Common Sense Reasoning
PI: Surangika Ranathunga
The Common Sense Reasoning project focuses on advancing culturally grounded evaluation and knowledge representation for language-based artificial intelligence systems.
Projects
Knowledge Representation
PI: Nisansa de Silva
The Knowledge Representation project investigates methods for structuring, aligning, and reasoning over knowledge extracted from language, with particular emphasis on low-resource settings, domain-specific semantics, and intelligent information access.
Socio-Cultural Alignment of Large Language Models
PI: Nisansa de Silva
The proposed research is expected to break new ground by addressing the dual challenges of linguistic complexity and cultural awareness in Sinhala, a low-resource language largely overlooked in LLM research.
People
Publications
Conference Papers
N. H. N. D. de Silva, C. S. N. J. Fernando, M. K. D. T. Maldeniya, D. N. C. Wijeratne, A. S. Perera, and B Goertzel, "SeMap-Mapping Dependency Relationships into Semantic Frame Relationships", in Proceedings of the Engineering Research Unit Symposium, 12. 2011.
Preprints
Nisansa de Silva and Surangika Ranathunga, "Sinhala Physical Common Sense Reasoning Dataset for Global PIQA", arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.02207, 2026. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2602.02207
Tyler A Chang, Catherine Arnett, Abdelrahman Eldesokey, Abdelrahman Sadallah, Abeer Kashar, Abolade Daud, Abosede Grace Olanihun, Adamu Labaran Mohammed, Adeyemi Praise, Adhikarinayum Meerajita Sharma, and others, "Global PIQA: Evaluating Physical Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures", arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.24081, 2025