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Recent News
Amrita Singh has been selected as a DAAD AInet Fellow. Congratulations, Amrita! ๐ | |
Five papers published at EMNLP 2026. In the main conference: a benchmark framework for specialist domains by Bao Gia Doan, DiaLLM by Jordan Painter, and From Triage to Discharge by Dipankar Srirag. In Findings: IndicKLAR by Debajyoti Mazumder and SAPS by Sharath Naganna. | |
Our workshop on Community-Based and Socially Aware Approaches to Natural Language Processing, has been accepted at COLING 2026. The co-organisers are Lia Draetta, Chiara Ferrando, Adriana S. Pagano and Viviana Patti from University of Turin (Lia, Chiara and Viviana) and Federal University of Minas Gerais (Adriana). | |
Two papers published at INLG 2026: Retell, Reward, Repeat by David Liu, on reinforcement learning for narrative theory-informed story retelling, and In Vino Veritas and Vulnerabilities by Anudeex Shetty, on LLM safety under “drunk” language. | |
Our tutorial, Emergency Department: A Real-World Edge Case for Clinical NLP, has been accepted at AJCAI 2026. It runs on 27 November 2026. | |
Our research on getting AI “drunk” to expose new security risks in chatbots was featured on ABC News, news.com.au and the UNSW Newsroom . Find out more about the paper here. | |
Co-organising the ALTA 2026 Shared Task on sentiment and sarcasm classification for Australian and British English, built on our BESSTIE dataset. | |
ResPL, on reasoning-based pseudo-labels for sarcasm detection in low-resource Arabic dialects by Ali Almutairi, accepted to ICNLSP 2026. | |
Two papers accepted at Interspeech 2026: stuttering detection in paediatric speech and TriageSim. | |
Suhan Karaca, co-supervised by Amrita Singh and Aditya Joshi, published a paper at Customizable NLP workshop @ ACL 2026 |
Selected Publications
BibTeX
@article{10.1145/3712060,
author = {Joshi, Aditya and Dabre, Raj and Kanojia, Diptesh and Li, Zhuang and Zhan, Haolan and Haffari, Gholamreza and Dippold, Doris},
title = {Natural Language Processing for Dialects of a Language: A Survey},
year = {2025},
issue_date = {June 2025},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
volume = {57},
number = {6},
issn = {0360-0300},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3712060},
doi = {10.1145/3712060},
abstract = {State-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) models are trained on massive training corpora, and report a superlative performance on evaluation datasets. This survey delves into an important attribute of these datasets: the dialect of a language. Motivated by the performance degradation of NLP models for dialectal datasets and its implications for the equity of language technologies, we survey past research in NLP for dialects in terms of datasets, and approaches. We describe a wide range of NLP tasks in terms of two categories: natural language understanding (NLU) (for tasks such as dialect classification, sentiment analysis, parsing, and NLU benchmarks) and natural language generation (NLG) (for summarisation, machine translation, and dialogue systems). The survey is also broad in its coverage of languages which include English, Arabic, German, among others. We observe that past work in NLP concerning dialects goes deeper than mere dialect classification, and extends to several NLU and NLG tasks. For these tasks, we describe classical machine learning using statistical models, along with the recent deep learning-based approaches based on pre-trained language models. We expect that this survey will be useful to NLP researchers interested in building equitable language technologies by rethinking LLM benchmarks and model architectures.},
journal = {ACM Comput. Surv.},
month = feb,
articleno = {149},
numpages = {37},
keywords = {NLP, dialects, natural language processing, linguistic diversity, large language models, inclusion}
}
Copied!BibTeX
@inproceedings{srirag-etal-2026-triage,
title = "From Triage to Discharge: A Survey of {NLP} Tasks, Methods, and Open Challenges in the Emergency Department",
author = "Srirag, Dipankar and
Joshi, Aditya and
Kanhere, Salil S. and
Narasimhan, Padmanesan",
editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and
Dev, Sunipa and
Li, Jessy and
Elliott, Desmond",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = oct,
year = "2026",
address = "Budapest, Hungary",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.908/",
pages = "20918--20942",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}
Copied!BibTeX
@inproceedings{doan-etal-2026-benchmark,
title = "A Benchmark Construction and Evaluation Framework for Specialist Domains: Case Study on Defense-Related Documents",
author = "Doan, Bao Gia and
Joshi, Aditya and
Elinas, Pantelis and
Bodhankar, Aarya and
Leslie, Oscar and
Marchant, Tom and
Salim, Flora D.",
editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and
Dev, Sunipa and
Li, Jessy and
Elliott, Desmond",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = oct,
year = "2026",
address = "Budapest, Hungary",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.944/",
pages = "21747--21775",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}
Copied!BibTeX
@inproceedings{liyanarachchi26_interspeech,
title = {{Paediatric-HGNN: A Hybrid Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Detecting Disfluency in Children's Speech via Multiscale Acoustic Fusion}},
author = {Rashini Liyanarachchi and Rachael Mackay and Alison Short and Aditya Joshi and Erik Meijering},
year = {2026},
booktitle = {{Interspeech 2026}},
pages = {5600--5604},
doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2026-1131},
issn = {2958-1796},
}
Copied!BibTeX
@misc{shetty2026vinoveritasvulnerabilitiesexamining,
title={In Vino Veritas and Vulnerabilities: Examining LLM Safety via Drunk Language Inducement},
author={Anudeex Shetty and Aditya Joshi and Salil S. Kanhere},
year={2026},
eprint={2601.22169},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22169},
}
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- ABC News Getting AI 'drunk' makes it more likely to break rules and share secrets, research finds
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- ABC Radio National Yeah-Nah: Can AI understand Aussie sarcasm?
- The Conversation 'Are you joking, mate?' AI doesn't get sarcasm in non-American varieties of English
- UNSW Newsroom 'Are you joking, mate?' AI doesn't get sarcasm in non-American varieties of English
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