Research at our Lab

Focused on NLP for social good, our lab innovates in language modeling and socially aware methods. We are engaged in cutting-edge research across several key areas. Below is an overview of our primary research verticals:

Cyber Informatics

Designing models to detect and mitigate cybercrimes on online social media, including hate speech, abusive content, fake news, propaganda, rumors, and misinformation.

Mining Online Health Information

Our research extends to classifying online health mentions and mental health discussions, leveraging AI for better health informatics.

Online Opinion and Sarcasm Mining

We analyze sentiments, irony, and sarcasm in online content, improving the understanding of user opinions and emotions.

Code-mixed and Low Resource Language Processing

We address NLP challenges in code-mixed and low-resource languages, focusing on fairness and privacy alongside linguistic accessibility.

Multimodality

Our multimodal research integrates text and vision across various tasks, including opinion mining, emotion analysis, and visual question answering, aiming to enhance understanding and interaction in various applications.