PhD Defense: Analyzing communicative choices to understand their motivations, context-based variation, and social consequences
Talk, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Dissertation Defense Talk
Talks and Presentations
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Mainstream News Articles Co-Shared with Fake News Buttress Misinformation Narratives
Conference Proceedings talk, ICWSM 2023, Limassol, Cyprus
Oral presentation at ICWSM 2023. Our work won the Outstanding Study Design Award
Are Neural Topic Models Broken?
Conference Proceedings talk, Findings of EMNLP 2022, Abu Dhabi
Poster presentation for Findings of EMNLP 2022.
Analyzing communicative choices to understand their motivations, context-based variation, and social consequences
Talk, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Dissertation Proposal Talk
Why Do Misinformation Spreaders Also Share News from Reliable Sources? The Role of Narratives
Talk, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Presented ongoing work on Misinformation Narratives in Mainstream Media.
Is Automated Topic Model Evaluation Broken?: The Incoherence of Coherence
Conference Proceedings talk, NeurIPS 2021,
Oral Spotlight Presentation at NeurIPS 2021.
Improving Neural Topic Models using Knowledge Distillation
Conference Proceedings talk, EMNLP 2020,
Oral Presentation (delivered remotely) at EMNLP 2020.
How Pre-trained Word Representations Capture Commonsense Physical Comparisons
Conference proceedings talk, COIN workshop at Empirical Methods in NLP (EMNLP) 2019, Hong Kong
Oral Presentation (delivered remotely) at COIN (COmmonsense INference in Natural Language Processing), EMNLP 2019.
Overcoming Priors in Visual Question Answering
Academic Talk, University of Maryland, College Park, US
Course Presentation for the Deep Learning Course, Fall 2018.
How Emotional Are You? Neural Architectures and Transfer Learning for Emotion Intensity Prediction in Microblogs
Conference proceedings talk, COLING 2018, Santa Fe
Oral presentation for the full paper accepted at COLING 2018.
Detecting Indirectness in Conversation
Conference proceedings talk, International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS) 2018, Singapore
Oral presentation for the full paper accepted at IWSDS 2018.
Sarcasm Target Identification: Dataset and An Introductory Approach
Conference proceedings talk, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2018, Miyazaki, Japan
Poster presentation for the full paper accepted at LREC 2018. Presented by a colleague at the conference.
Applying for M.S./Ph.D.
Misc. Talk, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, Varanasi, India
An informative talk given to undergraduates across the insititue, on applying for MS/PhD as an International/Indian student to (mainly) US schools. Presentation created with CS and related fields in mind.
Transfer Learning (Seminar)
Academic Talk, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, Varanasi, India
Seminal talk on the topic Transfer Learning.
Prayas at EmoInt 2017: An Ensemble of Deep Neural Architectures for Emotion Intensity Prediction in Tweets
Conference proceedings talk, Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark
Oral presentation for the EmoInt shared task winning system description paper accepted at WASSA, EMNLP 2017. Presentation with my voice-over was played at the workshop.
A Deep Exploration of Conversational Strategy Classification
Talk, Articulab, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Final presentation describing my work during my summer research internship, working on the conversational strategy classifier for the SARA (Socially Aware Robot Assistant) project at Articulab, CMU.
Prediciting the Correct Ending of a Story
Conference Proceedings talk, European Association of Computational Linguistics (EACL) 2017, Valencia, Spain
Poster presented for the system description paper accepted in the Story Cloze shared task at LSDSem, EACL 2017.