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most citedLegal Case Document Summarization: Extractive and Abstractive Methods and their Evaluation

13 citations · 28 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.LG2026

Benchmarking the Energy Savings with Speculative Decoding Strategies

Rohit Dutta, Paramita Koley, Soham Poddar +5

Speculative decoding has emerged as an effective method to reduce latency and inference cost of LLM inferences. However, there has been inadequate attention towards the energy requ…

cs.CL2025

Utilising Large Language Models for Generating Effective Counter Arguments to Anti-Vaccine Tweets

Utsav Dhanuka, Soham Poddar, Saptarshi Ghosh

In an era where public health is increasingly influenced by information shared on social media, combatting vaccine skepticism and misinformation has become a critical societal goal…

cs.CL2025

Brevity is the soul of sustainability: Characterizing LLM response lengths

Soham Poddar, Paramita Koley, Janardan Misra +4

A significant portion of the energy consumed by Large Language Models (LLMs) arises from their inference processes; hence developing energy-efficient methods for inference is cruci…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

Towards Sustainable NLP: Insights from Benchmarking Inference Energy in Large Language Models

Soham Poddar, Paramita Koley, Janardan Misra +3

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly recognized for their exceptional generative capabilities and versatility across various tasks. However, the high inference costs assoc…

cs.CL2024

ICPR 2024 Competition on Multilingual Claim-Span Identification

Soham Poddar, Biswajit Paul, Moumita Basu +1

A lot of claims are made in social media posts, which may contain misinformation or fake news. Hence, it is crucial to identify claims as a first step towards claim verification. G…

cs.SI2024★ 3 cited

How COVID-19 has Impacted the Anti-Vaccine Discourse: A Large-Scale Twitter Study Spanning Pre-COVID and Post-COVID Era

Soham Poddar, Rajdeep Mukherjee, Subhendu Khatuya +2

The debate around vaccines has been going on for decades, but the COVID-19 pandemic showed how crucial it is to understand and mitigate anti-vaccine sentiments. While the pandemic…

cs.CL2022★ 13 cited

Legal Case Document Summarization: Extractive and Abstractive Methods and their Evaluation

Abhay Shukla, Paheli Bhattacharya, Soham Poddar +4

Summarization of legal case judgement documents is a challenging problem in Legal NLP. However, not much analyses exist on how different families of summarization models (e.g., ext…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

CAVES: A Dataset to facilitate Explainable Classification and Summarization of Concerns towards COVID Vaccines

Soham Poddar, Azlaan Mustafa Samad, Rajdeep Mukherjee +2

Convincing people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is a key societal challenge in the present times. As a first step towards this goal, many prior works have relied on social med…

cs.SI2021★ 1 cited

Winds of Change: Impact of COVID-19 on Vaccine-related Opinions of Twitter users

Soham Poddar, Mainack Mondal, Janardan Misra +2

Administering COVID-19 vaccines at a societal scale has been deemed as the most appropriate way to defend against the COVID-19 pandemic. This global vaccination drive naturally fue…

cs.CL2021

Incorporating Domain Knowledge for Extractive Summarization of Legal Case Documents

Paheli Bhattacharya, Soham Poddar, Koustav Rudra +2

Automatic summarization of legal case documents is an important and practical challenge. Apart from many domain-independent text summarization algorithms that can be used for this…

cs.CY2020★ 7 cited

A Survey on Disaster: Understanding the After-effects of Super-cyclone Amphan and Helping Hand of Social Media

Soham Poddar, Mainack Mondal, Saptarshi Ghosh

The super-cyclonic storm "Amphan" hit Eastern India, specifically the state of West Bengal, Odisha and parts of Bangladesh in May 2020, and caused severe damage to the regions. In…