Surangika Ranathunga

Ananya - a Named-Entity-Recognition (NER) system for Sinhala language

2016

Named-Entity-Recognition (NER) is one of the major tasks under Natural Language Processing, which is widely used in the fields of Computer Science and Computational Linguistics. However, the amount of prior research done on NER for …

Anomaly detection in complex trading systems

2017

System availability is one of the major requirements expected from systems in the trading domain. In order to prevent system outages that can deteriorate system availability, anomaly detection must be able to assess the status …

Clustering Sinhala News Articles Using Corpus-Based Similarity Measures

2018

News aggregators help readers to handle large numbers of news items in a convenient manner by collecting them into a single place with meaningful groupings. Such news aggregators/clusters are available for English and some other …

Indic language computing

2019 · Communications of the ACM

research-article Share on Indic language computing Authors: Pushpak Bhattacharyya IIT Bombay and IIT Patna IIT Bombay and IIT PatnaView Profile , Hema Murthy IIT Madras IIT MadrasView Profile , Surangika Ranathunga University of Moratuwa University …

Lexicon‐based fine‐tuning of multilingual language models for low‐resource language sentiment analysis

2024 · CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology

Abstract Pre‐trained multilingual language models (PMLMs) such as mBERT and XLM‐R have shown good cross‐lingual transferability. However, they are not specifically trained to capture cross‐lingual signals concerning sentiment words. This poses a disadvantage for low‐resource …