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most citedTEXT2AFFORD: Probing Object Affordance Prediction abilities of Language Models solely from Text

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10 papers

cs.CL2026

Do LLM Tutors Actually Teach? A Process-Centered Synthesis of the Tutoring Loop

Sayantan Adak, Rima Hazra, Koyel Mukherjee +2

Large language models can produce fluent tu- toring dialogue, but whether they actually help students learn remains unclear. We present a process-centered synthesis of LLM tutoring…

cs.CL2025

ProSocialAlign: Preference Conditioned Test Time Alignment in Language Models

Somnath Banerjee, Sayan Layek, Sayantan Adak +3

Current language model safety paradigms often fall short in emotionally charged or high-stakes settings, where refusal-only approaches may alienate users and naive compliance can a…

cs.CL2025

AURA: Affordance-Understanding and Risk-aware Alignment Technique for Large Language Models

Sayantan Adak, Pratyush Chatterjee, Somnath Banerjee +3

Present day LLMs face the challenge of managing affordance-based safety risks-situations where outputs inadvertently facilitate harmful actions due to overlooked logical implicatio…

cs.CL2025

REVERSUM: A Multi-staged Retrieval-Augmented Generation Method to Enhance Wikipedia Tail Biographies through Personal Narratives

Sayantan Adak, Pauras Mangesh Meher, Paramita Das +1

Wikipedia is an invaluable resource for factual information about a wide range of entities. However, the quality of articles on less-known entities often lags behind that of the we…

cs.CL2025

RA-MTR: A Retrieval Augmented Multi-Task Reader based Approach for Inspirational Quote Extraction from Long Documents

Sayantan Adak, Animesh Mukherjee

Inspirational quotes from famous individuals are often used to convey thoughts in news articles, essays, and everyday conversations. In this paper, we propose a novel context-based…

cs.IR2025

MemeSense: An Adaptive In-Context Framework for Social Commonsense Driven Meme Moderation

Sayantan Adak, Somnath Banerjee, Rajarshi Mandal +4

Online memes are a powerful yet challenging medium for content moderation, often masking harmful intent behind humor, irony, or cultural symbolism. Conventional moderation systems…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

TEXT2AFFORD: Probing Object Affordance Prediction abilities of Language Models solely from Text

Sayantan Adak, Daivik Agrawal, Animesh Mukherjee +1

We investigate the knowledge of object affordances in pre-trained language models (LMs) and pre-trained Vision-Language models (VLMs). A growing body of literature shows that PTLMs…

cs.CL2022

Placing (Historical) Facts on a Timeline: A Classification cum Coref Resolution Approach

Sayantan Adak, Altaf Ahmad, Aditya Basu +1

A timeline provides one of the most effective ways to visualize the important historical facts that occurred over a period of time, presenting the insights that may not be so appar…

cs.CL2021

cs60075_team2 at SemEval-2021 Task 1 : Lexical Complexity Prediction using Transformer-based Language Models pre-trained on various text corpora

Abhilash Nandy, Sayantan Adak, Tanurima Halder +1

This paper describes the performance of the team cs60075_team2 at SemEval 2021 Task 1 - Lexical Complexity Prediction. The main contribution of this paper is to fine-tune transform…

cs.DL2021

Mining the online infosphere: A survey

Sayantan Adak, Souvic Chakraborty, Paramtia Das +7

The evolution of AI-based system and applications had pervaded everyday life to make decisions that have momentous impact on individuals and society. With the staggering growth of…