| 2026 | AAAI | Facilitating Early Maladaptive Schema-Guided Polite and Empathetic Psychotherapeutic Support: An LLM-Driven MoE-RL-Based Dialogue System. | Priyanshu Priya, Asif Ekbal |
| 2026 | ACL | PRISMA: Preference-Reinforced Self-Training Approach for Interpretable Emotionally Intelligent Negotiation Dialogues. | Prajwal Vijay Kajare, Priyanshu Priya, Bikash Santra, Asif Ekbal |
| 2026 | LREC | Faithful Medical Dialogue Generation Using Homo-Heterogeneous Exemplar-based In-Context Knowledge Grounding. | Priyanshu Priya, Hardik Goyal, Asif Ekbal |
| 2025 | AAAI | GENTEEL-NEGOTIATOR: LLM-Enhanced Mixture-of-Expert-Based Reinforcement Learning Approach for Polite Negotiation Dialogue. | Priyanshu Priya, Rishikant Chigrupaatii, Mauajama Firdaus, Asif Ekbal |
| 2025 | EMNLP | We Argue to Agree: Towards Personality-Driven Argumentation-Based Negotiation Dialogue Systems for Tourism. | Priyanshu Priya, Saurav Dudhate, Desai Yasheshbhai, Asif Ekbal |
| 2025 | NAACL | MENDER: Multi-hop Commonsense and Domain-specific CoT Reasoning for Knowledge-grounded Empathetic Counseling of Crime Victims. | Abid Hossain, Priyanshu Priya, Armita Mani Tripathi, Pradeepika Verma, Asif Ekbal |
| 2024 | ECIR | Affective Computing for Social Good Applications: Current Advances, Gaps and Opportunities in Conversational Setting. | Priyanshu Priya, Mauajama Firdaus, Gopendra Vikram Singh, Asif Ekbal |
| 2024 | EMNLP | TRIP NEGOTIATOR: A Travel Persona-aware Reinforced Dialogue Generation Model for Personalized Integrative Negotiation in Tourism. | Priyanshu Priya, Desai Yasheshbhai, Ratnesh Kumar Joshi, Roshni R. Ramnani, Anutosh Maitra, Shubhashis Sengupta, Asif Ekbal |
| 2024 | NAACL | On the Way to Gentle AI Counselor: Politeness Cause Elicitation and Intensity Tagging in Code-mixed Hinglish Conversations for Social Good. | Priyanshu Priya, Gopendra Vikram Singh, Mauajama Firdaus, Jyotsna Agrawal, Asif Ekbal |
| 2023 | AAAI | Help Me Heal: A Reinforced Polite and Empathetic Mental Health and Legal Counseling Dialogue System for Crime Victims. | Kshitij Mishra, Priyanshu Priya, Asif Ekbal |
| 2023 | ACL | PAL to Lend a Helping Hand: Towards Building an Emotion Adaptive Polite and Empathetic Counseling Conversational Agent. | Kshitij Mishra, Priyanshu Priya, Asif Ekbal |
| 2023 | EMNLP | e-THERAPIST: I suggest you to cultivate a mindset of positivity and nurture uplifting thoughts. | Kshitij Mishra, Priyanshu Priya, Manisha Burja, Asif Ekbal |
| 2023 | IJCAI | PARTNER: A Persuasive Mental Health and Legal Counselling Dialogue System for Women and Children Crime Victims. | Priyanshu Priya, Kshitij Mishra, Palak Totala, Asif Ekbal |
| 2023 | IJCNLP | Mixing It Up: Inducing Empathy and Politeness using Multiple Behaviour-aware Generators for Conversational Systems. | Mauajama Firdaus, Priyanshu Priya, Asif Ekbal |
| 2022 | LREC | EmoInHindi: A Multi-label Emotion and Intensity Annotated Dataset in Hindi for Emotion Recognition in Dialogues. | Gopendra Vikram Singh, Priyanshu Priya, Mauajama Firdaus, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya |