Papers by Somnath Saha
InfFeed: Influence Functions as a Feedback to Improve the Performance of Subjective Tasks (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | InfFeed uses influence functions to compute the influential instances for a target instance. |
| Approach: | They propose an apparatus that uses influence functions to compute the influential instances for a target instance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art baselines by 4% for hate speech classification, 3.5% for stance classification, and 3% for irony and 2% for sarcasm detection. |
Characterization of Stigmatizing Language in Medical Records (2023.acl-short)
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Keith Harrigian, Ayah Zirikly, Brant Chee, Alya Ahmad, Anne Links, Somnath Saha, Mary Catherine Beach, Mark Dredze
| Challenge: | Widespread disparities in healthcare outcomes exist between demographic groups in the United States. |
| Approach: | They characterize disparities in medical documentation using domain-informed NLP techniques and highlight important differences between them. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods highlight important differences between the task and bias-related tasks studied within the NLP community. |
Hate Speech and Offensive Language Detection in Bengali (2022.aacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing research on hate speech detection in English does not cover low-resource languages like Bengali. |
| Approach: | They develop an annotated dataset of 10K Bengali posts consisting of 5K actual and 5K Romanized Bengali tweets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms other models on training actual and romanized datasets by interpreting the semantic expressions better. |