7 papers
5-Dialects-BN: Unmasking the Impact of Transliteration on Bangla Dialectal LLMs
Md Mahir Jawad, Galib Mahmud Jim, Rafid Ahmed +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress across natural language processing (NLP) tasks, yet their capabilities degrade sharply for low-resource languages and…
BanglaMemeX: Advancing Cultural Metaphoric Image Interpretation in Bangla with a Multimodal Explainable Dataset
Md. Sadman Sakib, Zisan Mahmud, Md. Fahim Arefin +1
Vision Language Models have achieved strong performance on multimodal benchmarks, yet their ability to reason about culturally grounded and metaphor-rich content remains insufficie…
How Good LLMs Are at Answering Bangla Medical Visual Questions? Dataset and Benchmarking
Rafid Ahmed, Intesar Tahmid, Mir Sazzat Hossain +3
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have enabled general-purpose systems to demonstrate promising capabilities in complex r…
Embodied Referring Expression Comprehension in Human-Robot Interaction
Md Mofijul Islam, Alexi Gladstone, Sujan Sarker +5
As robots enter human workspaces, there is a crucial need for them to comprehend embodied human instructions, enabling intuitive and fluent human-robot interaction (HRI). However,…
BD at BEA 2025 Shared Task: MPNet Ensembles for Pedagogical Mistake Identification and Localization in AI Tutor Responses
Shadman Rohan, Ishita Sur Apan, Muhtasim Ibteda Shochcho +4
We present Team BD's submission to the BEA 2025 Shared Task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors, under Track 1 (Mistake Identification) and Track 2 (Mistake Loca…
ChitroJera: A Regionally Relevant Visual Question Answering Dataset for Bangla
Deeparghya Dutta Barua, Md Sakib Ul Rahman Sourove, Md Fahim +6
Visual Question Answer (VQA) poses the problem of answering a natural language question about a visual context. Bangla, despite being a widely spoken language, is considered low-re…
BanTH: A Multi-label Hate Speech Detection Dataset for Transliterated Bangla
Fabiha Haider, Fariha Tanjim Shifat, Md Farhan Ishmam +4
The proliferation of transliterated texts in digital spaces has emphasized the need for detecting and classifying hate speech in languages beyond English, particularly in low-resou…