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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I will be interning at CSIRO’s Data61 this summer, with Necva and Stephen.
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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 paper, DiaLLM, on the robustness-generation gap in English dialect adaptation, is accepted to EMNLP 2026.
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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@misc{painter2026diallm,
title={DiaLLM: An Investigation into the Robustness-Generation Gap in English Dialect Adaptation},
author={Jordan Painter and Dipankar Srirag and Adarsh Kappiyath and Diptesh Kanojia and Aditya Joshi and Lu Yin},
year={2026},
eprint={2607.07669},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07669},
}
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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{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",
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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@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",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: 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"
}
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