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Mr Dipankar Srirag

Mr Dipankar Srirag

Casual Academic
  • 2024: Master of Information Technology, UNSW Sydney.
  • 2022: Bachelor of Information Technology with Minors in Data Analytics, Manipal Institute of Technology India.

 

 

 

Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the UNSW-NLP group at University of New South Wales. I am advised by Dr. Aditya Joshi, Dr. Padmanesan Narasimhan and Dr. Salil Kanhere. My research interests broadly lie in socio-culturally inclusive language technologies, and my projects involve developing multicultural and multilingual dialogue agents for emergency triage. My Ph.D. project is funded by the NHMRC Ideas grant awarded to Dr. Narasimhan.

I graduated with a Master of Information Technology with Excellence from UNSW Sydney. My masters thesis, supervised by Dr. Joshi, involved evaluating and improving dialect robustness for decoder models using adapter-based methods.

I have worked as a Research Assistant on a project funded by the Google Research Scholar grant, to build a benchmark for sentiment and sarcasm classification for varieties of English.

I also have experience in mentoring undergrad students in their NLP projects (from ideation to publication). Please reach out if you're interested in connecting, collaborating or discussing research... and beyond! I am easier to find on Twitter/X.
E-mail
d.srirag@unsw.edu.au
  • Book Chapters | 2026
    Srirag D; Cen X; Masood R; Joshi A, 2026, 'A Taxonomy-Driven Case Study of Australian Web Resources Against Technology-Facilitated Abuse', in , pp. 474 - 493, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-92-3015-0_22
  • Journal articles | 2021
    Bhagavathula AS; Raghavan VR; Ahmadi A; Srirag D; Chattu VK, 2021, 'Frontline Healthcare Workers’ Knowledge, Perception and Risk Prevention Practices Regarding COVID-19 in Afghanistan: A Cross-Sectional Study', Medical Sciences, 9, pp. 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medsci9010002
  • Conference Papers | 2026
    Dilsiz DK; Srirag D; Joshi A, 2026, 'Far Out: Evaluating Language Models on Slang in Australian and Indian English', in Vardial 2026 13th Workshop on Nlp for Similar Languages Varieties and Dialects Proceedings of the Workshop, pp. 18 - 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.vardial-1.2
    Preprints | 2026
    Dilsiz DK; Srirag D; Joshi A, 2026, Far Out: Evaluating Language Models on Slang in Australian and Indian English, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2602.15373
    Conference Papers | 2026
    Jin S; Srirag D; Joshi A, 2026, 'PAREDA: A Multi-Accent Speech Dataset of Natural Language Processing Research Discussions', ELDA (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency), pp. 8 - 15, presented at Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026, http://dx.doi.org/10.63317/5iy7wxvt4y5s
    Preprints | 2026
    Jin S; Srirag D; Joshi A, 2026, PAREDA: A Multi-Accent Speech Dataset of Natural Language Processing Research Discussions, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2605.17860
    Preprints | 2026
    Liu DY; Muston X; Srirag D; Joshi A; Sequoiah-Grayson S, 2026, Retell, Reward, Repeat: Reinforcement Learning for Narrative Theory-Informed Story Retelling, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2601.17226
    Preprints | 2026
    Painter J; Srirag D; Kappiyath A; Kanojia D; Joshi A; Yin L, 2026, DiaLLM: An Investigation into the Robustness-Generation Gap in English Dialect Adaptation, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2607.07669
    Preprints | 2026
    Srirag D; Nguyen QD; Joshi A; Narasimhan P; Kanhere S, 2026, TriageSim: A Conversational Emergency Triage Simulation Framework from Structured Electronic Health Records, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2603.10035
    Preprints | 2025
    Singh I; Srirag D; Joshi A, 2025, Nek Minit: Harnessing Pragmatic Metacognitive Prompting for Explainable Sarcasm Detection of Australian and Indian English, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2505.15095
    Preprints | 2025
    Srirag D; Cen X; Masood R; Joshi A, 2025, A Taxonomy-Driven Case Study of Australian Web Resources Against Technology-Facilitated Abuse, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2512.04104
    Conference Papers | 2025
    Srirag D; Joshi A; Eisenstein J, 2025, 'Predicting the Target Word of Game-playing Conversations using a Low-Rank Dialect Adapter for Decoder Models', in Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Long Papers Naacl Hlt 2025, pp. 8 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-short.2
    Preprints | 2025
    Srirag D; Joshi A; Eisenstein J, 2025, Predicting the Target Word of Game-playing Conversations using a Low-Rank Dialect Adapter for Decoder Models, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2409.00358
    Conference Papers | 2025
    Srirag D; Joshi A; Painter J; Kanojia D, 2025, 'BESSTIE: A Benchmark for Sentiment and Sarcasm Classification for Varieties of English', in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 8413 - 8429, http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.441
    Preprints | 2025
    Srirag D; Joshi A; Painter J; Kanojia D, 2025, BESSTIE: A Benchmark for Sentiment and Sarcasm Classification for Varieties of English, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2412.04726
    Conference Papers | 2025
    Srirag D; Sahoo N; Joshi A, 2025, 'Evaluating Dialect Robustness of Language Models via Conversation Understanding', in Coling 2025 Sumeval 2025 2nd Workshop on Scaling Up Multilingual and Multi Cultural Evaluation Proceedings of the Workshop, pp. 24 - 38
    Preprints | 2024
    Srirag D; Painter J; Joshi A; Kanojia D, 2024, Experiences from Creating a Benchmark for Sentiment Classification for Varieties of English, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2410.11216
    Preprints | 2024
    Srirag D; Sahoo NR; Joshi A, 2024, Evaluating Dialect Robustness of Language Models via Conversation Understanding, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2405.05688

  • 2025: Google Travel Award worth 2500 AUD.

 

  • 2025: recipient of the UNSW Tuition Fee Scholarship (TFS) plus a research stipend for PhD programme in Australia.
  • 2024: recipient of Award of Excellence.

 

My Teaching

Guest Lecture

  • PHCM9790: Digital Health
    • 25T3.

 

Casual Academic/Tutor

  • COMP9024: Data Structures and Algorithms
    • 25T3.
  • COMP9444: Neural Networks and Deep Learning
    • 24T2, 24T3, 25T2.