Publications

Refereed Journal Publications

1.  Kapil Vuthoo, Khetarpaul, S., Subramaniam L.V. Datasets, Models and NLP Techniques for Legal Contracts–A Survey.  Expert Systems, Wiley, 43, no. 6: e70267 , 2026. Link 

2.  Tejansh Sachdeva, Mitaali Singhal, Khetarpaul, S.. Promoting Fairness in LLMs: Detection and Mitigation of Gender Bias. Knowledge and Information Systems, Springer, 68, 107 (2026), 2026. Code 

3.  Bhatia, M., and Khetarpaul, S. AI-enhanced bilingual banking assistant. Scientific Reports, Springer 15.1 (2025): 37526. Read, Code 

4.  Mishra, S., Khetarpaul, S. Identifying and recommending taxi hotspots in spatio-temporal space. GeoInformatica, Springer, Volume 29, pages 93–113 (2025), 2025. Link 

5.  Mishra, S., Khetarpaul, S. uR-tree: A spatial index structure for handling multiple point selection queries. Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, Volume 82, pages 8093–8111, 2023. Link 

6.  Khetarpaul, S. Mining location-based social networks to understand citizen check-in patterns. Computing, Springer, Volume 103, pages 2967–2993, 2021. Link 

7. Singh, R.K., Khetarpaul, S., et al. SHEG: Summarization and headline generation of news articles. Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, Volume 103, pages 2967–2993, 2021. Link 

8.  Khetarpaul, S., Gupta S.K., Subramaniam, L.V. Mining optimal meeting points for moving users. Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer,  Volume 8, article number 50, 2018. Link 

9. Khetarpaul, S., Gupta S.K., Subramaniam L.V. Spatiotemporal social (STS) data model: correlating social networks and spatiotemporal data. Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer, Volume 6, article number 81, 2016. Link 

Refereed Conference Publications

1. Swaroop, Anvitha; Prasad, Kritika; Khetarpaul, Sonia; SiteSense: Optimizing Restaurant Site Selection Using a Comprehensive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence: 13th International Conference on Big Data Analytics, BDA 2025, Springer. Link 

2.  Badoni, Aayush; Singh, Divyansh Anand; Vuthoo, Kapil; Singh, Shivansh; Khetarpaul, Sonia; Subramaniam, L Venkata; IndLaw-QA: Fine-Tuned LLMs with RAG for Indian Legal QA. 13th International Conference on Big Data Analytics, BDA 2025, Springer. Link 

3. Khetarpaul, Sonia; Sharan, P Y; Traffic-Aware Optimal Taxi Placement Using Graph Neural Network-Based Reinforcement Learning, 19th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems, ANTS 2025, IEEE. Read 

4. Srivastava, Saksham; Singh, Pooja; Khetarpaul, Sonia; Sharma, Unnat; Investigating Cultural Bias: A Comparative Study of Large Language Models, 11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, PReMI 2025. Link 

5. Khetarpaul, Sonia; Baazaoui-Zghal, Hajer; Gupta, Shreya; Bist, Vidushi; Bhatnagar, Devina; A Comparative Study of AI-Driven Ontology Enrichment for Environmental Sustainability. 13th IEEE International Conference on Big Data, IEEE BigData 2025. Link 

6. Vuthoo, Kapil; Khetarpaul, Sonia; Mishra, Saurabh; Efficient Clause Identification in Contracts Using NLP and Web-Sourced Data, International Conference on Data Analytics & Management, ICDAM 2025, Springer. Read 

7.  Khetarpaul, Sonia; Sharma, Dolly; Barakoti, Ananya; Sharma, Anika; Jain, Arjav; Deciphering Email Threads: A Comparative Study of Large Language Models. 2025 International Conference on Innovation in Computing and Engineering ICE 2025, IEEE.

8.  Pattnayak, Aryaman; Ramkumar, Adhityanarayan; Khetarpaul, Sonia; Vuthoo, Kapil; LawMate: Leveraging Domain-Specific LLMs for the Indian Legal Ecosystem. Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2025, Springer.

9. Sharma, Dolly; Khetarpaul, Sonia; Verma, Chinmayi; Jain, Prateek; Combining GraphSAGE and Label Propagation for Node Classification in Graphs. International Conference on Information Integration and Web Intelligence, iiWAS 2024 Springer.

10.  Khetarpaul, Sonia; Patil, Vedanta Vivek; Sura, Mitra Abhi; Sharma, Shrey; Singh, Pooja; CLOR-QA: Cross-Lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering Model with Dynamic Database Integration. International Conference on Information Integration and Web Intelligence, iiWAS 2024, Springer Nature.

11. Khetarpaul, Sonia; Chathley, Kanishk; Rai, Maitreyee; ElectionBot for Voters: Bridging the Gap Between Data and Decision-Making with LLM, 2024 IEEE Region 10 Symposium, TENSYMP 2024, IEEE.

12. Khetarpaul, Sonia; Sharma, Dolly; Sinha, Shreya; Nagpal, Aryan; Narang, Aarush; Analyzing the Efficacy of Large Language Models: A Comparative Study. International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2024, Springer Nature.

13.  Sonia Khetarpaul, Lakshay Jain, Kush Goyal, and P. Vishnu Tej. Lecture Video Summarization using Deep Learning. 16th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2024, Springer.

14.  Dolly Sharma, Sonia Khetarpaul, Shashwat Tiwari, Lakshman Aakash, and Aryan Gupta. Predicting Epidemic Outbreak using Climatic Factors. 16th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2024, Springer.

15.  Ila Ananta, Sonia Khetarpaul, and Dolly Sharma. Symptoms–Disease Detecting Conversation Agent using Knowledge Graphs. ACSW, ACM, 2024.

16. Sonia Khetarpaul, Dolly Sharma, Mishra Saurabh, Sud Shambhavi, and Pranav Soni. Location-Based Ideal Site Selection using Clustering. IEEE International Conference on Contemporary Computing and Communications, 2024.

17. Sonia Khetarpaul, Dolly Sharma, Somya Ranjan Padhi, and Saurabh Mishra. Enhancing Taxi Placement in Urban Areas Using Dominating Set Algorithm with Node and Edge Weights. International Conference of Information Integration and Web Intelligence iiWAS 2023, Springer, 2023.

18.  Saurabh Mishra and Sonia Khetarpaul. Predicting Taxi Hotspots in Dynamic Conditions using Graph Neural Networks. Australasian Database Conference, Springer, ADC 2022.

19. Sonia Khetarpaul, Dolly Sharma, Jackson I. Jose, and Mohith S. Real-time Detection and Visualization of Traffic Conditions by Mining Twitter Data. Australasian Database Conference, Springer, ADC 2022.

20.  Dolly Sharma, Sonia Khetarpaul, Ambreesh Parthsarthy, Mohit Kumar S., and Sparsh Agarwalla. Performance Prediction of Songs on Online Music Platforms. Australasian Database Conference, Springer, ADC 2022.

21. Mohith S., Rebhav Guha, Sonia Khetarpaul, and Samant Saurabh. Team Selection Using Statistical and Graphical Approaches for Cricket Fantasy Leagues. International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS 2022, Springer.

22. Saurabh Mishra and Sonia Khetarpaul. Optimal Placement of Taxis in a City Using Dominating Set Problem. Australasian Database Conference, ADC2021, Springer, 2021.

23. Sonia Khetarpaul, Dolly Sharma, Mayuri Gupta, and Vaibhav Gautam. A Real-Time Analysis of Offensive Texts to Prevent Cyberbullying. Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2021, Springer.

24. K. K. S. N. Reddy, C. Yashwanth, S. KVS, P. A. T. V. Sai and S. Khetarpaul, "Object and Currency Detection with Audio Feedback for Visually Impaired," 2020 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP). 

25. A. Gupta, N. Tandon and S. Khetarpaul, "Influence-Time-Proximity Driven Locations Recommendation Model: An Integrated Approach," TENCON 2019 - 2019 IEEE Region 10 Conference.

26. Sonia Khetarpaul, S. K. Gupta, and L. Venkata Subramaniam. Correlating Social Interconnections of Users with Spatio-Temporal Check-ins Behavior. International Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining (SSTDM), IEEE ICDM, 2016. Link 

27. Sonia Khetarpaul, S. K. Gupta, Shikhar Malhotra, and L. Venkata Subramaniam. Bus Arrival Time Prediction Using a Modified Amalgamation of Fuzzy Clustering and Neural Networks. Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2015, Springer. Link 

28. Khetarpaul, S., Gupta, S.K., Subramaniam, L.V. (2013). Analyzing Travel Patterns for Scheduling in a Dynamic Environment. In: Availability, Reliability, and Security in Information Systems and HCI. CD-ARES 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8127. Springer. Read 

29. Sonia Khetarpaul, S. K. Gupta, L. Venkata Subramaniam, and Ullas Nambiar. Mining GPS Traces to Recommend Common Meeting Points. IDEAS2012, ACM, 2012. Read 

30. Sonia Khetarpaul, Rashmi Chauhan, and S. K. Gupta. SR-Match: A Novel Schema Matcher based on Semantic Relationship. International Conference on Information Processing,  ICIP, Springer, 2011.

31. Sonia Khetarpaul, Rashmi Chauhan, S. K. Gupta, L. Venkata Subramaniam, and Ullas Nambiar. 2011. Mining GPS data to determine interesting locations. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web: in conjunction with WWW 2011 (IIWeb '11). Association for Computing Machinery. Read