, R., Saha, T., Lalwani, J., & Saha, S. (2023). Can you Summarize my learnings? Towards Multi-modal Perspective-based Educational Dialogue Summarization. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics Emnlp 2023 (pp. 3158-3173). doi:10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.208
Trends and Overview: The Potential of Conversational Agents in Digital Health
Saha, T., Tiwari, A., & Saha, S. (2023). Trends and Overview: The Potential of Conversational Agents in Digital Health. In ADVANCES IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, ECIR 2023, PT III Vol. 13982 (pp. 349-356). doi:10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_36
2022
Symptoms are known by their companies: towards association guided disease diagnosis assistant
Tiwari, A., Saha, T., Saha, S., Bhattacharyya, P., Begum, S., Dhar, M., & Tiwari, S. (2022). Symptoms are known by their companies: towards association guided disease diagnosis assistant. BMC BIOINFORMATICS, 23(1). doi:10.1186/s12859-022-05032-y
Towards Motivational and Empathetic Response Generation in Online Mental Health Support
Saha, T., Gakhreja, V., Das, A. S., Chakraborty, S., & Saha, S. (2022). Towards Motivational and Empathetic Response Generation in Online Mental Health Support. In SIGIR 2022 Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (pp. 2650-2656). doi:10.1145/3477495.3531912
A persona aware persuasive dialogue policy for dynamic and co-operative goal setting
Tiwari, A., Saha, T., Saha, S., Sengupta, S., Maitra, A., Ramnani, R., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2022). A persona aware persuasive dialogue policy for dynamic and co-operative goal setting. EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, 195. doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2021.116303
A Multitask Multimodal Ensemble Model for Sentiment- and Emotion-Aided Tweet Act Classification
Saha, T., Upadhyaya, A., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2022). A Multitask Multimodal Ensemble Model for Sentiment- and Emotion-Aided Tweet Act Classification. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS, 9(2), 508-517. doi:10.1109/TCSS.2021.3088714
A Shoulder to Cry on: Towards A Motivational Virtual Assistant for Assuaging Mental Agony
Saha, T., Reddy, S., Das, A., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2022). A Shoulder to Cry on: Towards A Motivational Virtual Assistant for Assuaging Mental Agony. In Naacl 2022 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Proceedings of the Conference (pp. 2436-2449). doi:10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.174
Domain Infused Conversational Response Generation for Tutoring based Virtual Agent
Jain, R., Saha, T., Chakraborty, S., & Saha, S. (2022). Domain Infused Conversational Response Generation for Tutoring based Virtual Agent. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. doi:10.1109/IJCNN55064.2022.9892890
Emotion-aware and Intent-controlled Empathetic Response Generation using Hierarchical Transformer Network
Saha, T., & Ananiadou, S. (2022). Emotion-aware and Intent-controlled Empathetic Response Generation using Hierarchical Transformer Network. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. doi:10.1109/IJCNN55064.2022.9892592
GRETEL: Graph Contrastive Topic Enhanced Language Model for Long Document Extractive Summarization
Xie, Q., Huang, J., Saha, T., & Ananiadou, S. (2022). GRETEL: Graph Contrastive Topic Enhanced Language Model for Long Document Extractive Summarization. In Proceedings International Conference on Computational Linguistics Coling Vol. 29 (pp. 6259-6269).
Meta-Learning based Deferred Optimisation for Sentiment and Emotion aware Multi-modal Dialogue Act Classification
Saha, T., Patra, A. P., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2022). Meta-Learning based Deferred Optimisation for Sentiment and Emotion aware Multi-modal Dialogue Act Classification. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing Long Paper Aacl Ijcnlp 2022 Vol. 1 (pp. 978-990). doi:10.18653/v1/2022.aacl-main.71
Towards Sentiment-Aware Multi-Modal Dialogue Policy Learning
Saha, T., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2022). Towards Sentiment-Aware Multi-Modal Dialogue Policy Learning. COGNITIVE COMPUTATION, 14(1), 246-260. doi:10.1007/s12559-020-09769-7
2021
A Unified Dialogue Management Strategy for Multi-intent Dialogue Conversations in Multiple Languages
Saha, T., Gupta, D., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2021). A Unified Dialogue Management Strategy for Multi-intent Dialogue Conversations in Multiple Languages. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ASIAN AND LOW-RESOURCE LANGUAGE INFORMATION PROCESSING, 20(6). doi:10.1145/3461763
A hierarchical approach for efficient multi-intent dialogue policy learning
Saha, T., Gupta, D., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2021). A hierarchical approach for efficient multi-intent dialogue policy learning. MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS, 80(28-29), 35025-35050. doi:10.1007/s11042-020-09070-7
A Large-Scale Dataset for Motivational Dialogue System : An Application of Natural Language Generation to Mental Health
Saha, T., Chopra, S., Saha, S., Bhattacharyya, P., & Kumar, P. (2021). A Large-Scale Dataset for Motivational Dialogue System : An Application of Natural Language Generation to Mental Health. In 2021 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS (IJCNN). doi:10.1109/IJCNN52387.2021.9533924
A Transformer based Multi-task Model for Domain Classification, Intent Detection and Slot-Filling
Saha, T., Priya, N., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2021). A Transformer based Multi-task Model for Domain Classification, Intent Detection and Slot-Filling. In 2021 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS (IJCNN). doi:10.1109/IJCNN52387.2021.9533525
Multi-Modal Dialogue Policy Learning for Dynamic and Co-operative Goal Setting
Tiwari, A., Saha, T., Saha, S., Sengupta, S., Maitra, A., Ramnani, R., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2021). Multi-Modal Dialogue Policy Learning for Dynamic and Co-operative Goal Setting. In 2021 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS (IJCNN). doi:10.1109/IJCNN52387.2021.9533878
A dynamic goal adapted task oriented dialogue agent
Tiwari, A., Saha, T., Saha, S., Sengupta, S., Maitra, A., Ramnani, R., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2021). A dynamic goal adapted task oriented dialogue agent. PLOS ONE, 16(4). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0249030
Emotion Aided Dialogue Act Classification for Task-Independent Conversations in a Multi-modal Framework
Saha, T., Gupta, D., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2021). Emotion Aided Dialogue Act Classification for Task-Independent Conversations in a Multi-modal Framework. COGNITIVE COMPUTATION, 13(2), 277-289. doi:10.1007/s12559-019-09704-5
Towards Sentiment and Emotion aided Multi-modal Speech Act Classification in Twitter
Saha, T., Upadhyaya, A., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2021). Towards Sentiment and Emotion aided Multi-modal Speech Act Classification in Twitter. In Naacl Hlt 2021 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Proceedings of the Conference (pp. 5727-5737). doi:10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.456
2020
Towards integrated dialogue policy learning for multiple domains and intents using Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning
Saha, T., Gupta, D., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2020). Towards integrated dialogue policy learning for multiple domains and intents using Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning. EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, 162. doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113650
BERT-Caps: A Transformer-Based Capsule Network for Tweet Act Classification
Saha, T., Ramesh Jayashree, S., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2020). BERT-Caps: A Transformer-Based Capsule Network for Tweet Act Classification. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS, 7(5), 1168-1179. doi:10.1109/TCSS.2020.3014128
A Transformer based Approach for Identification of Tweet Acts
Saha, T., Patra, A. P., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2020). A Transformer based Approach for Identification of Tweet Acts. In 2020 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS (IJCNN). doi:10.1109/ijcnn48605.2020.9207484
Towards sentiment aided dialogue policy learning for multi-intent conversations using hierarchical reinforcement learning
Saha, T., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2020). Towards sentiment aided dialogue policy learning for multi-intent conversations using hierarchical reinforcement learning. Plos One, 15(7). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0235367
Transfer Learning based Task-oriented Dialogue Policy for Multiple Domains using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Saha, T., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2020). Transfer Learning based Task-oriented Dialogue Policy for Multiple Domains using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning. In 2020 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS (IJCNN). doi:10.1109/ijcnn48605.2020.9206954
Reinforcement Learning Based Personalized Neural Dialogue Generation
Saha, T., Chopra, S., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2020). Reinforcement Learning Based Personalized Neural Dialogue Generation. In NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING, ICONIP 2020, PT IV Vol. 1332 (pp. 709-716). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-63820-7_81
Towards Emotion-aided Multi-modal Dialogue Act Classification
Saha, T., Patra, A. P., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2020). Towards Emotion-aided Multi-modal Dialogue Act Classification. In 58TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ACL 2020) (pp. 4361-4372). Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
Towards sentiment aided dialogue policy learning for multi-intent conversations using hierarchical reinforcement learning
Saha, T., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2020). Towards sentiment aided dialogue policy learning for multi-intent conversations using hierarchical reinforcement learning. PLOS ONE, 15(7). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0235367
2019
Exploring Machine Learning and Deep Learning Frameworks for Task-Oriented Dialogue Act Classification
Saha, T., Srivastava, S., Firdaus, M., Saha, S., Ekbal, A., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2019). Exploring Machine Learning and Deep Learning Frameworks for Task-Oriented Dialogue Act Classification. In 2019 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS (IJCNN). Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
Tweet Act Classification : A Deep Learning based Classifier for Recognizing Speech Acts in Twitter
Saha, T., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2019). Tweet Act Classification : A Deep Learning based Classifier for Recognizing Speech Acts in Twitter. In 2019 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS (IJCNN). doi:10.1109/ijcnn.2019.8851805
2018
Exploring Deep Learning Architectures Coupled with CRF Based Prediction for Slot-Filling
Saha, T., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2018). Exploring Deep Learning Architectures Coupled with CRF Based Prediction for Slot-Filling. In NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING (ICONIP 2018), PT I Vol. 11301 (pp. 214-225). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04167-0_20
Reinforcement learning based dialogue management strategy
Saha, T., Gupta, D., Saha, S., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2018). Reinforcement learning based dialogue management strategy. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics Vol. 11303 LNCS (pp. 359-372). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04182-3_32