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Maunendra Sankar Desarkar

4 accepted papers

2025

DIWALI - Diversity and Inclusivity aWare cuLture specific Items for India: Dataset and Assessment of LLMs for Cultural Text Adaptation in Indian Context

EMNLP 2025

Large language models (LLMs) are widely used in various tasks and applications. However, despite their wide capabilities, they are shown to lack cultural alignment (Ryan et al., 2024; AlKhamissi et al., 2024) and produce biased generations (Naous et al., 2024) due to a lack of cultural knowledge and

2025

Semantics-aware prompting for translating NOtices To AirMen

ACL 2025finding

A NOTAM or NOtice To AirMen is a crucial notice for different aviation stakeholders, particularly flight crews. It delivers essential notifications about abnormal conditions of Aviation System components such as changes to facilities, hazards, service, procedure that are not known far enough in adva…

2023

$\textit{SelectNoise:}$ Unsupervised Noise Injection to Enable Zero-Shot Machine Translation for Extremely Low-resource Languages

EMNLP 2023long findings

In this work, we focus on the task of machine translation (MT) from extremely low-resource language (ELRLs) to English. The unavailability of parallel data, lack of representation from large multilingual pre-trained models, and limited monolingual data hinder the development of MT systems for ELRLs.…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

DivHSK: Diverse Headline Generation using Self-Attention based Keyword Selection

ACL 2023findings

Diverse headline generation is an NLP task where given a news article, the goal is to generate multiple headlines that are true to the content of the article but are different among themselves. This task aims to exhibit and exploit semantically similar one-to-many relationships between a source news…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar