3 papers
cs.CL2026
A PÄninian Foundation for Indic Language Processing
Ritwik Banerjee, Lav R. Varshney
More than a billion people communicate in Indic languages, yet the natural language processing infrastructure serving them remains fragmented and underdeveloped. The cause is struc…
cs.CL2026
A Longitudinal, Multinational, and Multilingual Corpus of News Coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Dikshya Mohanty, Taisiia Sabadyn, Jelwin Rodrigues +3
We present DNIPRO, a corpus of 246K news articles from the Russo-Ukrainian war (Feb 2022 -- Aug 2024) spanning eleven outlets across five nation-states (Russia, Ukraine, U.S., U.K.…
cs.CL2025
Class Distillation with Mahalanobis Contrast: An Efficient Training Paradigm for Pragmatic Language Understanding Tasks
Chenlu Wang, Weimin Lyu, Ritwik Banerjee
Detecting deviant language such as sexism, or nuanced language such as metaphors or sarcasm, is crucial for enhancing the safety, clarity, and interpretation of online social disco…