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Dr. Nisansa de Silva

Senior Lecturer at University of Moratuwa

PhD (UO), MS (UO), Bsc Eng. (Hons) (Moratuwa)

NisansaDdS@cse.mrt.ac.lk

http://nisansads.staff.uom.lk/


Nisansa de Silva is a senior lecturer at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He obtained his Ph.D (2020, advisor: Dejing Dou) and MS (2016) degrees in Computer and Information Science from University of Oregon, USA and his BSc (Hons) in Computer Science & Engineering (2011) degree from University of Moratuwa. He joined University of Moratuwa as a lecturer in 2011. From 2013 to 2014, he worked as a researcher at LIRNEasia. In 2018, he worked as a Givens Associate at Argonne National Laboratory, USA. Eng. Dr. de Silva has over 50 peer reviewed publications in the field of computer science, mostly under the subfields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence, earning more than 800 citations. He is also an associate member of the IESL.

Keywords: Natural Language Processing | Machine Learning / Deep Learning | Ontologies | Big Data | Bioinformatics | Sinhala | Law | Education | DnD | Sentiment Analysis | Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis | Information Extraction | Legal Domain | Legal Party Identification | Named Entity Recognition | Social Media | Semantic Similarity | Low-resource Languages | Word Embedding | Word2vec | Coreference Resolution | WordNet | LLM | Data Annotation | Legal Information Extraction | Word Embeddings | Multilingual | Semantic Oppositeness | Information Retrieval | Multi-document summarization | Text Classification | Crowdsourcing | Mobile App Review Analysis | Transfer Learning | Software Evolution | Neural Networks | Corpus | Pre-trained Models | Ontology Development | Biomedical Ontology | Non-coding RNA | Automated Program Repair | Ontology Population |




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Grants

2022
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2023
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Multi-domain Neural Machine Translation (NMT) System for Sinhala, Tamil, and English
$35,000 - Google/2022
We propose to create a multi-domain Neural Machine Translation (NMT) System for Sinhala, Tamil, and English, the official languages of Sri Lanka.
2022
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2023
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Data Sets and Benchmark for Interactive Collaborative Storytelling Text Generation
Rs 300,000 - SRC/ST/2022/01
We propose to create annotated data sets for the purpose of establishing a benchmark for interactive collaborative storytelling text generation. (Specifically in the TTRPG Dungeons & Dragons).

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