Shramay Palta

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science | NLP Researcher

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8125 Paint Branch Dr, College Park, MD 20742

spalta [at] umd [dot] edu

I am a third year Ph.D. Student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park where I am advised by Professor Rachel Rudinger.

I am a member of the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) Lab in UMIACS.

My research interests broadly lie in the areas of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing with a focus on Commonsense Reasoning, Explainability and Interpretability, and Bias and Fairness in NLP.

I got my Master of Science in Computer Science from UMD in 2023. Before coming to Maryland, I graduated from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani in 2021 with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

During my time at BITS Pilani, I was a Research Assistant at the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics (MIND) Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park where I researched on algorithms for contact tracing for COVID-19, and on time-series analysis for segmentation of breathing data.

News

Nov 13, 2023 New preprint on LLM reasoning! View it here: It’s Not Easy Being Wrong: Evaluating Process of Elimination Reasoning in Large Language Models
Jul 14, 2023 Presented a paper at the Third Trustworthy Natural Language Processing Workshop at ACL 2023!
Jun 13, 2023 Got my Master of Science in Computer Science from UMD!
May 02, 2023 My first paper was accepted to the Findings of ACL 2023! View it here: FORK: A Bite-Sized Test Set for Probing Culinary Cultural Biases in Commonsense Reasoning Models
Feb 02, 2023 I will be a reviewer for ACL 2023 for the Ethics and NLP track!

Selected Publications

  1. It’s Not Easy Being Wrong: Evaluating Process of Elimination Reasoning in Large Language Models
    Nishant Balepur , Shramay Palta, and Rachel Rudinger
    ArXiv, 2023
  2. FORK: A Bite-Sized Test Set for Probing Culinary Cultural Biases in Commonsense Reasoning Models
    Shramay Palta, and Rachel Rudinger
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 , Jul 2023