Publications

Book Chapter

• Koustav Rudra, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh ,"Understanding the Usage of Idioms in Twitter Social Network", Pattern Recognition and Big Data, World Scientific, pp. 767--788, February 2017 (Editors: Amita Pal, Sankar K Pal) (ISBN: 978-981-3144-54-5)

Journals

•  Jurek Leonhardt, Koustav Rudra, Avishek Anand. "Extractive Explanations for Interpretable Text Ranking". ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.

• Koustav Rudra , Gerhard Backfried , Miroslav Shaltev , Claudia Niederee , Erick Elejalde. "My EU = Your EU? Differences in the Perception of European Issues Across Geographic Regions". IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.

• Koustav Rudra, Pawan Goyal, Niloy Ganguly, Muhammad Imran, Prasenjit Mitra. “Summarizing Situational Tweets in Crisis Scenarios: An Extractive-Abstractive Approach”. IEEE Trans. Computational Social Systems 6(5): 981-993 (2019).

• Koustav Rudra, Ashish Sharma, Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, Niloy Ganguly. "Identifying and Analyzing different Aspects of English-Hindi Code-Switching in Twitter". ACM Trans. on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (ACM TALLIP), 18(3): 29:1-29:28, (2019).

• Koustav Rudra, Ashish Sharma, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh. 2018. “Characterizing and Countering Communal Microblogs during Disaster Events”. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (IEEE TCSS), 5, no. 2 (2018): 403-417.

• Koustav Rudra, Niloy Ganguly, Pawan Goyal, Saptarshi Ghosh, "Extracting and Summarizing Situational Information from the Twitter Social Media during Disasters", ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB) 12, no. 3 (2018): 17.

• Koustav Rudra, Ashish Sharma, Niloy Ganguly, Muhammad Imran, "Classifying and Summarizing Information from Microblogs during Epidemics", Special Issue on "Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness" in the journal Information Systems Frontiers (Springer), 20, 2018: 933–948.

Conferences

• Thi Huyen Nguyen and Koustav Rudra. Learning Faithful Attention for Interpretable Classification of Crisis-Related Microblogs under Constrained Human Budget. The ACM Web Conference (Web4Good special track) 2023. 

• Thi Huyen Nguyen and Koustav Rudra. L3S at the TREC 2022 CrisisFACTS Track.

• Thi Huyen Nguyen and Koustav Rudra. Rationale Aware Contrastive Learning Based Approach to Classify and Summarize Crisis-Related Microblogs. In CIKM 2022

• Abhijit Anand, Jurek Leonhardt, Koustav Rudra and Avishek Anand. Supervised Contrastive Learning Approach for Contextual Ranking. In ICTIR 2022.

• Jurek Leonhardt, Koustav Rudra, Megha Khosla, Abhijit Anand and Avishek Anand. Efficient Neural Ranking using Forward Indexes. The ACM Web Conference 2022. Online Lyon France. 25-29 April 2022.

• Thi Huyen Nguyen and Koustav Rudra. Towards an Interpretable Approach to Classify and Summarize Crisis Events from Microblogs. The ACM Web Conference (Web4Good special track) 2022. Online Lyon France. 25-29 April 2022.

• Rajdeep Mukherjee, Uppada Vishnu, Chandana Peruri, Sourangshu Bhattacharya, Koustav Rudra, Niloy Ganguly, Pawan Goyal. MTLTS: A Multi-Task Framework To Obtain Trustworthy Summaries From Crisis-Related Microblogs. The 15th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2022). Phoenix, Arizona, February 21-25, 2022.

• Paheli Bhattacharya, Soham Poddar, Koustav Rudra, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Saptarshi Ghosh. “Incorporating Domain Knowledge for Extractive Summarization of Legal Case Documents”. ICAIL 2021 - The 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law [Best Student Paper Award]

• Zijian Zhang, Koustav Rudra, Avishek Anand. “Explain and Predict, and then Predict again”. The 14th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2021), Jerusalem, Israel, March 8-12, 2021.

• Koustav Rudra, Avishek Anand. “Distant Supervision in BERT-based Adhoc Document Retrieval”. The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020). ACM, pp. 2197-2200, Virtual Event, Ireland, October 19–23, 2020.

• Soumyadeep Roy, Koustav Rudra, Nikhil Agrawal, Shamik Sural and Niloy Ganguly. “Towards an Aspect-based Ranking Model for Clinical Trial Search”. The 8th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks (CSoNet 2019). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 11917, Springer, Cham, pp. 209-222.

• Ashish Sharma, Koustav Rudra and Niloy Ganguly. “Going Beyond Content Richness: Verified Information Aware Summarization of Crisis-Related Microblogs”. The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2019). ACM, pp. 921-930. Beijing, China, 03-07 th November, 2019.

• Shalmoli Ghosh, Prajwal Singhania, Siddharth Singh, Koustav Rudra, and Saptarshi Ghosh. 2019. “Stance Detection in Web and Social Media: A Comparative Study”. The 10th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF), September 09-12, 2019, Switzerland.

• Shalmoli Ghosh, Koustav Rudra, Saptarshi Ghosh, Niloy Ganguly, Sanjay Podder, Naveen Balani, and Neville Dubash. 2019. “Identifying Multi-dimensional Information from Microblogs During Epidemics”. The ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data 2019, Jan3-5, 2019, Kolkata.

• Koustav Rudra, Pawan Goyal, Niloy Ganguly, Prasenjit Mitra, Muhammad Imran, paper on "Identifying Sub-events and Summarizing Disaster-Related Information from Microblogs", The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, July 8–12, 2018

• Koustav Rudra, Ashish Sharma, Niloy Ganguly, Muhammad Imran, paper on "Classifying Information from Microblogs during Epidemics", 7th ACM Digital Health Conference (DH 2017), London, July 2-5, 2017 (short paper)

• Koustav Rudra, Shruti Rijhwani, Rafiya Begum, Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, Niloy Ganguly, paper on "Understanding Language Preference for Expression of Opinion and Sentiment: What do Hindi-English Speakers do on Twitter?", Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2016), Austin, Texas, USA, November 1–5, 2016

• Rafiya Begum, Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, Koustav Rudra, Niloy Ganguly, paper on "Functions of Code-Switching in Tweets: An Annotation Scheme and Some Initial Experiments", The 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016), Slovenia, 23-28 May, 2016

• Koustav Rudra, Siddhartha Banerjee, Niloy Ganguly, Pawan Goyal, Muhammad Imran, Prasenjit Mitra, paper on "Summarizing Situational Tweets in Crisis Scenario", 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2016), Halifax, Canada, July 10-13, 2016

• Koustav Rudra, Subham Ghosh, Niloy Ganguly, Pawan Goyal, Saptarshi Ghosh, paper on "Extracting Situational Information from Microblogs during Disaster Events: a Classification-Summarization Approach", 23rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015), Melbourne, October 19-23, 2015

• Koustav Rudra, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Manav Sethi, Shreyasi Das, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh, paper on "#FewThingsAboutIdioms: Understanding Idioms and its Users in the Twitter Online Social Network", Pacific Asia Knowledge Data Discovery (PAKDD 2015), Vietnam, May 19-22, 2015

• Manjira Sinha, Koustav Rudra, Tirthankar Dasgupta, Anupam Basu, paper on "How Word Order Affects Sentence Comprehension in Bangla: A Computational Approach to Simple Sentence", Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration (MIKE 2013), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8284, 2013, pp 769-779

Workshops

• Koustav Rudra, Danny Tran, Miroslav Shaltev. “EUDETECTOR: Leveraging Language Model to Identify EU-Related News”. 1st Workshop on News Recommendation and Intelligence, The Web Conference 2021. Check the system [http://eudetector.l3s.uni-hannover.de/]

• L. A. DeChurch, K. Rudra, & N. S. Contractor. "Using Interaction Data To Predict Interpersonal Relationships In Space Multi-team Systems". 2019 NASA Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop Annual Conference. Galveston, Texas, USA January 22-25, 2019.

• Prabhat Agarwal, Ashish Sharma, Jeenu Grover, Mayank Sikka, Koustav Rudra, Monojit Choudhury, paper on "I may talk in English but gaali toh Hindi mein hi denge : A study of English-Hindi Code-Switching and Swearing Pattern on Social Networks", Social Networking Workshop, COMSNETS 2017, Bangalore, India, January 5-9

• Koustav Rudra, Siddhartha Banerjee, Niloy Ganguly, Pawan Goyal, Muhammad Imran, Prasenjit Mitra, paper on "Summarizing Situational and Topical Information during Crises", The Fourth International Workshop on Social Web for Disaster Management, 2016 (SWDM 2016 --- colocated with CIKM 2016)

• Anirban Sen, Koustav Rudra, Saptarshi Ghosh ,"Extracting Situational Awareness from Microblogs during Disaster Events", Social Networking Workshop, COMSNETS 2015, Bangalore, India, January 6-10

Demos

• Thi Huyen Nguyen, Miroslav Shaltev, Koustav Rudra. CrisICSum: Interpretable Classification and Summarization Platform for Crisis Events from Microblogs. ACM CIKM 2022

• Zijian Zhang, Koustav Rudra, Avishek Anand. FaxPlainAC: A Fact-checking tool based on eXPLAINable models with humAn Correction in the loop. ACM CIKM 2021