Research

My research interests broadly lie in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Conversational AI. I am particularly interested in building empathetic dialogue agents for task-oriented systems. Recently, I am exploring the paradigms of step-by-step reasoning and in-context learning to achieve this goal. I have also been working on building tools for efficient analysis of sociolinguistic behaviors from social media.

Publications

• Social Convos: Capturing Agendas and Emotions on Social Media
  Ankita Bhaumik, Ning Sa, Gregorios Katsios, Tomek Strzalkowski
  LREC-COLING, 2024
• Uncovering Agendas: A Novel Dataset for Agenda Detection on Social Media
  Gregorios Katsios, Ning Sa, Ankita Bhaumik, Tomek Strzalkowski
  LREC-COLING, 2024
• TaskDiff: A Similarity Metric for Task-Oriented Conversations
  Ankita Bhaumik, Praveen Venkateswaran, Yara Rizk, Vatche Isahagian
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023
• Does Imageable Language Make Your Tweets More Persuasive?
  Andy Bernhardt, Tomek Strzalkowski, Ning Sa, Ankita Bhaumik, Gregorios A. Katsios
  Artificial Intelligence and Social Computing International Conference (AHFE), 2023
• Adapting Emotion Detection to Analyze Influence Campaigns on Social Media
  Ankita Bhaumik, Andy Bernhardt, Gregorios A. Katsios, Ning Sa, Tomek Strzalkowski
  Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis, ACL 2023
• Proving the Correctness of Multicopter Rotor Fault Detection and Identification Software
  Ankita Bhaumik, Airin Dutta, Fotis Kopsaftopoulos, Carlos A. Varela
  40th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), IEEE, 2021
  [Code]
• Extracting Business Compliant Finite State Models from i* Models
  Novarun Deb, Nabendu Chaki, Mandira Roy, Surochita Pal, Ankita Bhaumik
  Advanced Computing and Systems for Security, Volume 9, September 2019
  [Code]
• Design of an Intelligent Voice Controlled Home Automation System
  Sonali Sen, Shamik Chakrabarty, Raghav Toshniwal, Ankita Bhaumik
  International Journal of Computer Applications, July 2015

Experience

• May 2024 - Present: Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon, Seattle, WA
• July 2021 - Present: Research Assistant at Language and Cognition Artificial Intelligence Lab
• Summer 2022: Research Extern at IBM Research , Cambridge, MA
• Spring 2021: Teaching Assistant for Principles of Software (CSCI 2600)