PUBLICATIONS

MemeCLIP: Leveraging CLIP Representations for Multimodal Meme Classification

In the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(EMNLP).

Shah S.B, Shiwakoti S., Chaudhary M., Shah A., Wang H.,
NLP
Multimodal
Computational Social Science

Large Language Models (LLM) in Computational Social Science: Prospects, Current State, and Challenges

In the Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal

Thapa S., Shiwakoti S., Shah S.B., Adhikari S., Veeraman H., Nasim M., Naseem U.,
NLP
LLM
Computational Social Science

Analyzing the Dynamics of Climate Change Discourse on Twitter: A New Annotated Corpus and Multi-Aspect Classification

In the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING).

Shiwakoti S., Thapa S., Rauniyar K., Shah A., Bhandari A., Naseem U.
NLP
Computational Social Science

NEHATE: Large-Scale Annotated Data Shedding Light on Hate Speech in Nepali Local Election Discourse

In 2023 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence(ECAI) (pp. 2346-2353).

Thapa S.*, Rauniyar K.*, Shiwakoti S., Poudel S., Naseem U., Nasim M.,
NLP
Low Resource Language
Computational Social Science

Multi-Aspect Annotation and Analysis of Nepali Tweets on Anti-Establishment Election Discourse

In IEEE Access.

Rauniyar K., Poudel S., Shiwakoti S., Thapa S., Naseem U., Imran M.
NLP
Low Resource Language
Computational Social Science

GameTox: A Comprehensive Dataset and Analysis for Enhanced Toxicity Detection in Online Gaming Communities

In the 2025 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Short Papers.

Naseem U., Shiwakoti S., Shah S.B., Thapa S., Zhang Q.
NLP
Online Safety
Computational Social Science

Stance and Hate Event Detection in Tweets Related to Climate Activism - Shared Task at CASE 2024

In the 2024 Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE) @ ACL.

Thapa S., Rauniyar K., Jafri F.A., Shiwakoti S., Veeramani H., Jain R.
NLP
Online Safety
Computational Social Science

Agentic AI Framework for Low-Resource Essay Evaluation via Scoring, Explanation, and Debate

In the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) (pp. 6387–6394).

Thapa S., Rauniyar K., Shiwakoti S., Adhikari S., Rashid J., Kim J., Naseem U.
NLP
LLM
Low Resource Language

THYMES: A Framework for Detecting Suicidal Ideation from Social Media Posts Using Hyperbolic Learning

In the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) (pp. 6538–6546).

Thapa S., Salman M., Shah S.B., Shiwakoti S., Zhang Q., Hu L., Razzak I.
NLP
Healthcare
Computational Social Science

Multimodal Hate, Humor, and Stance Event Detection in Marginalized Sociopolitical Movements - Shared Task at CASE 2025

In the 2025 Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE) @ RANLP.

Thapa S., Shah S.B., Rauniyar K., Shiwakoti S., Adhikari S., Veeramani H.
NLP
Multimodal
Online Safety

BEAST: Leveraging Contrastive Learning and Unsupervised Sentence Embeddings for Improved Drug Abuse Detection

In the 2025 ACM Web Conference (WWW) Companion (pp. 1938–1945).

Shiwakoti S., Shah S.B., Wang W., Thapa S., Razzak I., Naseem U.
NLP
Healthcare
Online Safety

Addressing the Challenges of Mental Health Conversations with Large Language Models

In the 2025 ACM Web Conference (WWW) Companion (pp. 2597–2602).

Shiwakoti S., Shah S.B., Razzak I., Thapa S., Naseem U.
NLP
LLM
Healthcare

Entity-Aware Optimal Transport and Residual Attention for Multimodal Content Moderation

In the 2025 ACM Web Conference (WWW) Companion (pp. 2306–2313).

Shah S.B., Shiwakoti S., Bhuiyan T., Moni M.A., Thapa S., Naseem U.
NLP
Multimodal
Online Safety

Breaking Barriers: Exploring the Diagnostic Potential of Speech Narratives in Hindi for Alzheimer’s Disease

In Proceedings of the 2023 ACL 5th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop. (pp. 24–30).

Rauniyar K., Shiwakoti S., Poudel S., Thapa S., Naseem U., Nasim M.
NLP
Low Resource Language
Healthcare

Deep-Learning Methods for Vehicle Trajectory Prediction: A Survey

In 2023 International Conference on IoT Based Control Networks and Intelligent Systems (ICICNIS)

Shiwakoti S., Shahi S.B., Singh P.,
Computer Vision