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05 11 2025

DELIFT: Data Efficient Language model Instruction Fine Tuning

Sivaganeshan Aravinth

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29 10 2025

Tensor Fusion Network for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Vishal Thenuwara

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22 10 2025

SCaLe-QA: Sri lankan Case Law Embeddings for Legal QA?

Rajith Arulanandam

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24 09 2025

Text Sentiment Analysis of Douban Film Short Comments Based on BERT-CNN-BiLSTM-Att Model

Yomal De Mel

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03 09 2025

Data Augmentation to Induce High Quality Parallel Data for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation (PhD Defence)

Aloka Fernando

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03 09 2025

The Dynamics of Meaning: Towards the Evaluation of Diachronic Semantic Drift in Sinhala Language (Progress Review 1)

Nevidu Jayatilleke

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13 08 2025

Linguistic Entity Masking to Improve Cross-Lingual Sentence Retrieval Capabilities of Multilingual Language Models

Aloka Fernando

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06 08 2025

Multi-Stage LLM Fine-Tuning with a Continual Learning Setting

Sivaganeshan Aravinth

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30 07 2025

Dual Encoder: Exploiting the Potential of Syntactic and Semantic for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction

Vishal Thenuwara

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29 07 2025

Automatically Filtering Domain Specific Data from Web Mined Parallel Corpora (Progress Review 3)

Charitha Rathnayaka

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17 07 2025

A Multi-Stage AI Framework for Legal Case Retrieval (PGDip Defence)

Rajith Arulanandam

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16 07 2025

Hybrid CNN LSTM Approach for Sentiment Analysis of Bengali Language Comment on Facebook

Yomal De Mel

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04 06 2025

The Dynamics of Meaning: Towards the Evaluation of Diachronic Semantic Drift in Sinhala Language

Nevidu Jayatilleke

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28 05 2025

Legal Case Retrieval: A Survey of the State of the Art

Rajith Arulanandam

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28 05 2025

Headline Generation for Sinhala Newspaper Articles using Pre-trained Language Models (Defence)

Pubudu Cooray

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26 05 2025

Multi-Domain Neural Machine Translation with Knowledge Distillation for Low-Resource Languages (Defence)

Velayuthan Menan

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14 05 2025

Unsupervised Mixed-Language Multi-document Summarisation

Thevapalan Anushiya

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14 05 2025

Towards Multi-document Summarisation in Low-resource Settings (Defence)

Kushan Hewapathirana

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07 05 2025

Dual Encoder: Exploiting the Potential of Syntactic and Semantic for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction

Vishal Thenuwara

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30 04 2025

An Investigation of Prompt Variations for Zero-shot LLM-based Rankers

Sivaganeshan Aravinth

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21 04 2025

The Dynamics of Meaning: Towards the Evaluation of Diachronic Semantic Drift in Sinhala Language (Proposal Defence)

Nevidu Jayatilleke

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19 04 2025

The Dynamics of Meaning: Towards the Evaluation of Diachronic Semantic Drift in Sinhala Language (Proposal Practice)

Nevidu Jayatilleke

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26 03 2025

GeeSanBhava: Sentiment Tagged Sinhala Music Video Comment Data Set

Yomal De Mel

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05 03 2025

Towards Multi-document Summarisation in Low-resource Settings (Practice)

Kushan Hewapathirana

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03 02 2025

Automatic Generation of Research Paper Abstracts using Deep-Hybrid Models (Defence)

Dushan Kumarasinghe

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31 01 2025

Automated User Review Analysis To Facilitate Potential Mobile Application Evolution (Defence)

Sadeep Gunathilaka

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15 01 2025

Linguistic Analysis of Sinhala YouTube Comments on Sinhala Music Videos: A Dataset Study

Yomal De Mel

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08 01 2025

Automatic Generation of Research Paper Abstracts using Deep-Hybrid Models (Practice)

Dushan Kumarasinghe

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25 12 2024

Automated User Review Analysis To Facilitate Potential Mobile Application Evolution (Practice)

Sadeep Gunathilaka

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04 12 2024

ORPO: Monolithic Preference Optimization without Reference Model

Sivaganeshan Aravinth

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30 10 2024

M2DS: Multilingual Dataset for Multi-document Summarisation

Kushan Hewapathirana

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23 10 2024

Automatic Analysis Of App Reviews Using LLMs

Sadeep Gunathilaka

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09 10 2024

PyABSA: Open Framework for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

Vishal Thenuwara

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02 10 2024

Sentence-T5 (ST5): Scalable Sentence Encoders from Pre-trained Text-to-Text Models

Velayuthan Menan

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25 09 2024

LLM-based Personal Travel Planner

Amandi Nimasha, Dushan Fernando, Oshadha Wijerathne

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25 09 2024

Improving cross-lingual representations of multilingual LLM

Aravinda Kankanamge, Samith Karunathilake, Isbahan Rashad

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25 09 2024

Neural Spell Checker for Sinhala

Tharusha Bandaranayake, Akesh Samuditha, Nadil Karunarathna

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11 09 2024

Zero-shot Cross-lingual Transfer for Low Resource NLP

Themira Chathumina, Imalsha Puranegedara, Nisal Ranathunga

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11 09 2024

Automated Vulnerability Repair for Machine Learning Systems

Shehan Premathilaka, Sheshan Premathilaka, Indunil Umayanga

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11 09 2024

Slicing the Bug: Context-aware Multi-line Bug Fixing with LLMs

Minindu Rupasinghe, Chamil Gamage, Kulindu Rovin

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04 09 2024

Using Large Language Models to Implement Normative Reasoning Capabilities of Autonomous Agents

Kavindu Warnakulasuriya, Prabhash Dissanayake, Navindu De Silva

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28 08 2024

Transformer-based approach towards music emotion recognition from lyrics

Yomal De Mel

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24 07 2024

Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model

Sivaganeshan Aravinth

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10 07 2024

Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis on Mobile Application Reviews

Sadeep Gunathilaka

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26 06 2024

A Hierarchical Encoding-Decoding Scheme for Abstractive Multi-document Summarization

Kushan Hewapathirana

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20 06 2024

[MBA] Identifying the Factors Affecting Career Development of Virtual Newcomers: Evidence From the IT Industry (Defence)

Heshan Jayasinghe

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20 06 2024

[MBA] Brain Drain of Engineers in Sri Lankan IT Industry : Causes and Countermeasures (Defence)

Dhanujaya Wijesinghe

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19 06 2024

Multilingual Word Embedding Alignment for Sinhala (Defence)

Kasun Wickramasinghe

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18 06 2024

Multilingual Word Embedding Alignment for Sinhala (Practice)

Kasun Wickramasinghe

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18 06 2024

Sustained Context-Aware Image Generation for the Dungeons & Dragons Domain (Defence)

Gayashan Weerasundara

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12 06 2024

Domain-Specific Sentiment Analysis in Textual Feedback: AI-Powered Aspect Detection and Sentiment Analysis for Textual Feedback and Reviews

Malkith Vithanage, Koshila Isuranda, Dineth Jayakody

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12 06 2024

Sustained Context-Aware Image Generation for the Dungeons & Dragons Domain (Practice)

Gayashan Weerasundara

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10 06 2024

Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Adventure Generation (Defence)

Akila Peiris

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05 06 2024

Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Adventure Generation (Practice)

Akila Peiris

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05 06 2024

Efficient Few-Shot Learning Without Prompts

Vishal Thenuwara

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29 05 2024

Unmasking Hate: An Integrated Approach to Detecting Hate Speech in Social Media

Pasan Kalansooriya and Thushalya Weerasuriya

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15 05 2024

Analyzing Emotional Responses through Sinhala Comments on Sinhala Music: A Dataset Study

Yomal De Mel

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08 05 2024

Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network

Velayuthan Menan

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24 04 2024

Exploiting Asymmetry for Synthetic Training Data Generation: SynthIE and the Case of Information Extraction

Sivaganeshan Aravinth

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27 03 2024

LLM fine-tuning using Axolotl

Akila Peiris

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20 03 2024

Mistral 7B

Sadeep Gunathilaka

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06 03 2024

Quality Does Matter: A Detailed Look at the Quality and Utility of Web-Mined Parallel Corpora

Velayuthan Menan

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28 02 2024

Aligned Embeddings or Multilingual Embeddings: A Comprehensive Study in Word Embeddings Paradigm

Kasun Wickramasinghe

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21 02 2024

XL-Sum: Large-Scale Multilingual Abstractive Summarization for 44 Languages

Kushan Hewapathirana

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15 02 2024

Explainable Automated Program Repair

Nimantha Cooray, Nethum Lamahewage

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15 02 2024

Context Fusioning Multi Line Patch Generator

Ayesh Vininda, Chathuranga Jayanath, Prasad Sandaruwan

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15 02 2024

A Multi-Stage Approach to Image Consistency in Zero-Shot Character Art Generation for the D&D Domain

Gayashan Weerasundara

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07 02 2024

Domain-Specific Sentiment Analysis in Textual Feedback: AI-Powered Aspect Detection and Sentiment Analysis for Textual Feedback and Reviews

Malkith Vithanage, Koshila Isuranda, Dineth Jayakody

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31 01 2024

Text Summarization using Graph Neural Networks

Thevapalan Anushiya

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31 01 2024

Aspect-based sentiment analysis of Reviews for Requirements Elicitation

Vishal Thenuwara

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31 01 2024

Emotion Recognition through Sinhala Song Comments on YouTube

Yomal De Mel

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31 01 2024

Cohesive D&D Encounter Generator: creating cohesive D&D encounters with monsters and situations that align with the lore

Sivaganeshan Aravinth

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17 01 2024

Task-Aware Representation of Sentences for Generic Text Classification

Sivaganeshan Aravinth

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03 01 2024

AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation

Akila Peiris

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01 12 2023

Sinhala-English Word Embedding Alignment: Introducing Datasets and Benchmark for a Low Resource Language

Kasun Wickramasinghe

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17 11 2023

PromptSource: An Integrated Development Environment and Repository for Natural Language Prompts

Sadeep Gunathilaka

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25 10 2023

Enhancing Multi-Document Summarization with Cross-Document Graph-based Information Extraction

Kushan Hewapathirana

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18 10 2023

A Multi-Stage Approach to Achieving Image Consistency in a Zero Shot Character Generation in D&D domain

Gayashan Weerasundara

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11 10 2023

Fine Tuning Named Entity Extraction Models for the Fantasy Domain

Sivaganeshan Aravinth

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04 10 2023

Sinhala-English Word Embedding Alignment: Introducing Datasets and Benchmark for a Low Resource Language

Kasun Wickramasinghe

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27 09 2023

LangChain and Agents

Akila Peiris

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20 09 2023

SELF-INSTRUCT: Aligning Language Models with Self-Generated Instructions

Sadeep Gunathilaka

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06 09 2023

LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

Velayuthan Menan

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30 08 2023

Comparative Analysis of Named Entity Recognition in the Dungeons and Dragons Domain

Gayashan Weerasundara

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23 08 2023

CorefQA: Coreference Resolution as Query-based Span Prediction

Sivaganeshan Aravinth

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16 08 2023

Multi-document Summarization: A Comparative Evaluation

Kushan Hewapathirana

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16 08 2023

Sinhala-English Parallel Word Dictionary Dataset

Kasun Wickramasinghe

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09 08 2023

SHADE: Semantic Hypernym Annotator for Domain-specific Entities - Dungeons and Dragons Domain Use Case

Akila Peiris

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02 08 2023

Sinhala-English Word Embedding Alignment: Introducing Datasets and Benchmark for a Low Resource Language

Kasun Wickramasinghe

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19 07 2023

Efficient Few-Shot Fine-Tuning for Opinion Summarization

Kushan Hewapathirana

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12 07 2023

Mobile Application User Review-Based Feature Request and Bug Discovery

Sadeep Gunathilaka

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21 06 2023

Synthesizing Coherent Story with Auto-Regressive Latent Diffusion Models

Anusha Lokumarambage

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14 06 2023

Graph Neural Networks - Part 1

Velayuthan Menan

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07 06 2023

Symbolic Discovery of Optimization Algorithms

Gayashan Weerasundara

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31 05 2023

Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language Processing

Dushan Kumarasinghe

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17 05 2023

Multi-Domain Low Resource Language Neural Machine Translation

Velayuthan Menan

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10 05 2023

Better Question-Answering Models on a Budget

Akila Peiris

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26 04 2023

Exploring Cross-sentence Contexts for Named Entity Recognition with BERT

Sivaganeshan Aravinth

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29 03 2023

Multilingual Word Embedding Alignment for Sinhala

Kasun Wickramasinghe

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29 03 2023

Sustained Context-Aware Image Generation for the Dungeons & Dragons Domain

Gayashan Weerasundara

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29 03 2023

A Novel Approach to Multi-Document Summarization with Sentiment Analysis

Kushan Hewapathirana

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15 03 2023

Generating illustrations for literature by text summarization

Anusha Lokumarambage

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08 03 2023

Do Multi-Document Summarization Models Synthesize?

Kushan Hewapathirana

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01 03 2023

InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions

Gayashan Weerasundara

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16 02 2023

Data Annotation App for Dungeons and Dragons Entities

Akila Peiris

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09 02 2023

Sinhala-English Parallel Word Dictionary Dataset

Kasun Wickramasinghe

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02 02 2023

GameWikiSum: a Novel Large Multi-Document Summarization Dataset

Sadeep Gunathilaka

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12 01 2023

The Computational Linguistics Summarization Pilot Task

Dushan Kumarasinghe

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15 12 2022

A Novel Approach to Multi-Document Summarization with Sentiment Analysis

Kushan Hewapathirana

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01 12 2022

Fantasy Image generation relevant to the context of a given D&D adventure

Gayashan Weerasundara

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24 11 2022

Short Comparative Analysis on Pretrained BART and RoBERTa in Detecting Hate Speech on YouTube and Reddit Platforms (WiNLP 2022 Poster Presentation)

Dinuja Perera

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10 11 2022

Synthesis and Evaluation of a Domain-specific Large Data Set for Dungeons & Dragons (WiNLP 2022 Poster Presentation)

Akila Peiris

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03 11 2022

Multi-document Summarization via Deep Learning Techniques: A Survey

Sadeep Gunathilaka

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27 10 2022

Automatic Generation of Abstracts for Research Papers (ROCLING 2022)

Dushan Kumarasinghe

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20 10 2022

Multilingual Embedding Alignment

Kasun Wickramasinghe

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06 10 2022

Hate Speech Detection using Transformer Ensembles on the HASOC dataset

Dinuja Perera

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15 09 2022

Synthesis and Evaluation of a Domain-specific Large Data Set for Dungeons & Dragons

Akila Peiris

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15 09 2022

Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis on Mobile Application Reviews

Sadeep Gunathilaka

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08 09 2022

Automatic Generation of Abstracts for Research Papers

Dushan Kumarasinghe

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01 09 2022

Escaping the Big Data Paradigm with Compact Transformers

Akila Peiris

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18 08 2022

Convolutional Neural Network Based Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis of Apps Reviews for Requirements Elicitation

Sadeep Gunathilaka

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11 08 2022

TOKEN: Task Decomposition and Knowledge Infusion for Few-Shot Hate Speech Detection

Dinuja Perera

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28 07 2022

Automatic Generation of Introduction and Abstract for Research Papers - GPT Neo as a Summarizer

Dushan Kumarasinghe

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21 07 2022

Text Infilling: Missing Text Generation

Akila Peiris

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14 07 2022

Convolutional Neural Network Based Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis of Apps Reviews for Requirements Elicitation

Sadeep Gunathilaka

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30 06 2022

A Systematic Evaluation of Large Language Models of Code

Dinuja Perera

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13 06 2022

Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training

Dushan Kumarasinghe

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06 06 2022

Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners

Akila Peiris

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31 05 2022

AWARE: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Dataset of Apps Reviews for Requirements Elicitation

Sadeep Gunathilaka

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23 05 2022

Oppositeness-based Hate Speech Detection

Dinuja Perera

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16 05 2022

Automatic Generation of Introduction and Abstract for Research Papers

Dushan Kumarasinghe

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02 05 2022

Dungeons and Dragons Fantasy Adventure Generation: Text Generation

Akila Peiris

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25 04 2022

Predicting the Winning Party of a Legal Case by Analyzing Legal Opinion Documents - FYP Project Final Presentation

Lakith Rambukkanage, Ashan Silva, Sahan Jayasinghe

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18 04 2022

Facebook Reaction Prediction for Sinhala Text - FYP Project Final Presentation

Vihanga Jayawickrama, Gihan Weeraprameshwara

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11 04 2022

Mobile Application User Review Based Feature Request and Bug Discovery

Sadeep Gunathilaka

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28 03 2022

Hate Speech Detection using Deep Neural Networks

Dinuja Perera

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21 03 2022

Automatic Generation of Introduction and Abstract for Research Papers

Dushan Kumarasinghe

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14 03 2022

Critical Sentence Identification in Legal Cases Using Multi-Class Classification

Lakith Rambukkanage, Sahan Jayasinghe

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07 03 2022

DnD Fantasy Adventure Generation

Akila Peiris

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28 02 2022

Summary of Research and Future Direction

Nisansa de Silva

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21 02 2022

Sentiment Analysis with Deep Learning Models: A Comparative Study on a Decade of Sinhala Language Facebook Data

Gihan Weeraprameshwara

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14 02 2022

Mobile Application User Review Based Feature Request and Bug Discovery

Sadeep Gunathilaka

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07 02 2022

Oppositeness-based Hate Speech Detection

Dinuja Perera

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31 01 2022

Automatic Generation of Introduction and Abstract for Research Papers

Dushan Kumarasinghe

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24 01 2022

A Dungeons and Dragons Data Set

Akila Peiris

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17 01 2022

Party-based Sentiment Analysis Pipeline for the Legal Domain

Lakith Rambukkanage, Sahan Jayasinghe

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10 01 2022

Seeking Sinhala Sentiment: Predicting Facebook Reactions of Sinhala Posts

Vihanga Jayawickrama, Gihan Weeraprameshwara

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