Dipankar Srirag
Ph.D. Candidate · UNSW Sydney
I am a Ph.D. candidate at the UNSW-NLP group, where I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Aditya Joshi. My Ph.D. deals with developing language technologies and resources to support linguistically diverse nurse-patient communication and safely support clinical decisions in the emergency department.
I also hold a master’s degree from the University of New South Wales, where my thesis dealt with evaluating and improving the robustness of language models to dialects of English. Beyond my research, I mentor undergraduate students through the Taste of Research program at UNSW, and manage the Natural Language Processing course.
News
- Oct 2026
TriageSim is now published at Interspeech 2026.
- Oct 2026
Two papers accepted to the EMNLP 2026 main conference: our survey From Triage to Discharge, and DiaLLM, which investigates the robustness-generation gap in English dialect adaptation.
- Oct 2026
Retell, Reward, Repeat, on reinforcement learning for narrative theory-informed story retelling, published at INLG 2026.
- Sep 2026
Preprint: LLMs Anchor on Chief Complaint and Fail to Integrate Evidence in Sequential Clinical Triage is on arXiv.
- May 2026
PAREDA, a multi-accent speech dataset of NLP research discussions, published at SPEAKABLE @ LREC 2026.
Selected Publications
BibTeX
@inproceedings{srirag26_interspeech,
title = {{TriageSim: A Conversational Emergency Triage Simulation Framework from Structured Electronic Health Records}},
author = {Dipankar Srirag and Quoc Dung Nguyen and Aditya Joshi and Padmanesan Narasimhan and Salil Kanhere},
year = {2026},
booktitle = {{Interspeech 2026}},
pages = {1997--2001},
doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2026-819},
issn = {2958-1796},
}
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@misc{srirag2026llmsanchorchiefcomplaint,
title={LLMs Anchor on Chief Complaint and Fail to Integrate Evidence in Sequential Clinical Triage},
author={Dipankar Srirag and Haokai Zhao and Ashutosh Kumar and Eleanor Hopper and Michael Dalton and Quoc Dung Nguyen and Aditya Joshi and Salil S. Kanhere and Padmanesan Narasimhan},
year={2026},
eprint={2609.22904},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22904},
}
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@misc{srirag2026triagedischargesurveynlp,
title={From Triage to Discharge: A Survey of NLP Tasks, Methods, and Open Challenges in the Emergency Department},
author={Dipankar Srirag and Aditya Joshi and Salil Kanhere and Padmanesan Narasimhan},
year={2026},
eprint={2608.23627},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23627},
}
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@inproceedings{srirag-etal-2025-besstie,
title = "{BESSTIE}: A Benchmark for Sentiment and Sarcasm Classification for Varieties of {E}nglish",
author = "Srirag, Dipankar and Joshi, Aditya and Painter, Jordan and Kanojia, Diptesh",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025",
month = jul,
year = "2025",
address = "Vienna, Austria",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.441/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.441",
pages = "8413--8429"
}
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