Dipankar Srirag
Ph.D. Candidate · UNSW Sydney
I am a Ph.D. candidate at the UNSW-NLP group at University of New South Wales, advised by Dr. Aditya Joshi, Dr. Padmanesan Narasimhan, and Dr. Salil Kanhere, and funded by the NHMRC Ideas grant.
My Ph.D. project develops multilingual conversational agents for emergency triage, grounded in real electronic health records. I am currently exploring simultaneous machine translation for dialects of Arabic as a core component of this work.
My broader research background is in dialect robustness: I have built benchmarks and parameter-efficient adaptation methods that evaluate and close the performance gap NLP models exhibit on non-standard English varieties, focusing on sentiment, sarcasm, slang, and conversation understanding across Australian, Indian, and British English.
News
- Apr 2026
Preprint: From Triage to Discharge: A Survey of NLP Tasks, Methods, and Open Challenges in the Emergency Department is now available.
- Mar 2026
TriageSim — a conversational emergency triage simulation framework from electronic health records — released as a Python package with a project site.
- Mar 2026
Far Out — evaluating LMs on slang in Australian and Indian English — accepted to VarDial @ EACL 2026.
- Nov 2025
Preprint: A Taxonomy-Driven Case Study of Australian Web Resources Against Technology-Facilitated Abuse is on arXiv.
- Nov 2025
Nek Minit — pragmatic metacognitive prompting for explainable sarcasm detection of Australian and Indian English — accepted to ALTA 2025, with a Best Paper Honorable Mention.
Selected Publications
BibTeX
@misc{srirag-etal-2026-triagesim,
title = "{TriageSim}: A Conversational Emergency Triage Simulation Framework from Structured Electronic Health Records",
author = "Srirag, Dipankar and Nguyen, Quoc Dung and Joshi, Aditya and Narasimhan, Padmanesan and Kanhere, Salil",
year = "2026",
eprint = "2603.10035",
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
primaryClass = "cs.CL",
url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10035"
}
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@misc{singh-etal-2025-nekminit,
title = "Nek Minit: Harnessing Pragmatic Metacognitive Prompting for Explainable Sarcasm Detection of {A}ustralian and {I}ndian {E}nglish",
author = "Singh, Ishmanbir and Srirag, Dipankar and Joshi, Aditya",
year = "2025",
eprint = "2505.15095",
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
primaryClass = "cs.CL",
url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15095"
}
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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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