Aishik Mandal — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

CaMMT: Benchmarking Culturally Aware Multimodal Machine Translation

Emilio Villa-Cueva, Sholpan Bolatzhanova, Diana Turmakhan, Kareem Elzeky, Henok Biadglign Ademtew, Alham Fikri Aji +29

EMNLP 2025

Translating cultural content poses challenges for machine translation systems due to the differences in conceptualizations between cultures, where language alone may fail to convey sufficient context to capture region-specific meanings. In this work, we investigate whether images can act as cultural

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2024

CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark

David Orlando Romero Mogrovejo, Chenyang Lyu, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Santiago Góngora, Aishik Mandal, Sukannya Purkayastha +70

NeurIPS 2024oral

Visual Question Answering~(VQA) is an important task in multimodal AI, which requires models to understand and reason on knowledge present in visual and textual data. However, most of the current VQA datasets and models are primarily focused on English and a few major world languages, with images th…

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2022

Representation Learning for Conversational Data using Discourse Mutual Information Maximization

Bishal Santra, Sumegh Roychowdhury, Aishik Mandal, Vasu Gurram, Atharva Naik, Manish Gupta +1

NAACL 2022long

Although many pretrained models exist for text or images, there have been relatively fewer attempts to train representations specifically for dialog understanding. Prior works usually relied on finetuned representations based on generic text representation models like BERT or GPT-2. But such languag…

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