1. Invocable APIs derived from NL2SQL datasets for LLM Tool-Calling Evaluation, Benjamin Elder, Anupama Murthi, Jungkoo Kang, Ankita Rajaram Naik, Kiran Kate, Kinjal Basu, Danish Contractor, arxiv June 2025

2. New Tools are Needed for Tracking Adherence to AI Model Behavioral Use Clauses, Daniel McDuff, Tim Korjakow, Kevin Klyman, Danish Contractor , arxiv May 2025

3. Training with Pseudo-Code for Instruction Following, Prince Kumar, Rudra Murthy, Riyaz Bhat, Danish Contractor , arxiv May 2025

4. Spotlight Your Instructions: Instruction-following with Dynamic Attention Steering, Praveen Venkateswaran, Danish Contractor, arxiv May 2025

5. Reducing the Scope of Language Models, David Yunis, Siyu Huo, Chulaka Gunasekara, Danish Contractor, arxiv, Oct 2024 

6. Multi-Document Grounded Multi-Turn Synthetic Dialog Generation,Young-Suk Lee, Chulaka Gunasekara, Danish Contractor, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Radu Florian, arxiv Oct 2024

7. KCIF: Evaluating the Instruction-following Abilities of Language Models using Knowledge Tasks, Rudra Murthy, Prince Kumar, Praveen Venkateswaran, Danish Contractor, arxiv Oct 2024

Misc 

1. Prompting with Pseudo-Code Instructions, Mayank Mishra, Prince Kumar, Riyaz Bhat, Rudra Murthy V, Danish Contractor, Srikanth Tamilselvam, In proceedings of Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2023, Singapore, Dec 6-10, 2023 

2. Semi-Structured Object Sequence Encoders, Rudra Murthy V, Riyaz Bhat, Chulaka Gunasekara, Siva Sankalp Patel, Hui Wan, Tejas Indulal Dhamecha, Danish Contractor, Marina Danilevsky, In Findings of Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (Findings of EMNLP) 2023, Singapore, Dec 6-10, 2023

Responsible AI Licensing

1. IEEE P2840 Standard on Responsible AI Licensing, IEEE Standards Association 2025

2. Position: On the Standardization of Behavioral Use Clauses and Their Adoption for Responsible Licensing of AI, Daniel McDuff, Tim Korjakow, Scott Cambo, Jesse Josua Benjamin, Jenny Lee, Yacine Jernite, Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis, Aaron Gokaslan, Alek Tarkowski, Joseph Lindley, A. Feder Cooper, Danish Contractor, In proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2024, Vienna, Austria, July 21-27, 2024 

3. Behavioral-Use Licensing for Responsible AI , Danish Contractor, Daniel McDuff, Julia Haines, Jenny Lee, Christopher Hines, Brent Hecht, Nicholas Vincent and Hanlin Li, In proceedings of ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), 2022, Seoul, South Korea, June 21-24, 2022

Question Answering & Dialog Systems

1. MTRAG: A Multi-Turn Conversational Benchmark for Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems (To appear), Yannis Katsis, Sara Rosenthal, Kshitij Fadnis, Chulaka Gunasekara, Young-Suk Lee, Lucian Popa, Vraj Shah, Huaiyu Zhu, Danish Contractor, Marina Danilevsky, In Transactions of ACL (TACL), 2025

2. Joint Reasoning on Hybrid-knowledge sources for Task-Oriented Dialog, Mayank Mishra, Danish Contractor, Dinesh Raghu, In Findings of  European Chapter of ACL (Findings of EACL), 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 3-5, 2023 

3. Mix-and-Match: Scalable Dialog Response Retrieval using Gaussian Mixture Embeddings , Gaurav Pandey, Danish Contractor, Sachindra Joshi, In Findings of  Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (Findings of EMNLP) 2022, Abu Dhabi, UAE,  December 7-11, 2022

4. Variational Learning for Unsupervised Knowledge Grounded Dialogs, Mayank Mishra, Dhiraj Madan, Gaurav Pandey, Danish Contractor, In proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Vienna, Austria, July 23-29, 2022

5. Simulated Chats for Building Dialog Systems: Learning to Generate Conversations from Instructions, Biswesh Mohapatra, Gaurav Pandey, Danish Contractor, Sachindra Joshi, In Findings of  Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (Findings of EMNLP) 2021, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic,  November 7-11, 2021

6. Answering POI-recommendation Questions using Tourism Reviews , Danish Contractor, Krunal Shah, Aditi Partap, Mausam, Parag Singla.  In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM).  Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. November, 1-5,  2021. 

7. Joint Spatio-Textual Reasoning for Answering Tourism Questions, Danish Contractor, Shashank Goel, Mausam, Parag Singla, In Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW), Virtual, April 25-29, 2021  

8. Constrained BERT BiLSTM CRF For Understanding Multi-sentence Entity Seeking Questions  (Journal Paper) Danish Contractor, Barun Patra, Mausam, Parag Singla, Natural Language Engineering (NLE), 2020 

9. Multi-level Memory for Task Oriented Dialogs, Revanth Reddy, Danish Contractor, Dinesh Raghu, Sachindra Joshi, In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) 2019, Minneapolis, MN, USA, June 2-7, 2019, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)

10. Exemplar Encoder-Decoder for Neural Conversation Generation, Gaurav Pandey, Danish Contractor, Vineet Kumar, Sachindra Joshi, In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2018, Melbourne, Australia, July 15-20, 2018, Volume  1: Long Papers

11. Handling Noisy Queries in Cross Language FAQ retrieval, Danish Contractor, Govind Kothari, Tanveer A. Faruquie, L. Venkata Subramaniam, Sumit Negi, In Proceedings of Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Boston, MA, United States,Oct 9-11, 2010

12. Unsupervised Cleansing of Noisy Text, Danish Contractor, Tanveer. A. Faruquie, L. Venkata Subramaniam, In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Beijing, China, Aug 23-27, 2010

Short, Demo and Workshop Papers

13. Bootstrapping Dialog Models from Human to Human Conversation Logs (Demo Paper), Pankaj Dhoolia, Vineet Kumar, Danish Contractor, Sachindra Joshi, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 35, 18 , 16024-16025, (AAAI 2021)

14.  Agent Assist through Conversation Analysis (Demo Paper), Kshitij Fadnis, Nathanian Mills, Jatin Ganohtra, Haggai Roitman, Gaurav Pandey, Doren Cohen, Yosi Mass,  Shai Erera, Chulaka Gunasekara, Danish Contractor, Siva Sankalp Patel, Vera Liao, Sachindra Joshi, Luis A. Lastras, David Konopnicki, Proceedings of the 2020 EMNLP (Systems Demonstrations), pages 151–157, November 16-20, 2020 

15. Neural Conversational QA: Learning to Reason vs Exploiting Patterns (Short Paper), Nikhil Verma, Abhishek Sharma, Danish Contractor, Harshit Kumar, Sachindra Joshi, Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing  (EMNLP) November 16-20, 2020  

16. Understanding & Answering Complex Entity Seeking Questions (Workshop Paper), Danish Contractor, Barun Patra, Mausam, Parag Singla, Workshop on Reasoning for Complex QA (RCQA) at AAAI. Honolulu, HI, USA. February 2019. 

NLP for Education

1. Document Chunking and Learning Objective Generation for Instruction Design,  Khoi-Nguyen Tran, Jey Han Lau, Danish Contractor, Utkarsh Gupta, Bikram Sengupta, Christopher J. Butler, Mukesh K. Mohania, In proceedings of the 11th Education Data Mining (EDM) Conference, Buffalo, New York, USA, July 15-18, 2018

2. Document Segmentation for labeling with Academic Learning Objectives, Divyanshu Bhartiya, Danish Contractor, Sovan Biswas, Bikram Sengupta, Mukesh Mohania In proceedings of the 9th Education Data Mining (EDM) Conference. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, June 29 - July 2, 2016. 

3. Labeling Educational Content with Academic Learning Standards, Danish Contractor, Kashyap Popat, Sumit Negi, Shajith Ikbal, Bikram Sengupta, Mukesh Mohania, In proceedings of the SIAM International Conference on Data Moning (SDM), Vancouver, Canada, April 30 - May 2, 2015

4. Smarter Learning Content Management Using the Learning Content Hub, Danish Contractor, Sumit Negi, Kashyap Popat, Shajith Ikbal, Balunaini Prasad, Sandeep Vedula, Sreekanth Kakarparthy, Bikram Sengupta, Vijay Kumar , In IBM Journal of R&D, Volume 59, Issue 6, November-December 2015

5. Seamless Blended Learning Using the Cognitive Learning Companion, Juliet Mutahi, Oliver Bent, Andrew Kinai, Komminist Weldermariam, Bikram Sengupta, Danish Contractor,In IBM Journal of R&D, Volume 59, Issue 6, November-December 2015

Social Media Mining

1. Tracking Political Elections on Social Media : Applications and Experience, Danish Contractor, Bhupesh Chawda, Sameep Mehta, L. Venkata Subramaniam, Tanveer A. Faruquie, In proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug 25-31, 2015

2. A CRM system for Social Media: Challenges and Experiences, Jitendra Ajmera, Meena Nagarajan, Hyung-II Ahn, Ashish Verma, Danish Contractor, Stephen Dill, Matthew Denesuk, In proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13-17, 2013

3. Using Content and Interactions for discovering communities in Social Networks , Mrinmaya Sachan, Danish Contractor, Tanveer A. Faruquie, L. Venkata Subramaniam, In Proceedings of the Word Wide Web Conference (WWW), Lyon, France, April 16-20, 2012

Short Papers

4. Understanding Election Candidate Approval Ratings using Social Media , Danish Contractor, Tanveer A Faruquie In proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13-17, 2013

5. Content Analytics System for Social Customer Relationship Management  Meenakshi Nagarajan, Danish Contractor,Stephen Dill, Jitendra Ajmera, Hyung-il Ahn, Ashish Verma, Matthew Denesuk, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Blogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Boston, MA, United States, July 2013

6. Probabilistic model for discovering Topic based Communities in Social Networks  Mrinmaya Sachan, Danish Contractor, Tanveer A. Faruquie, L. Venkata Subramaniam, In Proceedings of 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Glasgow, Scotland, Oct 24-28, 2011

Summarization & Clustering

1. Entity Balanced Gaussian pLSA for Automated Comparison, Danish Contractor, Mausam, Parag Singla , In proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association  for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT). San Diego, CA, USA. June 12-17, 2016.

2. Using Argumentative Zones for the Extractive Summarization of Scientific Articles Danish Contractor, Yufan Guo, Anna Korhonen, In proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguitsics (COLING), Mumbai, India, Dec 8-15, 2012

3. Labeling Unlabeled Data using Cross-Language Guided Clustering , Sachindra Joshi, Danish Contractor, Sumit Negi, In Proceedings of 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Chiang Mai, Thailand, Nov 8-13, 2011

4. Auto-grouping emails for faster e-Discovery Sachindra Joshi, Danish Contractor, Kenney Ng, Prasad M Deshpande, Thomas Hampp-Bahnmueller, In Proceedings of International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Seattle,WA, United States, August 29-Sept 3, 2011

1. Vision Based Computer Control   US Patents 8482562, 8717363 

2.  Email Hierarchy Detection , US Patent 8898177 

3.  Email Near Duplicate Detection  US Patent 8788500 

4.  A system and method for document clustering using an inverted index, US Patent 10083230 

5.  Identification of Comprehension Burden in Multimedia Content,  US Patent 10438499 

6.  Student Specific Learning Graph, US Patent 10347151 

7. Composing Applications on a Mobile Device US Patent 9569284

8. Automated Knowledge Graph Creation  US Patent Application US20170193393A1

9. Non-Linear Multi-resolution Visualization of a Graph US Patent Application US20180053327 

10. Presenting Assessment Content to a User US Patent Application 20190171284

11. Unsupervised Generation of Knowledge Graphs US Patent Application 20190012405 

12. Non-linear Navigation of Videos US Patent Application 20190163332 

13. Audio-Visual Source Code Documentation US Patent Application 20190155600 

14. Cognitive Content Laboratory US Patent Application 20190073914 

15. Cognitive Content Mapping & Collating US Patent Application 20190311639 

16. Dynamically Reforming surfaces to deliver Physicality in Introductory Child Education US Patent 10395571

17. Cognitive Drawing Assistant US Patent Application 20190325623

18. Dynamically Updating Digital Visual Content via aggregated feedback

19. Conversational Agent Generation

20. Transparency via opt-in aggregation

21. Technology Applying a Dependency Graph to Generate an updated teaching plan based on unexpected events

22. Delivering Personalized Learning Material

23. Dialog System Workspaces Generation from Rule/Policy Documents

24. Dialog Shortcuts for Interactive Agents

25. Automated communication exchange programs for attended robotic process automation

26. Context based response generation

Published Disclosures

1. Contextual Recommendations for Dialog Workspace , Danish Contractor, Harshit Kumar, Vineet Kumar, Pankaj Dhoolia, Sachindra Joshi, In IP.com Publication (Oct 2020)

2. System and method for generating content specific action link Danish Contractor, Sumit Negi, Mukesh Mohania, Sriram Padhmanabhan In IP.com Publication (Dec 2013)

3.  System and Method for discovering inconsistencies during eDiscovery review Danish Contractor, Sachindra Joshi, Kenney Ng, Thomas Hampp-Bahnmueller In IP.com Publication (March 2012)

4.  System and Method for supporting dynamic transactions in Master Data Management (MDM) Danish Contractor, Hima P. Karanam, Mrinamaya Sachan, Tanveer A. Faruquie, L. Venkata Subramaniam, Soujanya Soni In IP.com Publication (Dec 2011)

5.  Method and System for task identification and task execution for natural language instruction agents,  Danish Contractor In IP.com Publication - IPCOM000175991D (Nov 2008)