Papers by Sourabrata Mukherjee
Women, Infamous, and Exotic Beings: A Comparative Study of Honorific Usages in Wikipedia and LLMs for Bengali and Hindi (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Honorifics encode nuanced socio-pragmatic cues such as power, age, gender, fame, and cultural distance. |
| Approach: | They propose to study third-person honorific usage across 10,000 Hindi and Bengali Wikipedia articles . honorifics are more prevalent in Bengali than in Hindi, while non-honorifics dominate . |
| Outcome: | The authors show that large language models internalize similar socio-pragmatic norms . their analysis shows that honorifics are more prevalent in Bengali than in Hindi . |
Polite Chatbot: A Text Style Transfer Application (2023.eacl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Creating polite chatbots requires complex setups that require reinforcement learning to produce coherent responses. |
| Approach: | They propose a polite chatbot that can generate coherent responses to given contexts by using a model that transfers neutral sentences into polite ones and trains a dialogue model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baselines in producing polite dialogue responses while staying competitive in terms of coherent to the given context. |
Evaluating Text Style Transfer Evaluation: Are There Any Reliable Metrics? (2025.naacl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Text style transfer (TST) is a multidimensional task requiring the assessment of style transfer accuracy, content preservation, and naturalness. |
| Approach: | They propose to use text style transfer metrics to evaluate outputs of text editors . they also investigate the potential of large language models as tools for TST evaluation . |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods provide better insights than existing metrics, the authors show . their meta-evaluation through correlation with hu-man judgments shows they are effective . |