Ashok Urlana Currently, I am working as a Researcher at TCS research. Earlier, I did my Masters in NLP at International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad, under the supervision of Manish Shrivastava. Previously I worked with Chakravarthi Jada My research interests are explainability and interpretability of LLMs. I am also interested in multimodal, multilingual text summarization for low-resource languages and bio-inspired algorithms and its related topics. [Google Scholar] [Semantic Scholar] [Linkedin] [GitHub] [E-mail: ashokurlana@gmail.com]

Experience

TCS Research	August 2023 - present	Researcher
IIIT-Hyderabad	July 2020 - July 2023	Masters by Research
IIIT-Hyderabad	May 2019 - June 2020	Research Intern
RGUKT-Nuzvid	June 2014 - May 2018	Bachelors Degree

Services

• Program Committee/Reviewer:
  • Association for Computational Linguistics Rolling Review (ARR): 2023, 2024
  • EACL Student Research Workshop, 2024
  • EACL DravidianLangTech Workshop, 2024
  • Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023
  • International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), 2023

Research

Masters Thesis

• Enhancing Text Summarization for Indian Languages: Mono, Multi and Cross-lingual Approaches
  Ashok Urlana
  Masters Thesis , July 2023
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Preprints

• LLMs with Industrial Lens: Deciphering the Challenges and Prospects -- A Survey
  Ashok Urlana, Charaka Vinayak Kumar, Ajeet Kumar Singh, Bala Mallikarjunarao Garlapati, Srinivasa Rao Chalamala, Rahul Mishra
  In arXiv , preprint 2024
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Publications

• No Size Fits All: The Perils and Pitfalls of Leveraging LLMs Vary with Company Size
  Ashok Urlana, Charaka Vinayak Kumar, Bala Mallikarjunarao Garlapati, Ajeet Kumar Singh, Rahul Mishra
  In proceedings of COLING 2025 Industry Track
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• LimGen: Probing the LLMs for Generating Suggestive Limitations of Research Papers
  Abdur Rahman Bin Md Faizullah*, Ashok Urlana*, Rahul Mishra
  In proceedings of ECML PKDD 2024
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• Controllable Text Summarization: Unraveling Challenges, Approaches, and Prospects -- A Survey
  Ashok Urlana, Pruthwik Mishra, Tathagato Roy, Rahul Mishra
  Findings of ACL2024
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• Assessing Translation Capabilities of Large Language Models involving English and Indian Languages
  Vandan Mujadia, Ashok Urlana, Yash Bhaskar, Penumalla Aditya Pavani, Kukkapalli Shravya, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Dipti Misra Sharma
  In Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) 2024
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• Exploring News Summarization and Enrichment in a Highly Resource-Scarce Indian Language: A Case Study of Mizo
  Abhinaba Bala, Ashok Urlana, Rahul Mishra, Parameswari Krishnamurthy
  In WILDRE-7 workshop at LREC-COLING 2024
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• TrustAI at SemEval-2024 Task 8: A Comprehensive Analysis of Multi-domain Machine Generated Text Detection Techniques
  Ashok Urlana, Aditya Saibewar, Bala Mallikarjunarao Garlapati, Charaka Vinayak Kumar, Ajeet Kumar Singh, Srinivasa Rao Chalamala
  In SemEval workshop at NAACL2024
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• Automatic Data Retrieval for Cross Lingual Summarization
  Nikhilesh Bhatnagar*, Ashok Urlana*, Vandan Mujadia, Pruthwik Mishra, Dipti Misra Sharma
  In proceedings of International Conference on Natural Language Processing , ICON 2023
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• PMIndiaSum: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Headline Summarization for Languages in India
  Ashok Urlana*, Pinzhen Chen*, Zheng Zhao, Shay Cohen, Manish Shrivastava, and Barry Haddow
  In Findings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2023
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• Indian Language Summarization using Pretrained Sequence-to-Sequence Models
  Ashok Urlana, Sahil Manoj Bhatt, Nirmal Surange, Manish Shrivastava
  Indian Language Summarization (ILSUM) track , Forum for Information Retrieval 2022
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• Ltrc@ mup 2022: Multi-perspective scientific document summarization using pre-trained generation models
  Ashok Urlana, Nirmal Surange, Manish Shrivastava
  Scholary Document Processing (SDP) Workshop, COLING 2022
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• TeSum: Human-Generated Abstractive Summarization Corpus for Telugu
  Ashok Urlana*, Nirmal Surange*, Pavan Baswani, Priyanka Ravva, Manish Shrivastava
  Language Resources and Evaluation Conference , LREC 2022
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• AVADHAN: System for Open-Domain Telugu Question Answering
  Priyanka Ravva, Ashok Urlana, Manish Shrivastava
  Conference on Data Science and Management of Data ,CODS-COMAD 2021
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• Bflier's: A Novel Butterfly Inspired Multi-robotic Model in Search of Signal Sources
  Chakravarthi Jada , Vinod Babu P , Pavan Baswani , Ashok Urlana , Marek Kolencik , Martin Sebesta, Ramakanth Illa
  Conference on Robotics, Intelligent Automation and Control Technologies (RIACT) , 2021
  Honourable Mention for the Outstanding Oral Presentation Award [PDF]
  
  
• Simultaneous localization of signal sources inspired by butterfly paradigm
  Chakravarthi Jada, Vinod Pusuluri, Pavan Baswani, Ashok Urlana , Mahima Kumari Devineni, Padma Priya Motepalli, Ganesh Bodakurthi, Sumanth Motupalli
  Advances in Robotics (AIR) , 2019
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• Bflybots: a novel robotic-swarm in pursuit of dynamic signal sources
  Madhusudhana Rao Bhattiprolu, Chakravarhi Jada, Ashok Urlana, Pavan Baswani, Navyasri Pentakota, Rama Lakshmi Bonagiri, Naveen Boddeda
  Conference on Robotics and Smart Manufacturing (RoSMa) , 2018
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• BflyBot: Mobile robotic platform for implementing Butterfly mating phenomenon
  Chakravarthi Jada, Ashok Urlana, Shaik Gouse Basha, Pavan Baswani
  Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamic Systems (ACODS) , 2018
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• Butterfly Inspired Multi-robotic Swarm for Signal Source Localization
  Chakravarthi Jada, Ch RS Lokesh, Ashok Urlana, Shaik Gouse Basha, Baswani Pavan, Yerubandi Shirdi Swamy, Kantha Rao Bora, Karri Balaraju
  Advances in Robotics (AIR), 2017
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• Butterflies: A new source of inspiration for futuristic aerial robotics
  Chakravarthi Jada , Ashok Urlana ,Pavan Baswani, Vinod Babu P
  ICRA Late breaking, 2017
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Personal

I enjoy traveling and watching cricket.

Last Updated: 11 Apr 2024.