First Workshop on Bangla Language Processing

Best Paper Awards

Regular Papers

1. BSpell: A CNN-Blended BERT Based Bangla Spell Checker
Chowdhury Rafeed Rahman, MD.Hasibur Rahman, Samiha Zakir, Mohammad Rafsan, Mohammed Eunus Ali

2. Low-Resource Text Style Transfer for Bangla: Data & Models
Sourabrata Mukherjee, Akanksha Bansal, Pritha Majumdar, Atul Kr Ojha, Ondrej Dusek

3. Offensive Language Identification in Transliterated and Code-Mixed Bangla
Md Nishat Raihan, Umma Hani Tanmoy, Anika Binte Islam, Kai North, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Marcos Zampieri

Shared Tasks

1. the_linguists at BLP-2023 Task 1: A Novel Informal Bangla Fasttext Embedding for Violence Inciting Text Detection
Md. Tariquzzaman, Md Wasif Kader, Audwit Nafi Anam, Naimul Haque, Mohsinul Kabir, Hasan Mahmud, Md Kamrul Hasan

2. EmptyMind at BLP-2023 Task 1: A Transformer-based Hierarchical-BERT Model for Bangla Violence-Inciting Text Detection
Udoy Das, Karnis Fatema, Md Ayon Mia, Mahshar Yahan, Md Sajidul Mowla, MD Fayez Ullah, Arpita Sarker, Hasan Murad

3. Aambela at BLP-2023 Task 2: Enhancing BanglaBERT Performance for Bangla Sentiment Analysis Task with In Task Pretraining and Adversarial Weight Perturbation
Md Fahim

4. LowResourceNLU at BLP-2023 Task 1 & 2: Enhancing Sentiment Classification and Violence Incitement Detection in Bangla Through Aggregated Language Models
Hariram Veeramani, Surendrabikram Thapa, Usman Naseem

All Regular Workshop Papers

1. BanglaCHQ-Summ: An Abstractive Summarization Dataset for Medical Queries in Bangla Conversational Speech
Alvi Aveen Khan, Fida Kamal, Mohammad Abrar Chowdhury, Tasnim Ahmed, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Sabbir Ahmed

2. Low-Resource Text Style Transfer for Bangla: Data & Models
Sourabrata Mukherjee, Akanksha Bansal, Pritha Majumdar, Atul Kr Ojha, Ondrej Dusek

3. Offensive Language Identification in Transliterated and Code-Mixed Bangla
Md Nishat Raihan, Umma Hani Tanmoy, Anika Binte Islam, Kai North, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Marcos Zampieri

4. Intent Detection and Slot Filling for Home Assistants: Dataset and Analysis for Bangla and Sylheti
Fardin Ahsan Sakib, A H M Rezaul Karim, Saadat Hasan Khan, Md Mushfiqur Rahman

5. Pseudo-Labeling for Domain-Agnostic Bangla Automatic Speech Recognition
Rabindra Nath Nandi, Mehadi Hasan Menon, Tareq Al Muntasir, Sagor Sarker, Quazi Sarwar Muhtaseem, Md. Tariqul Islam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Firoj Alam

6. Contextual Bangla Neural Stemmer: Finding Contextualized Root Word Representations for Bangla Words
Md Fahim, Amin Ahsan Ali, M Ashraful Amin, AKMMAHBUBUR RAHMAN

7. Vio-Lens: A Novel Dataset of Annotated Social Network Posts Leading to Different Forms of Communal Violence and its Evaluation
Sourav Saha, Jahedul Alam Junaed, Maryam Saleki, Arnab Sen Sharma, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Mohamed Rahouti, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nabeel Mohammed, Mohammad Ruhul Amin

8. Assessing Political Inclination of Bangla Language Models
Surendrabikram Thapa, Ashwarya Maratha, Khan Md Hasib, Mehwish Nasim, Usman Naseem

9. BSpell: A CNN-Blended BERT Based Bangla Spell Checker
Chowdhury Rafeed Rahman, MD.Hasibur Rahman, Samiha Zakir, Mohammad Rafsan, Mohammed Eunus Ali

10. Crosslingual Retrieval Augmented In-context Learning for Bangla
Xiaoqian Li, Ercong Nie, Sheng Liang

11. SynthNID: Synthetic Data to Improve End-to-end Bangla Document Key Information Extraction
Syed Mostofa Monsur, Shariar Kabir, Sakib Chowdhury

12. BEmoLexBERT: A Hybrid Model for Multilabel Textual Emotion Classification in Bangla by Combining Transformers with Lexicon Features
Ahasan Kabir, Animesh Chandra Roy, Zaima Sartaj Taheri

13. BaTEClaCor: A Novel Dataset for Bangla Text Error Classification and Correction
Nabilah Tabassum Oshin, Syed Mohaiminul Hoque, Md Fahim, Amin Ahsan Ali, M Ashraful Amin, AKMMAHBUBUR RAHMAN

14. Advancing Bangla Punctuation Restoration by a Monolingual Transformer-Based Method and a Large-Scale Corpus
Mehedi Hasan Bijoy, Mir Fatema Afroz Faria, Mahbub E Sobhani, Tanzid Ferdoush, Swakkhar Shatabda

15. Investigating the Effectiveness of Graph-based Algorithm for Bangla Text Classification
Farhan Noor Dehan, Md Fahim, Amin Ahsan Ali, M Ashraful Amin, AKMMAHBUBUR RAHMAN

16. Pipeline Enabling Zero-shot Classification for Bangla Handwritten Grapheme
Linsheng Guo, Md Habibur Rahman Sifat, Tashin Ahmed

Shared Task 1: Violence Inciting Text Detection

1. BLP-2023 Task 1: Violence Inciting Text Detection (VITD) (Task Report)
Sourav Saha, Jahedul Alam Junaed, Maryam Saleki, Mohamed Rahouti, Nabeel Mohammed, Mohammad Ruhul Amin

2. UFAL-ULD at BLP-2023 Task 1: Violence Detection in Bangla Text
Sourabrata Mukherjee, Atul Kr Ojha, Ondrej Dusek

3. Semantics Squad at BLP-2023 Task 1: Violence Inciting Bangla Text Detection with Fine-Tuned Transformer-Based Models
Krishno Dey, Prerona Tarannum, Md. Arid Hasan, Francis Palma

4. Team CentreBack at BLP-2023 Task 1: Analyzing performance of different machine-learning based methods for detecting violence-inciting texts in Bangla
Refaat Mohammad Alamgir, Amira Haque

5. SUST_Black Box at BLP-2023 Task 1: Detecting Communal Violence in Texts: An Exploration of MLM and Weighted Ensemble Techniques
Hrithik Majumdar Shibu, Shrestha Datta, Zhalok Rahman, Shahrab Khan Sami, MD. SUMON MIAH, Raisa Fairooz, Md Adith Mollah

6. Team Error Point at BLP-2023 Task 1: A Comprehensive Approach for Violence Inciting Text Detection using Deep Learning and Traditional Machine Learning Algorithm
Rajesh Kumar Das, Jannatul Maowa, Moshfiqur Rahman Ajmain, Kabid Yeiad, Mirajul Islam, Sharun Akter Khushbu

7. nlpBDpatriots at BLP-2023 Task 1: Two-Step Classification for Violence Inciting Text Detection in Bangla - Leveraging Back-Translation and Multilinguality
Md Nishat Raihan, Dhiman Goswami, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Marcos Zampieri

8. NLP_CUET at BLP-2023 Task 1: Fine-grained Categorization of Violence Inciting Text using Transformer-based Approach
Jawad Hossain, Hasan Mesbaul Ali Taher, Avishek Das, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque

9. the_linguists at BLP-2023 Task 1: A Novel Informal Bangla Fasttext Embedding for Violence Inciting Text Detection
Md. Tariquzzaman, Md Wasif Kader, Audwit Nafi Anam, Naimul Haque, Mohsinul Kabir, Hasan Mahmud, Md Kamrul Hasan

10. EmptyMind at BLP-2023 Task 1: A Transformer-based Hierarchical-BERT Model for Bangla Violence-Inciting Text Detection
Udoy Das, Karnis Fatema, Md Ayon Mia, Mahshar Yahan, Md Sajidul Mowla, MD Fayez Ullah, Arpita Sarker, Hasan Murad

11. VacLM at BLP-2023 Task 1: Leveraging BERT models for Violence detection in Bangla
Shilpa Chatterjee, P J Leo Evenss, Pramit Bhattacharyya

12. Aambela at BLP-2023 Task 1: Focus on [UNK] tokens: Analyzing Violence Inciting Bangla Text with Adding Dataset Specific New Word Tokens
Md Fahim

13. Mavericks at BLP-2023 Task 1: Ensemble-based Approach Using Language Models for Violence Inciting Text Detection
Saurabh Page, Sudeep Mangalvedhekar, Kshitij Deshpande, Tanmay Chavan, Sheetal S. Sonawane

14. LowResourceNLU at BLP-2023 Task 1 & 2: Enhancing Sentiment Classification and Violence Incitement Detection in Bangla Through Aggregated Language Models
Hariram Veeramani, Surendrabikram Thapa, Usman Naseem

15. BanglaNLP at BLP-2023 Task 1: Benchmarking different Transformer Models for Violence Inciting Text Detection in Bangla
Saumajit Saha, Albert Aristotle Nanda

16. Team_Syrax at BLP-2023 Task 1: Data Augmentation and Ensemble Based Approach for Violence Inciting Text Detection in Bangla
Omar Faruqe Riyad, Trina Chakraborty, Abhishek Dey

17. Score_IsAll_You_Need at BLP-2023 Task 1: A Hierarchical Classification Approach to Detect Violence Inciting Text using Transformers
Kawsar Ahmed, Md Osama, Md. Sirajul Islam, Md Taosiful Islam, Avishek Das, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque

Shared Task 2: Sentiment Analysis

1. BLP-2023 Task 2: Sentiment Analysis (Task Report)
Md. Arid Hasan, Firoj Alam, Anika Anjum, Shudipta Das, Afiyat Anjum

2. Embeddings at BLP-2023 Task 2: Optimizing Fine-Tuned Transformers with Cost-Sensitive Learning for Multiclass Sentiment Analysis
S.M Towhidul Islam Tonmoy

3. M1437 at BLP-2023 Task 2: Harnessing Bangla Text for Sentiment Analysis: A Transformer-based Approach
MAJIDUR RAHMAN, Ozlem Uzuner

4. UFAL-ULD at BLP-2023 Task 2 Sentiment Classification in Bangla Text
Sourabrata Mukherjee, Atul Kr Ojha, Ondrej Dusek

5. Aambela at BLP-2023 Task 2: Enhancing BanglaBERT Performance for Bangla Sentiment Analysis Task with In Task Pretraining and Adversarial Weight Perturbation
Md Fahim

6. nlpBDpatriots at BLP-2023 Task 2: A Transfer Learning Approach towards Bangla Sentiment Analysis
Dhiman Goswami, Md Nishat Raihan, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Marcos Zampieri

7. EmptyMind at BLP-2023 Task 2: Sentiment Analysis of Bangla Social Media Posts using Transformer-Based Models
Karnis Fatema, Udoy Das, Md Ayon Mia, Md Sajidul Mowla, Mahshar Yahan, MD Fayez Ullah, Arpita Sarker, Hasan Murad

8. Z-Index at BLP-2023 Task 2: A Comparative Study on Sentiment Analysis
Prerona Tarannum, Md. Arid Hasan, Krishno Dey

9. Team Error Point at BLP-2023 Task 2: A Comparative Exploration of Hybrid Deep Learning and Machine Learning Approach for Advanced Sentiment Analysis Techniques.
Rajesh Kumar Das, Kabid Yeiad, Moshfiqur Rahman Ajmain, Jannatul Maowa, Mirajul Islam, Sharun Akter Khushbu

10. Ushoshi2023 at BLP-2023 Task 2: A Comparison of Traditional to Advanced Linguistic Models to Analyze Sentiment in Bangla Texts
Sharun Akter Khushbu, Nasheen Nur, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Nashtarin Nur

11. Semantics Squad at BLP-2023 Task 2: Sentiment Analysis of Bangla Text with Fine Tuned Transformer Based Models
Krishno Dey, Md. Arid Hasan, Prerona Tarannum, Francis Palma

12. BanglaNLP at BLP-2023 Task 2: Benchmarking different Transformer Models for Sentiment Analysis of Bangla Social Media Posts
Saumajit Saha, Albert Aristotle Nanda

13. RSM-NLP at BLP-2023 Task 2: Bangla Sentiment Analysis using Weighted and Majority Voted Fine-Tuned Transformers
Pratinav Seth, Rashi Goel, Komal Mathur, SWETHA VEMULAPALLI

14. Knowdee at BLP-2023 Task 2: Improving Bangla Sentiment Analysis Using Ensembled Models with Pseudo-Labeling
Xiaoyi Liu, Mao Teng, SHuangtao Yang, Bo Fu

15. LowResource at BLP-2023 Task 2: Leveraging BanglaBert for Low Resource Sentiment Analysis of Bangla Language
Aunabil Chakma, Masum Hasan