papers

publications by color coded venue/type category in chronological order.

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2026

  1. Conference
    What and Whose Knowledge? Measuring Epistemic Diversity in Large Language Models
    Dustin Wright, Sarah Masud, Jared Moore, Srishti Yadav, Maria Antoniak, Peter Ebert Christensen, Chan Young Park, and Isabelle Augenstein
    In Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’26), 2026
    arXiv
  2. Conference
    Camellia: Benchmarking Cultural Biases in LLMs for Asian Languages
    Tarek Naous, Anagha Savit, Carlos Rafael Catalan, Geyang Guo, Jaehyeok Lee, Kyungdon Lee, Lheane Marie Dizon, Mengyu Ye, Neel Kothari, Sahajpreet Singh, Sarah Masud, Tanish Patwa, Trung Thanh Tran, Zohaib Khan, Alan Ritter, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Yuki Arase, Keisuke Sakaguchi, JinYeong Bak, and Wei Xu
    In Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’26), 2026
    arXiv
  3. Conference
    Scenario-based Probing and Steering Cultural Values in Large Language Models – Extended Version
    Trung Duc Anh Dang, Tung Kieu, and Sarah Masud
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026, 2026
    arXiv
  4. Conference
    Not What, But How: A Framework for Auditing LLM Responses across Positioning, Generalization, Anthropomorphism, and Maxims
    Siddhesh Milind Pawar, Sarah Masud, Haneul Yoo, Alice Oh, and Isabelle Augenstein
    In Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’26), 2026
    arXiv

2025

  1. Essay
    The promise of generative AI for suicide prevention in India
    Tanmoy Chakraborty, Koushik Sinha Deb, Himanshu Kulkarni, Sarah Masud, Suresh Bada Math, Gayatri Oke, Rajesh Sagar, and Mona Sharma
    Feb 2025
    DOI
  2. Conference
    QUENCH: Measuring the gap between Indic and Non-Indic Contextual General Reasoning in LLMs
    Mohammad Aflah Khan, Neemesh Yadav, Sarah Masud, and Md. Shad Akhtar
    In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Jan 2025
    HTML
  3. Essay
    Science NextGen Voices: 2025 and 2050, in haiku
    Rayane Cruz Albino, Yana Suchikova, Gustavo R. Gameiro, Shicong Feng, Sarah Masud, Wadim Strielkowski, Markus Vihma, Bryan J. Field, Rida Ismail, Aishwarya Mitra, Julia Gauffreau, Howard Lopes Ribeiro, Shihao He, Junle Chen, Prosanta Chakrabarty, Song Lin Chua, Zhen Wang, Zelong Lu, Shuoren Li, Yuan Zhi, Karen Jacqueline Cloete, Sara Shakir, Ankita Gupta, and Ufuk Erkılıç
    2025
    DOI
  4. Preprint
    Listening Between the Lines: Decoding Podcast Narratives with Language Modeling
    Shreya Gupta, Ojasva Saxena, Arghodeep Nandi, Sarah Masud, Kiran Garimella, and Tanmoy Chakraborty
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.05310, 2025
    DOI arXiv
  5. PhD Thesis
    Quantifying the role of contextual signals for modelling hateful text
    Sarah Masud
    IIIT-Delhi, Sep 2025
    Supervised by Tanmoy Chakraborty and Vikram Goyal
    HTML

2024

  1. Journal
    Focal inferential infusion coupled with tractable density discrimination for implicit hate detection
    Sarah Masud, Ashutosh Bajpai, and Tanmoy Chakraborty
    Natural Language Processing, 2024
    DOI
  2. Conference
    Probing Critical Learning Dynamics of PLMs for Hate Speech Detection
    Sarah Masud, Mohammad Aflah Khan, Vikram Goyal, Md Shad Akhtar, and Tanmoy Chakraborty
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024, 2024
    DOI
  3. Conference
    Tox-BART: Leveraging Toxicity Attributes for Explanation Generation of Implicit Hate Speech
    Neemesh Yadav, Sarah Masud, Vikram Goyal, Md Shad Akhtar, and Tanmoy Chakraborty
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, 2024
    DOI
  4. Preprint
    Independent fact-checking organizations exhibit a departure from political neutrality
    Sahajpreet Singh, Sarah Masud, and Tanmoy Chakraborty
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.19498, 2024
    DOI arXiv
  5. Essay
    The Promethean Dilemma of AI at the Intersection of Hallucination and Creativity
    Tanmoy Chakraborty and Sarah Masud
    Aug 2024
    DOI
  6. Conference
    Hate Personified: Investigating the role of LLMs in content moderation
    Sarah Masud, Sahajpreet Singh, Viktor Hangya, Alexander Fraser, and Tanmoy Chakraborty
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", (EMNLP’24), 2024
    DOI
  7. Essay
    Preventing bad behavior in academia
    Rayane Cruz Albino, Mark Allen Brimble, Christina Zdenek, Katrien Vandenbroeck, Sarah Masud, Xuan Zhang, Mel Cosentino, Ankita Gupta, Rashad Abdul-Ghani, Casimiro Gerarduzzi, Pamela Jackson, Rebekah Oomen, Bram Servais, Akshatha Manjunatha, Nick Bulthuis, Carmen Romero-Molina, Dequn Teng, Aleksandra Kosanic, Daniela Angeli Dutra, Demos Alekkou, Andressa M. Venturini, Edgar Virguez, and Adetayo Emmanuel Obasa
    2024
    DOI
  8. Preprint
    Information Anxiety in Large Language Models
    Prasoon Bajpai, Sarah Masud, and Tanmoy Chakraborty
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.10813, 2024
    DOI arXiv

2023

  1. Journal
    Handling Bias in Toxic Speech Detection: A Survey
    Tanmay Garg, Sarah Masud, Tharun Suresh, and Tanmoy Chakraborty
    In ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Jan 2023
    DOI
  2. Conference
    Revisiting Hate Speech Benchmarks: From Data Curation to System Deployment
    Atharva Kulkarni, Sarah Masud, Vikram Goyal, and Tanmoy Chakraborty
    In Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Long Beach, CA, USA, 2023
    DOI
  3. Essay
    Judging the creative prowess of AI
    Tanmoy Chakraborty and Sarah Masud
    Nature Machine Intelligence, Jun 2023
    DOI
  4. Journal
    Political mud slandering and power dynamics during Indian assembly elections
    Sarah Masud and Tanmoy Chakraborty
    Social Network Analysis and Mining, Aug 2023
    DOI
  5. Workshop
    Overview of the HASOC Subtrack at FIRE 2023: Identification of Tokens Contributing to Explicit Hate in English by Span Detection
    Sarah Masud, Mohammad Aflah Khan, Md. Shad Akhtar, and Tanmoy Chakraborty
    2023
  6. Workshop
    Overview of the HASOC Subtracks at FIRE 2023: Detection of Hate Spans and Conversational Hate-Speech
    Shrey Satapara, Sarah Masud, Hiren Madhu, Md. Aflah Khan, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Sandip Modha, and Thomas Mandl
    In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, , Panjim, India, , 2023
    DOI

2022

  1. Essay
    Nipping in the Bud: Detection, Diffusion and Mitigation of Hate Speech on Social Media
    Tanmoy Chakraborty and Sarah Masud
    SIGWEB Newsletter., Mar 2022
    DOI
  2. Conference
    Proactively Reducing the Hate Intensity of Online Posts via Hate Speech Normalization
    Sarah Masud, Manjot Bedi, Mohammad Aflah Khan, Md Shad Akhtar, and Tanmoy Chakraborty
    In Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’22), Washington DC, USA, 2022
    DOI
  3. Journal
    DiVA: A Scalable, Interactive and Customizable Visual Analytics Platform for Information Diffusion on Large Networks
    Dhruv Sahnan, Vasu Goel, Sarah Masud, Chhavi Jain, Vikram Goyal, and Tanmoy Chakraborty
    In ACM Transaction on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), Aug 2022
    DOI

2021

  1. Conference
    Hate is the New Infodemic: A Topic-aware Modeling of Hate Speech Diffusion on Twitter
    Sarah Masud, Subhabrata Dutta, Sakshi Makkar, Chhavi Jain, Vikram Goyal, Amitava Das, and Tanmoy Chakraborty
    In 2021 IEEE 37th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’21), 2021
    DOI
  2. Workshop
    Fake News Detection System Using XLNet Model with Topic Distributions
    Akansha Gautam, V. Venktesh, and Sarah Masud
    In Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situation (Shared Task, CONSTRAINT’21, AAAI), 2021
  3. Patent
    Automated software selection using matrix factorization
    Avishkar Gupta, Aagam Shah, and Sarah Masud
    May 2021

2020

  1. Conference
    Deep Exogenous and Endogenous Influence Combination for Social Chatter Intensity Prediction
    Subhabrata Dutta, Sarah Masud, Soumen Chakrabarti, and Tanmoy Chakraborty
    In Proceedings of the 26th SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery &; Data Mining (KDD’20), Virtual Event, CA, USA, 2020
    DOI

2016

  1. Conference
    Framework to extract context vectors from unstructured data using big data analytics
    T. Ahmad, R. Ahmad, Sarah Masud, and F. Nilofer
    In 2016 Ninth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3’16), 2016
    DOI