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07/22/25

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'ReFeR: Improving Evaluation and Reasoning through Hierarchy of Models', was accepted in TMLR.

05/16/25

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Label-semantics Aware Generative Approach for Domain-Agnostic Multilabel Classification', was accepted in ACL Findings 2025.

01/23/25

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Periodic Materials Generation using Text-Guided Joint Diffusion Model', was accepted in ICLR 2025.

12/29/24

Dr. Pawan Goyal is offering a new course on NPTEL titled 'Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing'. Course Website: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_cs22/preview

09/20/24

Dr. Pawan Goyal had three main papers and one Findings paper accepted in EMNLP 2024.

06/11/24

Abhilash Nandy received the Microsoft Research India PhD Award, affiliated with Dr. Pawan Goyal's group.

06/11/24

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'FastDoc: Domain-Specific Fast Continual Pre-training Technique using Document-Level Metadata and Taxonomy', was accepted in TMLR.

05/16/24

Dr. Pawan Goyal's papers, 'IL-TUR: Benchmark for Indian Legal Text Understanding and Reasoning' (long paper, main) and 'On The Persona-based Summarization of Domain-Specific Documents' (short paper, Findings), were accepted in ACL 2024.

03/26/24

Dr. Pawan Goyal's papers, 'Instruction-Guided Bullet Point Summarization of Long Financial Earnings Call Transcripts' (short paper) and 'Legal Statute Identification: A Case Study using State-of-the-Art Datasets and Methods' (Resource and Reproducibility track), were accepted in SIGIR 2024.

03/13/24

Dr. Pawan Goyal's papers, 'Parameter-Efficient Instruction Tuning of Large Language Models For Extreme Financial Numeral Labelling' and 'Order-Based Pre-training Strategies for Procedural Text Understanding', were accepted in NAACL 2024 (main conference).

10/08/23

Dr. Pawan Goyal had four long papers accepted in EMNLP 2023 (Findings).

09/25/23

Dr. Pawan Goyal's proposal, 'A Human-Aligned Automated Evaluation Framework for Natural Language Generation via Large Language Models', was selected for the Microsoft Accelerate Foundation Models Research Program.

05/08/23

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'SanskritShala: A Neural Sanskrit NLP Toolkit with Web-Based Interface for Pedagogical and Annotation Purposes', was accepted in ACL 2023 (System Demonstrations).

05/08/23

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'CrysMMNet: Multimodal Representation for Crystal Property Prediction', was accepted in UAI 2023.

05/02/23

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Financial Numeric Extreme Labelling: A dataset and benchmarking', was accepted in Findings of ACL 2023 (short).

01/22/23

Dr. Pawan Goyal's papers, 'Intent Identification and Entity Extraction for Healthcare Queries in Indic Languages' (Long paper, findings) and 'Systematic Investigation of Strategies Tailored for Low-Resource Settings for Low-Resource Dependency Parsing' (Short paper, main), were accepted in EACL 2023.

11/19/22

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'CrysGNN : Distilling pre-trained knowledge to enhance property prediction for crystalline materials', was accepted in AAAI 2023.

10/06/22

Dr. Pawan Goyal's papers, 'TransLIST: A Transformer-Based Linguistically Informed Sanskrit Tokenizer' (Long paper, findings) and 'ECTSum: A New Benchmark Dataset for Bullet Point Summarization of Long Earnings Call Transcripts' (Long paper, main), were accepted in EMNLP 2022.

09/21/22

Dr. Pawan Goyal's papers, 'Legal Case Document Summarization: Extractive and Abstractive Methods and their Evaluation' (Long paper, main) and 'ArgGen: Prompting Text Generation Models for Document-Level Event-Argument Aggregation' (short paper, findings), were accepted in AACL 2022.

08/17/22

Dr. Pawan Goyal's papers, 'A Novel Multi-Task Learning Approach for Context-Sensitive Compound Type Identification in Sanskrit' (Long paper, Oral presentation) and 'Does Meta-learning Help mBERT for Few-shot Question Generation in a Cross-lingual Transfer Setting for Indic Languages?' (Short paper, poster presentation), were accepted in COLING 2022.

08/16/22

Dr. Pawan Goyal received the Faculty Excellence Award (Associate Level) from IIT Kharagpur.

06/15/22

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Linguistically Informed Post-processing for ASR Error correction in Sanskrit', was accepted in Interspeech.

05/30/22

Dr. Pawan Goyal's proposal, 'Adapting Dialog Systems to New Domains through Natural Language Interactions', was selected as part of Microsoft Academic Partnership Grant (MAPG 2022).

04/08/22

Dr. Pawan Goyal's papers, 'Representation Learning for Conversational Data using Discourse Mutual Information Maximization' and 'A Framework to Generate High-quality Datapoints for Multiple Novel Intent Detection', were accepted in NAACL 2022 (main and findings, respectively).

03/04/22

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Using Data Augmentation to Identify Relevant Reviews for Product Question Answering', was accepted in the Web Conference as a poster.

01/27/22

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'CrysXPP: An Explainable Property Predictor for Crystalline Materials', was accepted in npj Computational Materials.

12/01/21

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'LeSICiN: A Heterogeneous Graph-based Approach for Automatic Legal Statute Identification from Indian Legal Documents', was accepted in AAAI 2022.

10/12/21

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'MTLVS: A Multi-Task Framework to Verify and Summarize Crisis-Related Microblogs', was accepted in WSDM 2022.

09/03/21

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Network Embeddings from Distributional Thesauri for Improving Static Word Representations', was accepted in Expert Systems with Applications.

09/02/21

Dr. Pawan Goyal received the Hypertext Ted Nelson Best Newcomer Paper Award.

08/26/21

Dr. Pawan Goyal's papers, 'PASTE: A Tagging-free Decoding Framework using Pointer Networks for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction' and 'Question Answering over Electronic Devices: A New Benchmark Dataset and a Multi-Task Learning based QA', were accepted in EMNLP 2021 (main and findings, respectively).

06/23/21

Dr. Pawan Goyal's proposal, 'Multilingual Dialogue as a Novel Framework for AutoSuggest', was selected as part of Microsoft Academic Partnership Grant 2021.

05/06/21

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Automatic Speech Recognition in Sanskrit: A New Speech Corpus and Modelling Insights', was accepted in Findings of ACL 2021.

03/11/21

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Hierarchical Transformer for Task Oriented Dialog Systems', was accepted in NAACL-HLT 2021.

01/19/21

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'MatScIE: An automated tool for the generation of databases of methods and parameters used in the computational materials science literature', was accepted in Computational Materials Science, Elsevier.

12/31/20

Dr. Pawan Goyal and Ankan Mullick received the Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF).

12/15/20

Dr. Pawan Goyal had one full paper and one reproducibility track paper accepted in ECIR 2021.

12/02/20

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'HateXplain: A Benchmark Dataset for Explainable Hate Speech Detection', was accepted in AAAI 2021.

10/03/20

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'A Graph Based Framework for Structured Prediction Tasks in Sanskrit', was accepted in Computational Linguistics Journal.

09/30/20

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Automatic Crime Identification from Facts: A Few Sentence-Level Crime Annotations is All You Need', was accepted in COLING.

09/15/20

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Keep it Surprisingly Simple: A Simple First Order Graph Based Parsing Model for Joint Morphosyntactic Parsing in Sanskrit', was accepted in EMNLP as a short paper.

07/24/20

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Hate begets Hate: A Temporal Study of Hate Speech', was accepted in ACM CSCW.

06/10/20

Dr. Pawan Goyal received the Google India AI/ML Research Awards 2020.

04/22/20

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Read what you need: Controllable Aspect-based Opinion Summarization of Tourist Reviews', was accepted in SIGIR 2020 as a short paper.

04/20/20

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Logic Constrained Pointer Networks for Interpretable Textual Similarity', was accepted in IJCAI 2020.

03/07/20

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis of Scientific Reviews', was accepted in JCDL 2020.

02/11/20

Dr. Pawan Goyal had two papers accepted in LREC 2020.

08/13/19

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Incorporating Domain Knowledge into Medical NLI using Knowledge Graphs', was accepted in EMNLP 2019 as a short paper.

07/03/19

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Spread of hate speech in online social media', received the Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) at WebSci 2019.

05/14/19

Dr. Pawan Goyal's long paper, 'On the Compositionality Prediction of Noun Phrases using Poincaré embeddings', and a short paper, 'Poetry to Prose Conversion in Sanskrit as a Linearisation Task: A case for Low-Resource Languages', were accepted in ACL 2019.

04/14/19

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Addressing Vocabulary Gap in E-commerce Search', was accepted in SIGIR 2019 as a short paper.

04/06/19

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Spread of hate speech in online social media', was accepted in WebSci 2019.

03/16/19

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Thou shalt not hate: Countering online hate speech', was accepted in ICWSM 2019.

12/05/18

Dr. Pawan Goyal had one long paper, 'Automated Early Leaderboard Generation From Comparative Tables', and three short papers accepted in ECIR 2019.

08/11/18

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Free as in Free Word Order: An Energy Based Model for Word Segmentation and Morphological Tagging in Sanskrit', was accepted in EMNLP.

08/09/18

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Opinion Conflicts: An Effective Route to Detect Incivility in Twitter', was accepted in CSCW.

07/27/18

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Upcycle Your OCR: Reusing OCRs for Post-OCR Text Correction in Romanised Sanskrit', was accepted in CoNLL.

05/16/18

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'WikiRef: Wikilinks as a route to recommending appropriate references for scientific Wikipedia pages', was accepted in COLING.

04/12/18

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Identifying Sub-events and Summarizing Information during Disasters', was accepted in SIGIR.

02/15/18

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Can Network Embedding of Distributional Thesaurus be Combined with Word Vectors for Better Representation?', was accepted in NAACL-HLT.

12/30/17

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Extracting and Summarizing Situational Information from the Twitter Social Media during Disasters', was accepted in ACM Transactions on the Web.

12/13/17

Dr. Pawan Goyal had two full papers, 'Building a Word Segmenter for Sanskrit Overnight' and 'Network Features Based Co-hyponymy Detection', accepted in LREC 2018 for oral presentations.

12/11/17

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Automated Assistance in E-commerce: An Approach based on Category-Sensitive Retrieval', was accepted in ECIR 2018 as a short paper.

08/21/17

Dr. Pawan Goyal chaired the Young Researchers' Symposium at CODS-COMAD 2018 along with Dr. Amit Awekar from IIT Guwahati.

08/05/17

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Extracting Entities of Interest from Comparative Product Reviews', was accepted in CIKM 2017 as a short paper.

05/29/17

Dr. Pawan Goyal and team organized the ACM summer school on NLP and Machine Learning from June 1st to June 21st, 2017.

05/16/17

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Relay-Linking Models for Prominence and Obsolescence in Evolving Networks', was accepted in KDD 2017 for a poster presentation.

03/21/17

Dr. Pawan Goyal had two full papers, 'Understanding the Impact of Early Citers on Long-Term Scientific Impact' and 'WikiM: Metapaths based Wikification of Scientific Abstracts', and one short paper, 'Citation sentence reuse behavior of scientists: A case study on massive bibliographic text dataset of computer science', accepted in JCDL 2017.

02/25/17

Dr. Pawan Goyal organized a workshop on Complex and Social Networks on March 15th, 2017 in Gargi Auditorium with speakers Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, and Dr. Manish Gupta.

02/23/17

OCR++ developed by Dr. Pawan Goyal was selected for the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award/Appreciation 2017.

02/11/17

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'A Generic Opinion-Fact Classifier with Application in Understanding Opinionatedness in Various News Section', was accepted as a poster in WWW 2017.

09/21/16

Dr. Pawan Goyal's papers, 'Word Segmentation in Sanskrit Using Path Constrained Random Walks' and 'OCR++: A Robust Framework For Information Extraction from Scholarly Articles', were accepted in COLING 2016.

07/19/16

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'peq : An explainable, specification-based, aspect-oriented product comparator for e-commerce', was accepted in ACM CIKM 2016 as a short paper.

04/01/16

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'Summarizing Situational Tweets in Crisis Scenario', was accepted in ACM HyperText 2016.

12/11/15

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'FeRoSA: A Faceted Recommendation System for Scientific Articles', was accepted in PAKDD 2016.

07/04/15

Dr. Pawan Goyal had two papers, 'Extracting Situational Information from Microblogs during Disaster Events: A Classification-Summarization Approach' and 'The role of citation context in predicting long-term citation profiles: an experimental study based on a massive bibliographic text dataset', accepted in ACM CIKM 2015.

05/13/15

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'On the formation of circles in co-authorship networks', was accepted in ACM SIGKDD 2015.

01/12/15

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'An automatic approach to identify word sense changes in text media across timescales', was accepted in JNLE special issue on Graph Methods for NLP.

12/21/14

Dr. Pawan Goyal's paper, 'On the categorization of scientific citation profiles in computer sciences', was accepted in Communications of the ACM.

10/01/14

Dr. Pawan Goyal's proposal, 'IndicView: because language is no more a barrier', was accepted as part of the Google - IIT Pilot program.

09/08/14

Dr. Pawan Goyal received a grant of USD 1000 from Yahoo! Labs towards encouraging student participation in the SNLP course projects.