--- title: "Shubham Kumar Nigam — author profile and papers" description: "Shubham Kumar Nigam, University of Dubai: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2026), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shubham-kumar-nigam/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shubham-kumar-nigam/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Shubham Kumar Nigam # Shubham Kumar Nigam 4 papers on this site · 2021–2026 current affiliation [University of Dubai](https://ror.org/05h0z7c09), Dubai, United Arab Emirates; [Utrecht University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/utrecht-university/), Utrecht, Netherlands; [University of Birmingham](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-birmingham/), Birmingham, United Kingdom; [Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-kanpur/), Kanpur, India Shubham Kumar Nigam has 4 papers on this site, in 2021–2026, most of them on [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Legal AI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Arnab Bhattacharya](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arnab-bhattacharya/), [Kripabandhu Ghosh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kripabandhu-ghosh/), [Mosab Shaheen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mosab-shaheen/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5031756412) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2564-7866) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5031756412) · [44 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5031756412) · [321 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5031756412&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [4 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shubham-kumar-nigam/#papers) · [249 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shubham-kumar-nigam/cited-by/) · 18 more works in our library The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Shubham+Kumar+Nigam) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shubham+Kumar+Nigam) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shubham+Kumar+Nigam) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shubham+Kumar+Nigam) ## Affiliations - [Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-kanpur/) · Kanpur, India —current · 2017–2026 on 22 papers · education from 2017: PhD, Computer Science and Engineering (ORCID) - [University of Birmingham](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-birmingham/) · Birmingham, United Kingdom —current · 2023–2026 on 14 papers · employment from 2025: Post Doc, Computer Science (ORCID) - [University of Dubai](https://ror.org/05h0z7c09) · Dubai, United Arab Emirates —current · 2026 on 1 paper - [Utrecht University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/utrecht-university/) · Utrecht, Netherlands —current · 2026 on 1 paper From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Topics [Sentiment & emotion 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Legal AI 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Semitic languages 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nigam-2026-structured-legal-document-generation-india/) · [**2022** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shubham-kumar-nigam/year/2022/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/malik-2021-ildc-cjpe-indian-legal-documents/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ILDC for CJPE: Indian Legal Documents Corpus for Court Judgment Prediction and Explanation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/malik-2021-ildc-cjpe-indian-legal-documents/)** *(2021 · 251 citations)* India's courts carry a large backlog of pending cases. A tool that suggests likely outcomes could help judges, but only if it also gives reasons that legal professionals can follow. The authors build ILDC, a corpus of roughly 35k English-language proceedings of the Supreme Court of India, collected from… 2. **[Plumeria at SemEval-2022 Task 6: Sarcasm Detection for English and Arabic Using Transformers and Data Augmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shaheen-2022-plumeria-semeval-2022-task-6/)** *(2022 · 10 citations)* The paper reports team Plumeria's systems for SemEval-2022 Task 6 (iSarcasm), which covers sarcasm in English and Arabic tweets. 3. **[Plumeria at SemEval-2022 Task 6: Robust Approaches for Sarcasm Detection for English and Arabic Using Transformers and Data Augmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nigam-2022-plumeria-semeval-2022-task-6/)** *(2022 · 5 citations)* The paper describes team Plumeria's entry to SemEval-2022 Task 6 (iSarcasm). The task asks systems to detect sarcasm in English and Arabic tweets, which matters because sarcasm inverts literal meaning and misleads sentiment and opinion systems. It has five subtasks: binary sarcasm detection (A, both languages)… 4. **[Structured Legal Document Generation in India: A Model-Agnostic Wrapper Approach with VidhikDastaavej](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nigam-2026-structured-legal-document-generation-india/)** *(2026)* Drafting private legal documents such as contracts and agreements takes a lot of work. Legal NLP in India has paid it little attention, mainly because these texts are confidential and no public training data exists. The authors close this gap with VidhikDastaavej, a collection of anonymized private drafts. They… ## Also in our library 18 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Arnab Bhattacharya](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arnab-bhattacharya/) ×2 - [Kripabandhu Ghosh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kripabandhu-ghosh/) ×2 - [Mosab Shaheen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mosab-shaheen/) ×2 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 249 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shubham-kumar-nigam/cited-by/).