Aparna Garimella

Aparna is a Research Scientist at Adobe Big Data Experience Lab, Bangalore, India. Her research interests comprise of natural language processing, computational social science and applied machine learning. Aparna completed her PhD in computer science from University of Michigan in 2019. Her thesis was on “Demographic-Aware Natural Language Processing”. Prior to this, she completed her B. Tech. in computer science and engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2014.

Content Intelligence Natural Language Processing

Publications

July 7, 2026 ACL 2026 Findings

MARCH: Evaluating the Intersection of Ambiguity Interpretation and Multi-hop Inference

Jeonghyun Park, Ingeol Baek, David Seunghyun Yoon, Haeun Jang, Aparna Garimella, Akriti Jain, Nedim Lipka, Hwanhee Lee

July 2, 2026 Association for Computational Linguistics Findings (ACL 2026)

An Answer is just the Start: Related Insight Generation for Open-Ended Document-Grounded QA

Saransh Sharma, Aparna Garimella, Koyel Mukherjee, Sharma

July 2, 2026 Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)

DECISIVE: Guiding User Decisions with Optimal Preference Elicitation from Unstructured Documents

Akriti Jain, Aparna Garimella

December 7, 2025 Women in Machine Learning Workshop, 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

RADAR: A Reasoning-Guided Attribution Framework for Explainable Visual Data Analysis

Anku Rani, Aparna Garimella, Apoorv Saxena, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, Paul Liang

November 12, 2024 The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2024

Presentations are not always linear! GNN meets LLM for Text Document-to-Presentation Transformation with Attribution

Himanshu Maheshwari, Sambaran Bandyopadhyay, Aparna Garimella, Anandhavelu Natarajan

May 25, 2024 LREC-COLING 2024

DocScript: New Task, Dataset, and Models for Document-level Script Event Prediction

Puneet Mathur, Vlad Morariu, Aparna Garimella, Franck Dernoncourt, Jiuxiang Gu, Ramit Sawhney, Preslav Nakov, Dinesh Manocha, Rajiv Jain

March 17, 2024 The 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) 2024

Presentations by the Humans and For the Humans: Harnessing LLMs for Generating Persona-Aware Slides from Documents

Ishani Mondal, Shwetha Somasundaram, Anandhavelu Natarajan, Aparna Garimella, Sambaran Bandyopadhyay, Jordan Boyd-Graber

December 1, 2023 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

What to Read in a Contract? Party-Specific Summarization of Legal Obligations, Entitlements, and Prohibitions

Abhilasha Sancheti, Aparna Garimella, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, Rachel Rudinger

May 2, 2023 Findings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

A Neural CRF-based Hierarchical Approach for Linear Text Segmentation

Inderjeet Nair, Aparna Garimella, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, Natwar Modani, Niyati Chhaya, Srikrishna Karanam, Sumit Shekhar

December 7, 2022 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

Agent-specific Deontic Modality Detection in Legal Language

Abhilasha Sancheti, Aparna Garimella, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, Rachel Rudinger

November 21, 2022 Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP 2022)

Demographic-Aware Language Model Fine-tuning as a Bias Mitigation Technique

Aparna Garimella, Akhash Amarnath, Rada Mihalcea

November 7, 2021 Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

AUTOSUMM: Automatic Model Creation for Text Summarization

Sharmila Reddy Nangi, Atharv Tyagi, Jay Mundra, Sagnik Mukherjee, Raj Snehal, Niyati Chhaya, Aparna Garimella

November 7, 2021 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

ClauseRec: A Clause Recommendation Framework for AI-aided Contract Authoring

Vinay Aggarwal, Aparna Garimella, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, Anandhavelu Natarajan, Rajiv Jain

August 2, 2021 Findings of the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021)

Domain-Aware Dependency Parsing for Questions

Aparna Garimella, Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li

He is very intelligent, she is very beautiful? On Mitigating Social Biases in Language Modelling and Generation

Aparna Garimella, Akhash Amarnath, Kiran Kumar, Akash Pramod Yalla, Anandhavelu Natarajan, Niyati Chhaya, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

April 19, 2021 EACL 2021

DRAG: Director-Generator Language Modelling Framework for Non-Parallel Author Stylized Rewriting

Hrituraj Singh, Gaurav Verma, Aparna Garimella, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

April 19, 2021 EACL 2021

EmpathBERT: A BERT-based Framework for Demographic-aware Empathy Prediction

Bhanu Prakash Reddy Guda, Aparna Garimella, Niyati Chhaya

December 15, 2020 The 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2020)

Understanding and Explicitly Measuring Linguistic and Stylistic Properties of Deception via Generation and Translation

Emily Saldanha, Aparna Garimella, Svitlana Volkova

December 8, 2020 The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020)

“Judge me by my size (noun), do you?” YodaLib: A Demographic-Aware Humor Generation Framework

Aparna Garimella, Carmen Banea, Nabil Hossain, Rada Mihalcea