Publications

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Sustainable AI and LLM Efficiency

Work focused on energy-aware generation and inference benchmarking.

Benchmarking the Energy Savings with Speculative Decoding Strategies

Rohit Dutta, Paramita Koley, Soham Poddar, Janardan Misra, Sanjay Podder, Navveen Balani, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh

Findings of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026

Brevity is the soul of sustainability: Characterizing LLM response lengths

Soham Poddar, Paramita Koley, Janardan Misra, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025

Towards Sustainable NLP: Insights from Benchmarking Inference Energy in Large Language Models

Soham Poddar, Paramita Koley, Janardan Misra, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh

NAACL 2025

Evolution of Vaccine Discourse due to COVID-19

Computational identification and analysis of vaccine opinions, concerns, and misinformation.

How COVID-19 has Impacted the Anti-Vaccine Discourse: A Large-Scale Twitter Study Spanning Pre-COVID and Post-COVID Era

Soham Poddar, Subhendu Khatuya, Rajdeep Mukherjee, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh

ICWSM 2024

MuLX-QA: Classifying Multi-Labels and Extracting Rationale Spans in Social Media Posts

Soham Poddar, Rajdeep Mukherjee, Azlaan Mustafa Samad, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh

ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), 2024

CAVES: A dataset to facilitate explainable classification and summarization of concerns towards COVID vaccines

Soham Poddar, Azlaan Mustafa Samad, Rajdeep Mukherjee, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh

SIGIR 2022

Winds of Change: Impact of COVID-19 on Vaccine-related Opinions of Twitter users

Soham Poddar, Mainack Mondal, Janardan Misra, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh

ICWSM 2022

Legal Summarization

Summarization methods and domain knowledge for legal case documents.

Legal Case Document Summarization: Extractive and Abstractive Methods and their Evaluation

Abhay Shukla, Paheli Bhattacharya, Soham Poddar, Rajdeep Mukherjee, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Pawan Goyal, Saptarshi Ghosh

AACL-IJCNLP 2022

Incorporating Domain Knowledge for Extractive Summarization of Legal Case Documents

Paheli Bhattacharya, Soham Poddar, Koustav Rudra, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Saptarshi Ghosh

ICAIL 2021 — Best Student Paper

Others on Social Media for Social Good

Social media systems for public issues, disaster mitigation.

ICPR 2024 Competition on Multilingual Claim-Span Identification

Soham Poddar, Biswajit Paul, Moumita Basu, Saptarshi Ghosh

ICPR 2024

Utilizing the Twitter social media to identify transportation-related grievances in Indian cities

Rahul Pullanikkat, Soham Poddar, Anik Das, Tushar Jaiswal, Vivek Kumar Singh, Moumita Basu, Saptarshi Ghosh

Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), 2024

A Survey on Disaster: Understanding the After-effects of Super-cyclone Amphan and Helping Hand of Social Media

Soham Poddar, Mainack Mondal, Saptarshi Ghosh

Advances in Urban Design and Engineering, Springer, 2022

Detection of Flood Images Posted on Online Social Media for Disaster Response

Ashish Kumar Layek, Soham Poddar, Sekhar Mandal

ICACCP 2019