Research Interest

Recommendation Systems, Information retrieval, Social Network Analysis, Data Mining, Machine Learning

Publications

Books / Chapters
Maundndra Sankar Desarkar. Multi-parameter Auctions: Truthfulness Conditions and Applications to Page Allocation in Distributed Shared Memory Multiprocessors. Pulisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN-10: 384439608X. Link
Journal/Book Publications
Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Laurie Hughes, Harshad K.D.H. Bhadeshia, Sophia Ananiadou, Anthony G. Cohn, Jacqueline M. Cole, Gareth J. Conduit, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Xinwei Wang. Artificial intelligence (AI) futures: India-UK collaborations emerging from the 4th Royal Society Yusuf Hamied workshop. International Journal of Information Management, 2023. Link
Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Manish Gupta and Puneet Agrawal. Trie-NLG: Trie Context Augmentation to Improve Personalized Query Auto-Completion for Short and Unseen Prefixes. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 2023. Also presented during ECML-PKDD 2023 conference during 18-22 Sep, 2023 Pre-Print
Arkadipta De, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, and Asif Ekbal. Towards Improvement of Grounded Cross-Lingual Natural Language Inference with VisioTextual Attention. Accepted for publication in Elsevier Natural Language Processing Journal. Link
Samujjwal Ghosh, Subhadeep Maji and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Global and Local Graph Neural Networks under Limited Supervision and its Application to Disaster Response. Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. Link from publisher's website|Arxiv Link
Sreekanth Madisetty, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. A Reranking-based Tweet Retrieval Approach for Planned Events.. World Wide Web Journal (Springer) (Accepted). Link
Sreekanth Madisetty, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Akiko Aizawa. A Neural Approach for Detecting Inline Mathematical Expressions from Scientific Documents.. Expert Systems (Wiley) (Accepted). Link
Smita Roy, Asif Ekbal, Samrat Mondal, and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, and Shubham Chattopadhyay. Towards Predicting Risk of Coronary Artery Disease from Semi-structured Dataset. Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences (Springer) (Accepted). Link
Sreekanth Madisetty, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar: Identification of Relevant Hashtags for Planned Events Using Learning to Rank.. Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Communications in Computer and Information Science (Springer), vol 976, March 2019, pp. 82-99. Link
Sreekanth Madisetty, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar: A Neural Network Based Ensemble Approach for Spam Detection in Twitter. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. pp. 1-12. Link| Local Copy
Smita Roy, Samrat Mondal, Asif Ekbal, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar: Dispersion Ratio Based Decision Tree Model for Classification. Expert Systems With Applications (Elsevier). Volume 116, February 2019, Pages 1-9. Link
Samujjwal Ghosh, Srijith P. K., and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar: Using Social Media for Classifying Actionable Insights in Disaster Scenario. International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences (Springer), December 2017, Volume 9, Issue 4, pp 224–237. Link
Maundndra Sankar Desarkar, Sudeshna Sarkar, and Pabitra Mitra: Preference Relations Based Unsupervised Rank Aggregation for Metasearch. Expert Systems With Applications (Elsevier). Volume 49, 1 May 2016, Pages 86-98. Link
K. M. Vamsikrishna, Debi Prosad Dogra, Maundndra Sankar Desarkar: Computer Vision Assisted Palm Rehabilitation With Supervised Learning. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. Accepted. Link
Conference Publications
Debolena Basak, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Aerial Mirage: Unmasking Hallucinations in Large Vision Language Models. IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2025) . Sep 2024. Link to be added
Suvodip Dey, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. BoK: Introducing Bag-of-Keywords Loss for Interpretable Dialogue Response Generation. 25th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2024) . Sep 2024. Link
Aishwarya Maheswaran, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Manish Gupta, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. DAC: Quantized Optimal Transport Reward-based Reinforcement Learning Approach to Detoxify Query Auto-Completion. SIGIR 2024. July 2024 Link
Kaushal Maurya, Rahul Kejriwal, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Anoop Kunchukuttan. CharSpan: Utilizing Lexical Similarity to Enable Zero-Shot Machine Translation for Extremely Low-resource Languages. EACL 2024. March 2024 Link
Debolena Basak, PK Srijith, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Transformer based Multitask Learning for Image Captioning and Object Detections. PAKDD 2024. May 2024 Link from Publisher's Website | Arxiv
Aishwarya Maheswaran, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Manish Gupta, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. DQAC: Detoxifying Query Auto-completion with Adapters. PAKDD 2024. May 2024 Link
Sayanta Adhikari, Himanshu Sharma, Rupa Kumari, Shrey Satapara, Maunendra Desarkar. DEFAULT at CheckThat! 2024: Retrieval Augmented Classification using Differentiable Top-K Operator for Rumor Verification based on Evidence from Authorities. CLEF 2024. September, 2024, Grenoble, France Link
Minal Nitin Dani and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Detecting Attribute Information in Notice to Airman. NLDB 2024. June 2024 Link
Dhwani Jakhaniya and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Analyzing the Dynamics of Hate Speech on Online Platforms. FOSINT-SI 2024 (with ASONAM 2024). September 2024 Link to be added
Maharaj Brahma, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. SelectNoise: Unsupervised Noise Injection to Enable Zero-Shot Machine Translation for Extremely Low-resource Languages. Findings of EMNLP. 6-10 Dec, 2023 Link
Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Towards Low-resource Language Generation with Limited Supervision. BigPicture Workshop at EMNLP 2023. 6-10 Dec, 2023 Link
Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Manish Gupta and Puneet Agrawal. Trie-NLG: Trie Context Augmentation to Improve Personalized Query Auto-Completion for Short and Unseen Prefixes. ECML-PKDD (Journal Track) 18-22 Sep, 2023 From publisher's website | Pre-Print
Suvodip Dey, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Dial-M: A Masking-based Framework for Dialogue Evaluation. 24th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2023) (Nominated for best short paper award). Sep 11-15, 2023. Link
Sharan Narasimhan, Pooja H, Suvodip Dey and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. On Text Style Transfer via Style Masked Language Models. 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2023). 11-15 Sep, 2023. Link
Manisha Dubey, Srijith P.K., Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Time-to-Event Modeling with Hypernetwork based Hawkes Process. Accepted in Applied Data Sciences Track in 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD 2023). Aug 6-10, 2023. Link
Venkatesh E, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Deepak Kumar and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar DivHSK: Diverse Headline Generation using Self-Attention based Keyword Selection. Accepted in 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023). Jul 9-14, 2023. Link
Arkadipta De, Satya Swaroop Gudipudi, Sourab Panchanan and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar ComplAI: Framework for Multi-factor Assessment of Black-Box Supervised Machine Learning Models. In the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2023). Mar 27-31, 2023. Link from Publisher's Website | Arxiv link for the longer version
Manisha Dubey, P.K Srijith and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Continual Learning for Time-to-Event Modeling. Accepted at Workshop on Continual Lifelong Learning, 12th Asian conference on machine learning (ACML) 2022. Dec 12-14, 2022. Link
Sharan Narasimhan, Suvodip Dey, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Towards Robust and Semantically Organised Latent Representations for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer. 2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. July 10-15, 2022. Arxiv
Kaushal Kumar Maurya and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Meta-XNLG: A Meta-Learning Approach Based on Language Clustering for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer and Generation. Findings of 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Findings of ACL 2022. May 22-27, 2022. Link
Suvodip Dey, Kummara Ramamohan and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Towards Fair Evaluation of Dialogue State Tracking by Flexible Incorporation of Turn-level Performances. 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2022. May 22-27, 2022. Link
Samujjwal Ghosh, Subhadeep Maji and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. GNoM: Graph Neural Network Enhanced Language Models for Disaster Related Multilingual Text Classification. 14th ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci 2022. June 26–29, 2022.Link
Aditi Bagora, Kamal Shrestha, Kaushal Maurya and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Hostility Detection in Online Hindi-English code-mixed Conversations. 14th ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci 2022. June 26–29, 2022. Link
Arkadipta De and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Multi-Context Based Neural Approach for COVID-19 Fake-News Detection. 10th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media at ACM Web Conference 2022 (SocialNLP@WebConf22), Apr 25-29, 2022. Link
Priyambada Ambastha and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. mTransDial: Multilingual Dataset for Transport Domain Dialog Systems. AI for Transportation Workshop at AAAI 2022, Feb 28 - Mar 1, 2022. Link to be added
Samujjwal Ghosh, Subhadeep Maji and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Effective Utilization of Labeled Data from Related Tasks Using Graph Contrastive Pre-Training. The 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2022), April 25-29, 2022. Arxiv Link
Manisha Dubey, P.K. Srijith and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Multi-view Hypergraph Convolution Network for Semantic Annotation in LBSNs. The 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2021), 08-11 Nov 2021. Link
Priyambada Ambastha, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. mTransDial: Multilingual Dataset for Transport Domain DialogSystems (Poster) ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies 2021 (COMPASS 2021), 28 June – 2 July 2021. Copy of extended version
Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Yoshinobu Kano and Kumari Deepshikha. ZmBART: An Unsupervised Cross-lingual Transfer Framework for Language Generation. Findings of ACL 2021 (59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing), August 2-6, 2021. Link
Suvodip Dey and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Hi-DST: A Hierarchical Approach for Scalable and Extensible Dialogue State Tracking . 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2021), July 29-31, 2021. Link
Sreekanth Madisetty, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Social Media Popularity Prediction of Planned Events using Deep Learning. 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021), March 29 - April 1 2021. Link
Arkadipta De, Venkatesh E, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Coarse and Fine-Grained Hostility Detection in Hindi Posts using Fine Tuned Multilingual Embeddings. CONSTRAINT (Workshop on Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situation) at AAAI 2021, February 8, 2021. (Shared task best paper honorable mention) Link
Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Learning to Distract: A Hierarchical Multi-Decoder Network for Automatic Generation of Long Distractors for Reading Comprehension. 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020), 19-23 October 2020. Link
Samujjwal Ghosh, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Semi-Supervised Granular Classification Framework for Resource Constrained Short-texts: Towards Retrieving Situational Information During Disaster Events. 12th ACM Web Science Conference, ACM WebSci 2020, London, July 7-10, 2020. Link
Priyambada Ambastha, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Incident Detection From Social Media Targeting Indian Traffic Scenario Using Transfer Learning. 23rd IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, IEEE ITSC 2020, Rhodes, Greece, September 20-23, 2020. Link
Abhishek A. Patwardhan, Santanu Das, Sakshi Varshney, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Debi Prosad Dogra. ViTag: Automatic Video Tagging Using Segmentation and Conceptual Inference. Fifth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data, BigMM 2019, Singapore, September 11-13, 2019. Link
Swapnil Dewalkar, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Multi-Context Information for Word Representation Learning. The 19th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng), Berlin, Germany, 23rd-26th September, 2019. Link
Uddipta Bhattacharjee, Srijith P. K., Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Term Specific TF-IDF Boosting for Detection of Rumours in Social Networks. Social Networking Workshop in 11th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bengaluru, India, 7th-11th January 2019. Link
Uddipta Bhattacharjee, Srijith P. K., Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Leveraging Social Media Towards Understanding Anti-Vaccination Campaigns. NetHealth Workshop in 11th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bengaluru, India, 7th-11th January 2019. Link
Rohan Tondulkar, Manisha Dubey, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Get Me The Best: Predicting Best Answerers in Community Question Answering Sites. 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Vancouver, Canada, 2nd-7th October 2018. Link
Shamik Kundu, Srijith P.K and Maunendra Sankar DesarkarS. Classification of Short-Texts Generated During Disasters: A Deep Neural Network Based Approach. International Symposium on Foundations of Open Source Intelligence and Security Informatics (FOSINT-SI, in conjunction with ASONAM 2018), Barcelona, Spain, August 28-31, 2018. Link
Priyanka Choudhary, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. PReFacTO: Preference Relations Based Factor Model with Topic Awareness and Offset. ECommerce Workshop in SIGIR 2018, Michigan, USA. 8th-12th July, 2018. Link
Rashmi HTI, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Personalized Tourist Package Recommendation using Graph Based Approach. Late Breaking Results in User Modelling Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) 2018, Singapore, 8th-12th July, 2018. Link
Samujjwal Ghosh, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Class Specific TF-IDF Boosting for Short-text Classification: Application to Short-texts Generated During Disasters. Workshop on Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness (SMERP) at ACM WebConf 2018, Lyon, France, April 23–27, 2018 Link
Sreekanth Madisetty, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar: An Ensemble Based Method for Predicting Emotion Intensity of Tweets. 5th International Conference on. Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration (MIKE) 2017, Hyderabad, India, December 13-15, 2017. Link
Sreekanth Madisetty, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar: Exploiting Meta Attributes for Identifying Event Related Hashtags. 9th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR 2017), Madeira, Portugal, November 1-3, 2017. Link
Sreekanth Madisetty, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. NSEmo at EmoInt-2017: An Ensemble to Predict Emotion Intensity in Tweets . 8th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA) 2017 at EMNLP 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 7–11, 2017 Link
Sreekanth Madisetty, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar: IITH at CLEF 2017: Finding Relevant Tweets for Cultural Events. Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction: 8th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2017, Dublin, Ireland, September 11-14, 2017. Link
Smita Roy, Samrat Mondal, Asif Ekbal and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar: CRDT: Correlation Ratio Based Decision Tree Model for Healthcare Data Mining. 16th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE) 2016. Link
Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Neha Shinde: Diversification in News Recommendation for Privacy Concerned Users. IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA) 2014 (ACM SIGKDD Sponsored) Link
Sanjay Chatterji, G. S. Sreedhara, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar: An Efficient Tool for Syntactic Processing of English Query Text. 2nd International Conference on. Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration (MIKE) 2014: 278-287 Link
Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Sandip Bhaumik, Sailesh K. Sathish, Satnam Singh, Ranga V. Narayanan: Med-Tree: A user knowledge graph framework for medical applications. 13th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE) 2013: 1-4 Link
Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Sudeshna Sarkar. User Based Collaborative Filtering with Temporal Information for Purchase Data in 4th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, KDIR 2012, Barcelona, Oct 4-7, 2012 Link
Abir De, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Niloy Ganguly and Pabitra Mitra. Local Learning of Item Dissimilarity Using Content and Link Structure in 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2012, Dublin, September 9-13, 2012 Link
Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Sudeshna Sarkar. Rating Prediction Using Preference Relations Based Matrix Factorization . FactMod 2012 Workshop on Matrix Factorization Techniques for User Preference and Skills Modeling at UMAP 2012, Montreal, July 16-20, 2012 Link
Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Sudeshna Sarkar, and Roopam Saxena. Preference Relation Based Matrix Factorization for Recommender Systems in 20th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2012, Montreal, July 16-20, 2012. Link
Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Rahul Joshi, and Sudeshna Sarkar. Displacement Based Unsupervised Metric for Evaluating Rank Aggregation in 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, PReMI 2011, Moscow, June 25 - July 1, 2011. Link
Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Sudeshna Sarkar, and Pabitra Mitra. Aggregating Preference Graphs for Collaborative Rating Prediction in 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2010, Barcelona, Sep 26-30, 2010. Link

Projects

Projects (Ongoing and Completed)
Explainable and Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Learning Business Insights from Alternate Data. Co-PI. Research grant from Accenture Technology Labs, India. Duration: Sept 2021 - Sep 2022
Zero-shot Multi-lingual Personalized Auto-suggest Generation . PI. Research grant from Microsoft India R&D Pvt Ltd. Duration: Aug 2021 - Jul 2022
M2SMART SATREPS Project: Multimodal Regional Transport System - Smart Cities for Emerging Countries based on Sensing, Networking, and Big Data Analysis. Co-PI, and Group Lead for Big Data Analytics. Funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Funding amount: INR 30 Crores, USD 4.6 Millions. Duration: June 2017 - March 2022
Machine Learning Models using Alternative Data Sources. Co-PI. Research grant from Accenture Technology Labs, India. Duration: Sept 2019 - Aug 2020
Conversion between natural language and structured queries. PI. Funded by Honeywell India. Duration: August 2019 - Feb 2020
Semantic Analysis of Banking Regulatory Documents. PI. Funded by Parabole India Private Limited. Duration: Sep 2017 - Mar 2018

Patents

Patent Applications
Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Kamal Shrestha, Anila Mathur. A METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING JOBS FOR DIFFERENTLY ABLED INDIVIDUALS. Filed at India Patent Office in 2024
Hari Manassery Koduvely, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. Method and System for Performing Adaptive Document Classification on a Computing Device. Filed at India Patent Office in 2015. Granted in 2024.
Sandip Bhaumik, Sailesh K. Satish, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Rangavittal Narayanan. Method and System For Generating Medical Recommendations Based On A Knowledge Graph. Filed at India Patent Office in 2013. Granted in 2024.