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2026

DashboardQA: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Question Answering on Interactive Dashboards

Aaryaman Kartha, Ahmed Masry, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Thinh Lang, Shadikur Rahman, Ridwan Mahbub, Mizanur Rahman, Mahir Ahmed, Md Rizwan Parvez, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty

In Proceedings of the Conference on European Chapter of the ACL (EACL)  ·   2026

Aligning Text, Code, and Vision: A Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning Framework for Text-to-Vis

Mizanur Rahman, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Shafiq Joty, Enamul Hoque

In Proceedings of the Conference on European Chapter of the ACL (EACL)  ·   2026

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LLM-Based Data Science Agents: A Survey of Capabilities, Challenges, and Future Directions

Mizanur Rahman, Amran Bhuiyan, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Ridwan Mahbub, Ahmed Masry, Shafiq Joty, Enamul Hoque

In Proceedings of the Conference on European Chapter of the ACL (EACL)  ·   2026

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2025

Large Language Models for Information Visualization

Enamul Hoque

Springer  ·   2025

AuthorNet: Leveraging attention-based early fusion of transformers for low-resource authorship attribution

Md. Rajib Hossain, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque, M. Ali Akber Dewan, Enamul Hoque, Nazmul Siddique

Expert Systems with Applications  ·   2025

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AFuNet: An Attention-Based Fusion Network to Classify Texts in a Resource-Constrained Language

Md. Rajib Hossain, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque, M. Ali Akber Dewan, Enamul Hoque, Nazmul Siddique

Neural Computing and Applications  ·   2025

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Deploying Tiny LVLM Judges for Real-World Evaluation of Chart Models: Lessons Learned and Best Practices

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Ridwan Mahbub, Mizanur Rahman, Amran Bhuiyan, Israt Jahan, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Shafiq Joty, Enamul Hoque, Jimmy Huang

EMNLP 2025 (Industry Track)  ·   2025

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ColMate: Contrastive Late Interaction and Masked Text for Multimodal Document Retrieval

Ahmed Masry, Megh Thakkar, Patrice Bechard, Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan, Rabiul Awal, Shambhavi Mishra, Akshay Kalkunte Suresh, Srivatsava Daruru, Enamul Hoque, Spandana Gella, Torsten Scholak, Sai Rajeswar

EMNLP 2025 (Industry Track)  ·   2025

Text2Vis: A Challenging and Diverse Benchmark for Generating Multimodal Visualizations from Text

Mizanur Rahman, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Shafiq Joty, Enamul Hoque

EMNLP 2025  ·   2025

AlignVLM: Rethinking LLM-as-a-Judge for Fair Evaluation of Chart Reasoning

Ahmed Masry, Juan A. Rodriguez, Tianyu Zhang, Suyuchen Wang, Chao Wang, Aarash Feizi, Akshay Kalkunte Suresh, Abhay Puri, Xiangru Jian, Pierre-André Noël, Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan, Marco Pedersoli, Bang Liu, Nicolas Chapados, Yoshua Bengio, Enamul Hoque, Christopher Pal, Issam H. Laradji, David Vazquez, Perouz Taslakian, Spandana Gella, Sai Rajeswar

NeurIPS 2025  ·   2025

The Perils of Chart Deception: How Misleading Visualizations Affect Vision-Language Models

Ridwan Mahbub, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mizanur Rahman, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Enamul Hoque

IEEE VIS 2025 (Short Paper) [ Best Paper Award]  ·   2025

From Charts to Fair Narratives: Uncovering and Mitigating Geo-Economic Biases in Chart-to-Text

Ridwan Mahbub, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mizanur Rahman, Shafiq Joty, Enamul Hoque

EMNLP 2025  ·   2025

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BigCharts-R1: Enhanced Chart Reasoning with Visual Reinforcement Fine-Tuning

Ahmed Masry, Abhay Puri, Masoud Hashemi, Juan A. Rodriguez, Megh Thakkar, Khyati Mahajan, Vikas Yadav, Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan, Alexandre Piché, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Christopher Pal, David Vazquez, Enamul Hoque, Perouz Taslakian, Sai Rajeswar, Spandana Gella

COLM 2025  ·   2025

ChartQAPro: A More Diverse and Challenging Benchmark for Chart Question Answering

Ahmed Masry, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Mahir Ahmed, Aayush Bajaj, Firoz Kabir, Aaryaman Kartha, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mizanur Rahman, Shadikur Rahman, Mehrad Shahmohammadi, Megh Thakkar, Md Rizwan Parvez, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty

ACL 2025 (Findings)  ·   2025

Improving Automatic Evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Biomedical Relation Extraction via LLMs-as-the-Judge

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Israt Jahan, Elham Dolatabadi, Chun Peng, Enamul Hoque, Jimmy Huang

ACL 2025  ·   2025

Judging the Judges: Can Large Vision-Language Models Fairly Evaluate Chart Comprehension and Reasoning?

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Ridwan Mahbub, Ahmed Masry, Mizanur Rahman, Amran Bhuiyan, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Shafiq Joty, Enamul Hoque, Jimmy Huang

ACL 2025 (Industry Track)  ·   2025

ChartGemma: Visual Instruction-tuning for Chart Reasoning in the Wild

Ahmed Masry, Megh Thakkar, Aayush Bajaj, Aaryaman Kartha, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty

ACL 2025 (Industry Track)  ·   2025

ColFlor: Towards BERT-Size Vision-Language Document Retrieval Models

Ahmed Masry, Enamul Hoque

IEEE MLSP 2025 Workshop  ·   2025

2024

Natural Language Generation for Visualizations: State of the Art, Challenges and Future Directions

Enamul Hoque, Mohammed Saidul Islam

Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) 44(1) 1–23  ·   2024

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Open-RAG: Enhanced Retrieval Augmented Reasoning with Open-Source Large Language Models

Shayekh Bin Islam, Md Asib Rahman, K S M Tozammel Hossain, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty, Md Rizwan Parvez

EMNLP 2024 (Findings)  ·   2024

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DataNarrative: Automated Data-Driven Storytelling with Visualizations and Texts

Mohammed Saidul Islam, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Md Rizwan Parvez, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty

EMNLP 2024  ·   2024

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Are Large Vision Language Models up to the Challenge of Chart Comprehension and Reasoning?

Mohammed Saidul Islam, Raian Rahman, Ahmed Masry, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Enamul Hoque

EMNLP 2024 (Findings)  ·   2024

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A Systematic Survey and Critical Review on Evaluating Large Language Models: Challenges, Limitations, and Recommendations

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Sawsan Alqahtani, M Saiful Bari, Mizanur Rahman, Mohammad Abdullah Matin Khan, Haidar Khan, Israt Jahan, Amran Bhuiyan, Chee Wei Tan, Md Rizwan Parvez, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty, Jimmy Huang

EMNLP 2024  ·   2024

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ChartInstruct: Instruction Tuning for Chart Comprehension and Reasoning

Ahmed Masry, Mehrad Shahmohammadi, Md Rizwan Parvez, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty

ACL 2024 (Findings)  ·   2024

BenLLMEval: A Comprehensive Evaluation into the Potentials and Pitfalls of Large Language Models on Bengali NLP

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mizanur Rahman, Israt Jahan, Enamul Hoque, Jimmy Xiangji Huang

LREC-COLING 2024  ·   2024

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RefineCode: Enhancing Code Quality Through Actionable Code Review Recommendations and Intelligent Issue Resolution

Shadikur Rahman, Umme Ayman Koana, Enamul Hoque

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Towards a Holistic Evaluation of LLM Generated Code for Exploratory Visual Analysis

Anamaria Crisan, Enamul Hoque

HEAL@CHI 2024 Workshop  ·   2024

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2023

UniChart: A Universal Vision-Language Pretrained Model for Chart Comprehension and Reasoning

Ahmed Masry, Parsa Kavehzadeh, Xuan Long Do, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty

EMNLP 2023  ·   2023

Can Large Language Models Fix Data Annotation Errors? An Empirical Study Using Debatepedia for Query-Focused Text Summarization

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mizanur Rahman, Israt Jahan, Enamul Hoque, Jimmy Xiangji Huang

EMNLP 2023  ·   2023

SeeChart: Enabling Accessible Visualizations Through Interactive Natural Language Interface For People with Visual Impairments

Md Zubair Ibne Alam, Shehnaz Islam, Enamul Hoque

IUI 2023  ·   2023

Do LLMs Work on Charts? Designing Few-Shot Prompts for Chart Question Answering and Summarization

Xuan Long Do, Mohammad Hassanpour, Ahmed Masry, Parsa Kavehzadeh, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty

arXiv preprint  ·   2023

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2022

Chart Question Answering: State of the Art and Future Directions

Enamul Hoque, Parsa Kavehzadeh, Ahmed Masry

Computer Graphics Forum 41(3) 555–572  ·   2022

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A Deep Attentive Multimodal Learning Approach for Disaster Identification from Social Media Posts

Eftekhar Hossain, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque, Enamul Hoque, Md Saiful Islam

IEEE Access 10 46538–46551  ·   2022

OpenCQA: Open-ended Question Answering with Charts

Shankar Kantharaj, Xuan Long Do, Rixie Tiffany Leong, Jia Qing Tan, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty

EMNLP 2022  ·   2022

Chart-to-Text: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Chart Summarization

Shankar Kantharaj, Rixie Tiffany Leong, Xiang Lin, Ahmed Masry, Megh Thakkar, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty

ACL 2022  ·   2022

ChartQA: A Benchmark for Question Answering about Charts with Visual and Logical Reasoning

Ahmed Masry, Do Xuan Long, Jia Qing Tan, Shafiq Joty, Enamul Hoque

In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 4005–4023, 2022.  ·   2022

2021

ConVIScope: Visual Analytics for Exploring Patient Conversations

Raymond Li, Enamul Hoque, Giuseppe Carenini, Richard Lester, Raymond Chau

IEEE VIS 2021 (Short Paper)  ·   2021

CommunityPulse: Facilitating Community Input Analysis by Surfacing Hidden Insights, Reflections, and Priorities

Mahmood Jasim, Enamul Hoque, Narges Mahyar, Ali Sarvghad

In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (Best Paper Honorable Mention)  ·   2021

Integrating Image Data Extraction and Table Parsing Methods for Chart Question Answering

Ahmed Masry, Enamul Hoque

(Chart Question Answering Workshop), in conjunction with the CVPR [ Best Paper Award]  ·   2021

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Domain Adaptation with Pre-trained Transformers for Query-Focused Abstractive Text Summarization

TahmidRahman, Enamul Hoque, Jimmy Xiangji Huang

Journal of Computational Linguistics (CL), 48(2) 279–320  ·   2021

Designing and Evaluating Multimodal Interactions for Facilitating Visual Analysis With Dashboards

Imran Chowdhury, Abdul Moeid, Enamul Hoque, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Md. Sabir Hossain, Mohammad Mainul Islam

IEEE Access  ·   2021

2020

Query Focused Abstractive Summarization via Incorporating Query Relevance and Transfer Learning with Transformer Models

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Enamul Hoque, Jimmy Huang

Advances in Artificial Intelligence  ·   2020

ConVisQA: A Natural Language Interface for Visually Exploring Online Conversations

Nadia Siddiqui, Enamul Hoque

In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference InformationVisualisation  ·   2020

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MIVA: Multimodal Interactions for Facilitating Visual Analysis with Multiple Coordinated Views

Imran Chowdhury, Enamul Hoque, Abdul Moeid, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Md. Sabir Hossain, Mohammad Mainul Islam

In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)  ·   2020

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Answering Questions about Charts and Generating Visual Explanations

Dae Hyun Kim, Enamul Hoque, Maneesh Agrawala

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)  ·   2020

Contextualized Embeddings based Transformer Encoder for Sentence Similarity Modeling in Answer Selection Task

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Jimmy Xiangji Huang, Enamul Hoque

Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference  ·   2020

ClaimViz: Visual Analytics for Identifying and Verifying Factual Claims

Md Main Uddin Rony, Enamul Hoque, Naeemul Hassan

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  ·   2020

Towards Understanding Desiderata for Large-Scale Civic Input Analysis

Mahmood Jasim, Enamul Hoque, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar

In Proceedings of The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)  ·   2020

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Sneak Pique - Exploring Autocompletion as a Data Discovery Scaffold for Supporting Visual Analysis

Vidya Setlur, Enamul Hoque, Dae Hyun Kim, Angel X. Chang

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)  ·   2020

WSL-DS: Weakly Supervised Learning with Distant Supervision for Query Focused Multi-Document Abstractive Summarization

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Enamul Hoque, Jimmy Xiangji Huang

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics  ·   2020

Chart-to-Text: Generating Natural Language Descriptions for Charts by Adapting the Transformer Model

Jason Obeid, Enamul Hoque

In Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG)  ·   2020

2019

Utilizing Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers for Answer Selection

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Enamul Hoque, Jimmy Huang

In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference InformationVisualisation  ·   2019

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Visual Exploration of Topic Controversy in Online Conversations

Enamul Hoque, Esha Abid

In Proceedings of HCI International (late-breaking work),  ·   2019

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Searching the Visual Style and Structure of D3 Visualizations

Enamul Hoque, Maneesh Agrawala

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics  ·   2019

2018

Applying Pragmatics Principles for Interaction with Visual Analytics

Enamul Hoque, Vidya Setlur, Melanie Tory, Isaac Dykeman

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics  ·   2018

Interactive topic hierarchy revision for exploring a collection of online conversations

Enamul Hoque, Giuseppe Carenini

In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), pp. 1-10, 2018.  ·   2018

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Facilitating Document Reading by Linking Text and Tables

Dae Hyun Kim, Enamul Hoque, Juho Kim, Maneesh Agrawala

In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST), pp. 423-434, 2018.  ·   2018