I am a PhD candidate at the UNSW-NLP group, where I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Aditya Joshi. My research deals with developing language technologies and resources for the emergency department: simulating nurse-patient triage conversations, building triage support systems, and aiding communication with linguistically diverse patients.
My master’s thesis evaluated and improved how language models understand conversations in different dialects of English. I manage COMP6713: Natural Language Processing at UNSW and mentor undergraduate researchers through the Taste of Research program.
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Aditya and I are presenting a tutorial on NLP for the emergency department at AJCAI 2026 🇳🇿
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Diego, Aditya and I are organising the ALTA 2026 shared task on sentiment and sarcasm classification for Australian and British English.
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Our survey on NLP for the emergency department, From Triage to Discharge, is accepted to EMNLP 2026! Find me in Budapest 🇭🇺
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Jordan’s DiaLLM and Sharath’s SAPS are accepted to EMNLP 2026 and Findings.
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David’s paper, Retell, Reward, Repeat, on reinforcement learning for narrative theory-informed story retelling, is accepted to INLG 2026. Catch him in Utrecht 🇳🇱
BibTeX
@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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@inproceedings{srirag-etal-2026-triage,
title = "From Triage to Discharge: A Survey of {NLP} Tasks, Methods, and Open Challenges in the Emergency Department",
author = "Srirag, Dipankar and
Joshi, Aditya and
Kanhere, Salil S. and
Narasimhan, Padmanesan",
editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and
Dev, Sunipa and
Li, Jessy and
Elliott, Desmond",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = oct,
year = "2026",
address = "Budapest, Hungary",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.908/",
pages = "20918--20942",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}
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@inproceedings{painter-etal-2026-diallm,
title = "{D}ia{LLM}: An Investigation into the Robustness-Generation Gap in {E}nglish Dialect Adaptation",
author = "Painter, Jordan and
Srirag, Dipankar and
Kappiyath, Adarsh and
Kanojia, Diptesh and
Joshi, Aditya and
Yin, Lu",
editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and
Dev, Sunipa and
Li, Jessy and
Elliott, Desmond",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = oct,
year = "2026",
address = "Budapest, Hungary",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.2321/",
pages = "52728--52745",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}
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@inproceedings{naganna-etal-2026-scaled,
title = "Scaled Autoregressive Projection Steering ({SAPS}): Token-level Steering to Induce Sarcasm and Humblebrag in Text",
author = "Naganna, Sharath and
Chowdhury, Ritesh Sur and
Srirag, Dipankar and
Joshi, Aditya",
editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and
Dev, Sunipa and
Li, Jessy and
Elliott, Desmond",
booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026",
month = oct,
year = "2026",
address = "Budapest, Hungary",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1594/",
pages = "33932--33961",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}
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@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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@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",
editor = "Che, Wanxiang and
Nabende, Joyce and
Shutova, Ekaterina and
Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher",
booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {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",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-256-5"
}
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@inproceedings{srirag-etal-2025-predicting,
title = "Predicting the Target Word of Game-playing Conversations using a Low-Rank Dialect Adapter for Decoder Models",
author = "Srirag, Dipankar and
Joshi, Aditya and
Eisenstein, Jacob",
editor = "Chiruzzo, Luis and
Ritter, Alan and
Wang, Lu",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the {A}mericas Chapter of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
month = apr,
year = "2025",
address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-short.2/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-short.2",
pages = "8--17",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-190-2"
}
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