Purpose-driven software engineer with experience over 2.5 years currently reading for the MSc. in Computer Science specialization in Data Science and Analytics at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Moratuwa. Further, completing the BSc. Specialization in Software Engineering from the SLIIT and the BSc. in Physical Science from the University of Colombo boosted interest in ML, programming, cloud technologies, software life cycle & security, statistics, etc.
Keywords: Natural Language Processing | Machine Learning / Deep Learning |
Journal Papers
Dineth Jayakody, A V A Malkith, Koshila Isuranda, Vishal Thenuwara, Nisansa de Silva, Sachintha Rajith Ponnamperuma, G G N Sandamali, and K L K Sudheera, "Instruct-DeBERTa: A Hybrid Approach for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis on Textual Reviews", ICTer, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 39-50, 2025. doi: 10.4038/icter.v18i2.7290
Conference Papers
Vishal Thenuwara and Nisansa de Silva, "DESS: DeBERTa Enhanced Syntactic-Semantic Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction", in International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, 2025, pp. 185--199. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-09318-9_13
PI: Nisansa de Silva
We propose to advance aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) by developing enhanced models, datasets, and evaluation methods that improve the accuracy and applicability of sentiment classification across multiple domains.
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.