Activities
A summary of my professional activities
2024
Mar 19, 2024 Shared task paper got accepted at SemEval 2024, co-located with NAACL.
Feb 24, 2024 Paper on multi-domain Bangla ASR got accepted at IEEE Access.
Feb 13, 2024 Obtained the highest mark amongst students who obtained a Pass with Distinction classification in the cohort at the University of Malta during the MSc. in Human Language Science and Technology.
Jan 26, 2024 SUBAK.KO, a 241-hour long Bangla ASR corpus, is now publicly available. [Link]
2023
May 24, 2023 Paper accepted at IWSLT 2023. Title: "UM-DFKI Maltese Speech Translation".
May 19, 2023 Our NoDaLiDa paper got published! Title: "Slaapte or Sliep? Extending Neural-Network Simulations of English Past Tense Learning to Dutch and German".
Apr 6, 2023 Our paper titled "garNER at SemEval - 2023: Simplified Knowledge Augmentation for Multilingual Complex Named Entity Recognition" got accepted at the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2023)!
Mar 20, 2023 Our paper titled "Slaapte or sliep? Extending neural-network simulations of English past tense learning to German and Dutch" got accepted at the Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa 2023)!
Feb 11, 2023 Our paper titled "Arguments to Key Points Mapping with Prompt-based Learning" is now available on ACL Anthology.
2022
Nov 11, 2022 Our paper titled "Analysis of Male and Female Speakers' Word Choices in Public Speeches" is now available on arXiv.
Nov 1, 2022 Our paper titled "Arguments to Key Points Mapping with Prompt-based Learning" got accepted at ICNLSP 2022!
Oct 24, 2022 Our recent paper on domain selection and ASR performance is now available on arXiv.
Oct 19, 2022 I will be interning at the Speech Lab Groningen, University of Groningen, under the supervision of Prof. Martijn Wieling and Martijn Bartelds, beginning in November 2022.
Oct 10, 2022 Got accepted to the Advanced Language Processing Winter School (ALPS 2023), co-organized by Université Grenoble Alpes and Naver Labs Europe, with a student grant.
Oct 03, 2022 Started a new semester of the EM-LCT program at the University of Malta, Malta with a fully-funded scholarship from the European Union.
Aug 29, 2022 Participated in the EM-LCT Summer School 2022 held at DFKI and Saarland University, Germany.
July 24, 2022 Participated in the Lisbon Machine Learning School 2022 from July 24 to July 30 held in Lisbon, Portugal.
July 20, 2022 Preprint of a short paper on semantics of monkey communication is now available in Lingbuzz.
July 18, 2022 Our Text-to-Speech system for Gronings has been released! (click here) The models can be downloaded from HuggingFace.
May 31, 2022 Got a scholarship provided by Google, DeepMind and Zendesk to participate in the Lisbon Machine Learning School to be held in Lisbon, Portugal in July 2022.
April 14, 2022 Got the Best Student Project Award 2022 for the project titled "Is Connectionism Trustworthy in the Computational Simulation of Language?" in the NLP course at the University of Groningen.
Mar 22, 2022 Abstract on semantic of monkey calls accepted at TABU Dag 2022 conference for presentation.
Feb 15, 2022 Started Research Training at the Speech Lab Groningen (SLG) at the University of Groningen.
2021
Dec 10, 2021 Our project titled "AI Customer Service: The Future Smart Customer Support for Better Customer Satisfaction" from the AIMS Lab won the highest prize for getting selected among the top 10 innovative ideas competing with 1051 submissions at the IC4IR Mujib 100 Idea Contest 2021.
Dec 09, 2021 Our paper titled "Intelligent Call Center Support integrating with Speaker and Interaction Recognition using NLP" has been acceped at the ETCCE conference 2021.
Dec 08, 2021 Our paper titled "Bangladeshi Bangla Speech Corpus for Automatic Speech Recognition Research" has been acceped at the "Speech Communication" journal published by Elsevier.
Dec 07, 2021 Our paper titled "Human-Robot interaction in Bengali Language for healthcare automation integrated with Speaker Recognition and Artificial conversational Entity" has been acceped at the ICEEE conference 2021.
Sep 06, 2021 Started my Erasmus Mundus Research Masters program at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands with a full-funded scholarship from the European Union. .
Sep 01, 2021 Our paper titled "Deep learning based large vocabulary continuous speech recognition of an under-resourced language Bangladeshi Bangla" is now published at the "Acoustical Science and Technology" journal published by the Acoustical Society of Japan.
April 13, 2021 Our paper titled "Deep learning based large vocabulary continuous speech recognition of an under-resourced language Bangladeshi Bangla" has been acceped at the "Acoustical Science and Technology" journal published by the Acoustical Society of Japan.