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Ritwik Banerjee

3 accepted papers

2025

Class Distillation with Mahalanobis Contrast: An Efficient Training Paradigm for Pragmatic Language Understanding Tasks

ACL 2025long

Detecting deviant language such as sexism, or nuanced language such as metaphors or sarcasm, is crucial for enhancing the safety, clarity, and interpretation of social interactions. While existing classifiers deliver strong results on these tasks, they often come with significant computational cost…

2025

Idiosyncratic Versus Normative Modeling of Atypical Speech Recognition: Dysarthric Case Studies

EMNLP 2025

State-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) models like Whisper perform poorly on atypical speech, such as that produced by individuals with dysarthria. Past works for atypical speech have mostly investigated fully personalized (or idiosyncratic) models, but modeling strategies that can both

2024

Paying Attention to Deflections: Mining Pragmatic Nuances for Whataboutism Detection in Online Discourse

ACL 2024findings

Whataboutism, a potent tool for disrupting narratives and sowing distrust, remains under-explored in quantitative NLP research. Moreover, past work has not distinguished its use as a strategy for misinformation and propaganda from its use as a tool for pragmatic and semantic framing. We introduce ne…