Latest (Preprints)
- Social Norms in Cinema: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Shame, Pride and Prejudice 📰 featured in The Great Gender Divergence
- Cross-Cultural Considerations for Designing Mental Health Applications: Ten Practical Recommendations
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Selected Publications
- Havaldar, S, Giorgi, S, Rai, S., Talhelm, T, Ungar, L., Guntuku, S.C. (2024). Building Knowledge Guided Lexica to Model Cultural Variation. NAACL’24.
- Rai, S., Stade, E. C., Giorgi, S., Francisco, A., Ungar, L. H., Curtis, B., & Guntuku, S. C. (2024). Key language markers of depression on social media depend on race. PNAS. Paper 🏆 Plenary talk at IC2S2 2023.
- Cho, Y.M., Rai, S., Ungar, L., Sedoc J., Guntuku, S.C. (2023). An Integrative Survey on Mental Health Conversational Agents to Bridge Computer Science and Medical Perspectives. EMNLP’23, Singapore.
- Havaldar, S., Rai, S., Singhal, B., Liu, L, Guntuku, S.C., & Ungar, L. (2023). Multilingual Language Models are not Multicultural: A Case Study in Emotion. WASSA’23, ACL. Paper - 🏆 Best Paper Award
- Joseph, R., Liu, T., Ng, A.B., See S., & Rai, S. (2023) NewsMet : A ‘do it all’ dataset of contemporary Metaphors in News headlines. ACL’23 Findings (Long). Paper + Data + Poster
- Aggarwal, A., Rai, S., Giorgi, S., Havaldar, S., Sherman, G., Mittal, J. & Guntuku, S. C. (2023). A Cross-Modal Study of Pain Across Communities in the United States. WWW’23 Companion. Link
- Bogireddy, N.R., Suresh S., & Rai, S. (2023). I’m out of breath from laughing! I think? A dataset of COVID-19 Humor and its toxic variants. WWW’23 Companion. Preprint and Dataset available here. 🏆 Dataset for CLEF 2024 Automatic Humor Analysis
- Rai, S., Joseph R., Thakur P.S. & Khaliq A.M. (2022). Identifying Human Needs through Social Media: A study on Indian cities during COVID-19. Social NLP, NAACL 2022 . Available at Link
- [Non archival] Joseph R., Rai, S., Thakur P.S. & Khaliq A.M. (2022). Pandemic, People and Pattern of Needs: Emerging Trends in Indian Society during COVID-19. IC2S2 2022 . Abstract available at Link
- Khaliq, A M., Joseph, R. & Rai, S. (2021). #covid is war and #vaccine is weapon? COVID-19 metaphors in India. In the 18th Proceedings of International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), NLPAI. Link
- Rai, S., & Chakraverty, S. (2020). A Survey on Computational Metaphor Processing. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 53(2), 1-37. Link
- [Non archival] Gollapudi, U. M., Perla, M., Hitesh, S., Kumaran, R., Rai, S., & Das, A. Understanding User Vulnerability Towards Radicalization On Twitter. In 5th International Conference on Computational Social Science IC2S2, July 17-20, 2019, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Rai, S., Chakraverty, S., Tayal, D. K., Sharma, D., & Garg, A. (2019). Understanding metaphors using emotions. New Generation Computing, 37(1), 5-27. Link
- Rai, S., Garg, A., & Chakraverty, S. (2018, December). Understanding the role of visual features in Emoji Similarity. In International Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies (pp. 89-97). Springer, Singapore. Link
- Rai, S., Chakraverty, S., Tayal, D. K., & Kukreti, Y. (2018). A study on impact of context on metaphor detection. The Computer Journal, 61(11), 1667-1682. Link
- Rai S., Chakraverty S. (2017). Metaphor Detection Using Fuzzy Rough Sets. In: Polkowski L. et al. (eds) Rough Sets. IJCRS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10313. Springer, Cham. Link
- Rai, S., Chakraverty, S., & Tayal, D. K. (2016, June). Supervised metaphor detection using conditional random fields. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Metaphor in NLP (pp. 18-27), NAACL-HLT, San Diego. Link
- Jain, A., Tayal, D. K., & Rai, S. (2015). Shrinking digital gap through automatic generation of WordNet for Indian languages. AI & SOCIETY, 30(2), 215-222. Link