ACM Student Chapter Eminent Speaker Program
"Multimodal Information Processing :
Some recent NLP applications"

at Techno India University, West Bengal

Organized by Techno India University WB ACM Student Chapter

April 10, 2026 | 2:00 PM IST
Techno India University, WB
Dr. Sriparna Saha

Dr. Sriparna Saha

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India

400+ Publications
8,807 Citations
40 h5-index

Multimodal Information Processing: Some recent NLP applications

Synopsis

Multimodal information processing deals with the efficient usage of information available in different modalities such as audio, video, text, etc. for solving various task applications of real life. This talk will discuss how the multimodal information extracted from different modalities can help in improving different tasks of dialogue systems, summarization, hate speech detection, and complaint mining.

Multimodal information collected from audio tones, facial expressions, and texts is utilized for determining the type of utterance in a multitask setting where emotion recognition and dialogue act classification tasks are solved simultaneously. Multimodal information collected from videos, images, and texts can also be utilized for generating a summary.

Images and texts collected from Amazon reviews are utilized for developing some aspect-based multimodal complaint detection systems in a multi-task setting where sentiment and emotion information are utilized as auxiliary tasks. Memes collected from social media are utilized for the detection of hate speech in a multitask setting where sentiment, emotion, and sarcasm detection are utilized as auxiliary tasks. This talk will highlight these different applications of multimodal information processing in solving different NLP tasks.

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Speaker Biography

Dr. Sriparna Saha is currently serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India. She has authored or co-authored more than 400 papers. Her current research interests include machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, multi-objective optimization, and biomedical information extraction.

She has published in reputed forums like IEEE/ACM Transactions, ACL, AAAI, ACM Multimedia, ECML, COLING, SIGIR and many more. She won the best paper awards in ICONIP 2023, IEEE-INDICON 2015, ICACCI 2012, and among others. She is a senior member of IEEE, ACM and a fellow of IET, UK.

Notable Awards & Recognition
Google India Women in Engineering Award 2008
Pattern Recognition Letters Editor Award 2023
SERB Women in Excellence Award 2018
Fulbright-Nehru Academic Excellence Fellowship 2024
Humboldt Research Fellowship
Top 2% Scientists in AI & Image Processing (Stanford University)

She is currently serving as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, Expert Systems with Applications, Pattern Recognition Letters, PLOS ONE, and Machine Learning with Applications.

About the Program

The ACM Student Chapter Eminent Speaker Program (ESP) aims to provide students and faculty members with valuable exposure to emerging trends, research directions, and professional practices in the field of computing through interaction with eminent speakers. The event is expected to foster academic enrichment, inspire innovation, and strengthen the culture of research and professional excellence within the university.

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