PI: Nisansa de Silva
We propose to advance natural language processing for low-resource settings by leveraging data augmentation, transfer learning, and model adaptation techniques to overcome the scarcity of annotated data and linguistic resources.
PI: Nisansa de Silva
We propose to build and analyze Sinhala language resources, datasets, and models to strengthen NLP research for this low-resource language, while connecting it to English and Tamil through bilingual lexicons, embeddings, and cross-lingual methods.
Conference Papers
Kasun Wickramasinghe and Nisansa de Silva, "Sinhala-English Parallel Word Dictionary Dataset", in 2023 IEEE 17th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), 2023, pp. 61--66. doi: 10.1109/ICIIS58898.2023.10253560
