Publications

2025
Type Driven Prompt Programming

Abhijit Paul

Accepted in TyDe-ICFP 2025 (A*), arXiv:2508.12475

LLM is being used as software components and software expects output that is syntactically and sematically correct. How can we enforce rich semantic and syntactic constraints on LLM output? In this work, we explore this avenue.

2025
State-of-the-Art Translation of Text-to-Gloss using mBART : A case study of Bangla

Sharif Md. Abdullah, Abhijit Paul, Shebuti Rayana†, Ahmedul Kabir, , Zarif Masud

Currently In-Review in ACL Asia Pacific '26, arXiv:2508.15711

We prpose a state-of-the-art translation methodology for text to gloss translation - a fundamental task in text-to-sign translation pipeline.

2025
Temporal Analysis of the Gap Between Media Narratives and Public Sentiment During Bangladesh’s July Revolution

Abhijit PaulTanvir Hasan Abir, Siam, Shebuti Rayana†, Ahmedul Kabir, Zarif Masud

Accepted in July Conference 2025

We analyzed over 100K reddit posts and 30K news from 5 mainstream Bangladeshi newspaper to identify the divergence in temporal sentiment in news focus and public sentiment during July revolution.

2024
Towards Bridging Formal Methods and Human Interpretability: Evaluating Human Comprehension of Labeled Transition System Designs

Abhijit Paul, Proma Chowdhury, Kazi Sakib

Rejected at ICSE Design Workshop '25, arXiv:2506.09759

Explores cognitive dimensions of formal design using temporal logic, emphasizing lightweight methods for practical application.

2024
Where Journalism Silenced Voices: Exploring Discrimination in the Representation of Indigenous Communities in Bangladesh

Abhijit Paul, Adity Khisa, Sharif Md. Abdullah, Zarif Masud, Dr. Ahmedul Kabir, Dr. Shebuti Rayana

Major Revision in Progress, CSCW '25, arXiv:2506.09771

Analyzes media representation biases against indigenous minorities using machine learning and sociological frameworks.

2023
Bengali Document Layout Analysis -- A YOLOV8 Based Ensembling Approach

Nazmus Sakib Ahmed, Saad Sakib Noor, Ashraful Islam Shanto Sikder, Abhijit Paul

Published in: arXiv:2309.00848

Experimentation results on Bangla Document Layout Analysis on the BadLaD dataset in DLSprint’23 where we placed 2nd.

2023
Stemming: Evolution and Current State with Focus on Bangla

Abhijit Paul, Mashiat Amin Farin, Sharif Md. Abdullah, Zarif Masud, Dr. Ahmedul Kabir, Dr. Shebuti Rayana

Target: NAACL (A*), Rejected due to irrelevane with conference, arXiv:2508.15711

Comprehensive review of stemming methods with a focus on Bangla, highlighting linguistic challenges and future directions.

2023
Exploring Diverse Coping Mechanisms in 2023: A Comprehensive Survey Across Backgrounds and Cultures

Abhijit Paul, Rony Majumder

Arxiv

Collected a dataset of coping mechanisms across culture for Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha age group. The findings provided interesting insight on the types of coping mechanism.