--- title: "Srija Anand — author profile and papers · Question answering" description: "Srija Anand, Indian Institute of Technology Madras: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srija-anand/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srija-anand/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Srija Anand # Srija Anand Srija Anand has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [Low-resource languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/); often with [Atnafu Lambebo Tonja](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atnafu-lambebo-tonja/), [Debela Desalegn Yadeta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/debela-desalegn-yadeta/), [Idris Abdulmumin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/idris-abdulmumin/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5106912740) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5106912740) · [15 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5106912740) · [7 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5106912740&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srija-anand/#papers) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12227](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/123/#star-12227) 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=Srija+Anand) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Srija+Anand) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Srija+Anand) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Srija+Anand) ## Affiliations [🎓**Indian Institute of Technology Madras** Chennai · India 2024–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-madras/) · [🎓**Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi** Delhi · India 2020 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indraprastha-institute-of-information-technology-delhi/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Signal Processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Low-resource languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srija-anand/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srija-anand/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tonja-2026-afri-mcqa-multimodal-cultural-question/)** *(2026)* Afri-MCQA addresses a gap in multimodal AI evaluation. Existing cultural VQA benchmarks cover few African languages and query models only through text, even though many African languages are used mainly in spoken form. The authors built a benchmark of about 7.5k image-grounded question–answer pairs in 15 sub-Saharan… 2. **[Phir Hera Fairy: An English Fairytaler is a Strong Faker of Fluent Speech in Low-Resource Indian Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/varadhan-2025-phir-hera-fairy-english-fairytaler/)** *(2025)* The paper asks whether a large English-only TTS model can be a cheap starting point for speech synthesis in low-resource Indian languages, avoiding the cost of collecting huge datasets and training from scratch. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Atnafu Lambebo Tonja](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atnafu-lambebo-tonja/) - [Debela Desalegn Yadeta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/debela-desalegn-yadeta/) - [Idris Abdulmumin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/idris-abdulmumin/) - [Israel Abebe Azime](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/israel-abebe-azime/) - [Jesujoba Alabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jesujoba-alabi/) - [Mitesh M.Khapra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitesh-m-khapra/) - [Naome A Etori](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/naome-a-etori/) - [Negasi Haile Abadi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/negasi-haile-abadi/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) Updated 1 November 2026