- Gitanjali Kumari, Pranali Shindey, Asif Ekbal. The Persuasive Memescape: Understanding Effectiveness and Societal Implications of Internet Memes. In the main conference AACL-IJCNLP 2023.
- Mauajama Firdaus, Priyanshu Priya, Asif EKbal. Mixing It Up: Inducing Empathy and Politeness using Multiple Behaviour-aware Generators for Conversational Systems. In Findings AACL-IJCNLP 2023.
- Kshitij. Mishra, Priyanshu Priya and Asif Ekbal (2023). PAL to Lend a Helping Hand: Towards Building an Emotion Adaptive Polite and Empathetic Counseling Conversational Agent. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Canada Toronto.
- Priyanshu Priya, Kshitij Mishra, Asif Ekbal (2023). PARTNER: A Persuasive Mental Health and Legal Counselling Dialogue System for Women and Children Crime Victims. In the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI for Social Good Track), Macao, S.A.R.
- Kshitij Mishra, Priyanshu Priya, and Asif Ekbal (2023). \textit{Help Me Heal}: A Reinforced Polite and Empathetic Mental Health and Legal Counseling Dialogue System for Crime Victims. In 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February 7-14, USA.
- Z. Ahmad, K. Mishra, and A. Ekbal (2023). RPTCS: A Reinforced Persona-aware Topic-guiding Conversational System. In 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), May 2-4, Croatia.
- Soumitra Ghosh, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2023). VAD-assisted multitask transformer framework for emotion recognition and intensity prediction on suicide notes. In Information Processing & Management.
- K. Mishra, M Firdaus, and A. Ekbal (2023). GenPADS: Reinforcing politeness in an end-to-end dialogue system PLosOne, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278323
- M. Firdaus, A. Ekbal and P. Bhattacharyya (2022). PoliSe: Reinforcing Politeness using User Sentiment for Customer Care Response Generation. In 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), October 12-17, Korea.
- K. Mishra, A. Samad, P. Totala and A. Ekbal (2022). PEPDS: A Polite and Empathetic Persuasive Dialogue System for Charity Donation. In 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), October 12-17, Korea.
- D. Varshney, A. Prabhakar and A. Ekbal (2022). Commonsense and Named Entity Aware Knowledge Grounded Dialogue Generation. In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2022, 1322-1335, July 10-15, USA.
- A. Samad, K. Mishra, M. Firdaus and A. Ekbal (2022). Empathetic Persuasion: Reinforcing Empathy and Persuasiveness in Dialogue Systems. In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2022 (Findings), 844-856, July 10-15, USA.
- Zishan Ahmad, Asif Ekbal, Subhashish Sengupta , Pushpak Bhattachharyya (2022). Neural Response Generation for Task Completion using Conversational Knowledge Graph, PLosOne, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259238.
- M. Firdaus, N. Thangavelu, A. Ekbal and P. Bhattacharyya (2022). I enjoy writing and playing, do you?: A Personalized and Emotion Grounded Dialogue Agent using Generative Adversarial Network. In IEEE Transaction on Affective Computing, doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3155105.
- Kshitij Mishra, Mauajama Firdaus and Asif Ekbal (2022). Please be Polite: Towards building a Politeness Adaptive Dialogue System for Goal-oriented Conversations, Neurocomputing, 94, 242-254, Elsevier.
- K. Misra, M. Firdaus, A. Ekbal (2022). Predicting politeness variations in Goal-oriented Conversations. IEEE Transaction on Computational Social System, IEEE, doi: 10.1109/TCSS.2022.3156580.
- Gopendra Vikram Singh, Mauajama Firdaus, Shambhavi, Shruti Mishra, Asif Ekbal (2022). Knowing What to Say: Towards knowledge grounded code-mixed response generation for open-domain conversations. Knowledge Based System, Elsevier, 249: 108900 (2022).
- Mauajama Firdaus, Nidhi Thakur, Asif Ekbal (2022). Sentiment Guided Aspect Conditioned Dialogue Generation in a Multimodal System. In Proc. of ECIR (1) 2022: 199-214.
- S. Ghosh, A. Ekbal, P. Bhattacharya (2022). Am I No Good? Towards Detecting Perceived Burdensomeness and Thwarted Belongingness from Suicide Notes. In IJCAI 2022.
- Soumitra Ghosh, Swarup Roy, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2022). CARES: CAuse Recognition for Emotion in Suicide Notes. In European Conference on Information Retrieval 2022.
- Soumitra Ghosh, Dhirendra Kumar Maurya, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2022). EM-PERSONA: Emotion-Assisted Deep Neural Framework for Personality Subtyping from Suicide Notes. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics.
- Firdaus, H. Chauhan, A. Ekbal and P. Bhattacharyya (2021). More the Merrier: Towards Multi-Emotion and Intensity Controllable Response Generation. In Proceedings of AAAI 2021, PP. 12821-12829.
- D. Varshney, A. Ekbal and P. Bhattacharyya (2021). Modeling Context Emotions using Multi-task Learning for Emotion-Controlled Dialogue Generation. In Proceedings of EACL 2021, PP. 2919-2931.
- M. Firdaus, U. Jain, A. Ekbal and P. Bhattacharyya (2021). SEPRG: Sentiment Aware Emotion Controlled Personalized Response Generation. In Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG), 353-363.
- Mauajama Firdaus, Hitesh Golchha, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2021). A Deep Multi-task Model for Dialogue Act Classification, Intent Detection and Slot Filling. Cognitive Computation 13(3): 626-645 (2021).
- Mauajama Firdaus, Nidhi Thakur and Asif Ekbal (2021). Multi-Aspect Controlled Response Generation in a Multimodal Dialogue System using Hierarchical Transformer Network. In Proc of 2021 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).
- Mauajama Firdaus, Arunav Pratap Shandilya, Sthita Pragyan Pujari and Asif Ekbal (2021). Attribute Centered Multimodal Response Generation in a Dialogue System. In Proc of 2021 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).
- M Firdaus, N Thakur, A Ekbal (2021). Aspect-Aware Response Generation for Multimodal Dialogue System. In ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) 12 (2), 1-33. 1.
- M. Firdaus, H. Chauhan, A. Ekbal and P. Bhattacharyya (2020). EmoSen: Generating Sentiment and Emotion Controlled Responses in a Multimodal Dialogue System (2020). IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 10.1109/TAFFC.2020.3015491.
- Mauajama Firdaus, Nidhi Thakur, Asif Ekbal (2020). MultiDM-GCN: Aspect-Guided Response Generation in Multi-Domain Multi-Modal Dialogue System using Graph Convolution Network. In Proc. of EMNLP (Findings) 2020: 2318-2328.
- M. Firdaus, A.P Shandilya and A. Ekbal (2020). More to Diverse: Generating Diversified Responses in a Task Oriented Multimodal Dialog System. PLosONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241271.
- Mauajama Firdaus, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2020). Incorporating Politeness across Languages in Customer Care Responses: Towards Building a Multilingual Empathetic Dialogue Agent. In Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), pp. 4171-4182. (h5 index: 49)
- Hardik Chauhan, Mauzama Firdaus, Asif Ekbal and Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2019). Ordinal and Attribute Aware Response Generation in a Multimodal Dialogue System. In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 5437-5447.
- M. Firdaus, H. Chauhan, A. Ekbal and P. Bhattacharyya (2020). MEISD: A Multimodal Multi-Label Emotion, Intensity and Sentiment Dialogue Dataset for Emotion Recognition and Sentiment Analysis in Conversations. Proceedings of COLING 2020, pp. 4441-4453.
- Zishan Ahmad, Asif Ekbal, Shubhashis Sengupta, Anutosh Mitra, Roshni R. Rammani, Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2020). Active Learning Based Relation Classification for Knowledge Graph Construction from Conversation Data. In Proceedings of ICONIP (4) 2020: 617-625.
- M. Firdaus, N. Thangavelu, A. Ekbal and P. Bhattacharyya (2020). Persona aware Response Generation with Emotions. In the 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Glasgow, UK, July 2020.
- M. Firdaus, A. Kumar, A. Ekbal and P. Bhattacharyya (2019). A Multi-task Hierarchical Approach for Intent Detection and Slot Filling. Knowledge based Systems, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2019.07.017.
- Hitesh Golchha, Mauajama Firdaus, Asif Ekbal, and Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2019). Courteously Yours: Inducing courteous behavior in Customer Care responses using Reinforced Pointer Generator Network. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pp. 851-860. 2019.
