Girish Koushik
Author directory2026
IndicQE-APE: A Consolidated Benchmark for Quality Estimation and Automatic Post-Editing over Indic Languages
Diptesh Kanojia | Archchana Sindhujan | Sourabh Deoghare | Daria Sokova | Shenbin Qian | Girish Koushik | Tharindu Ranasinghe | Constantin Orasan | Chrysoula Zerva | Ricardo Rei | Frederic Blain | André Martins | Marco Turchi | Matteo Negri | Anoop Kunchukuttan | Mitesh M. Khapra | Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation
Diptesh Kanojia | Archchana Sindhujan | Sourabh Deoghare | Daria Sokova | Shenbin Qian | Girish Koushik | Tharindu Ranasinghe | Constantin Orasan | Chrysoula Zerva | Ricardo Rei | Frederic Blain | André Martins | Marco Turchi | Matteo Negri | Anoop Kunchukuttan | Mitesh M. Khapra | Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation
Indic quality estimation (QE) and automatic post-editing (APE) data is spread across separate releases, so no single resource supports training and evaluation across tasks and language pairs on one footing. We consolidate the WMT 2020-2024 shared-task lineage with an extended English-Malayalam resource into IndicQE-APE: 126,754 instances over nine directional pairs, with up to four label types aligned on the same segment, a direct assessment, a human post-edit, word-level tags and an error explanation, and a test set stratified over four difficulty axes. We benchmark six prompted LLMs and three COMET metrics on segment-level QE, and three systems on APE. Two of the axes are defined partly on direct assessment and select a compressed slice of it. Segments whose segment-level and token-level signals disagree are ranked below equally scored segments of the same language. Four-shot prompting costs every model at or below 3.4B both correlation and output-format compliance. Unedited MT beats every APE system we run on three of the four pairs. The benchmark and code are released.
2025
Cyberbullying Detection via Aggression-Enhanced Prompting
Aisha Saeid | Anu Sabu | Girish Koushik | Ferrante Neri | Diptesh Kanojia
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - Natural Language Processing in the Generative AI Era
Aisha Saeid | Anu Sabu | Girish Koushik | Ferrante Neri | Diptesh Kanojia
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - Natural Language Processing in the Generative AI Era
Detecting cyberbullying on social media remains a critical challenge due to its subtle and varied expressions. This study investigates whether integrating aggression detection as an auxiliary task within a unified training framework can enhance the generalisation and performance of large language models (LLMs) in cyberbullying detection. Experiments are conducted on five aggression datasets and one cyberbullying dataset using instruction-tuned LLMs. We evaluated multiple strategies: zero-shot, few-shot, independent LoRA fine-tuning, and multi-task learning (MTL). Given the inconsistent results of MTL, we propose an enriched prompt pipeline approach in which aggression predictions are embedded into cyberbullying detection prompts to provide contextual augmentation. Preliminary results show that the enriched prompt pipeline consistently outperforms standard LoRA fine-tuning, indicating that aggression-informed context significantly boosts cyberbullying detection. This study highlights the potential of auxiliary tasks, such as aggression detection, to improve the generalisation of LLMs for safety-critical applications on social networks.