I am a PhD candidate at the UNSW-NLP group, where I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Aditya Joshi. My research develops language technologies and resources for multilingual emergency departments: simulating nurse-patient triage conversations, building triage support systems that update as the conversation unfolds, 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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