Tharindu Ranasinghe

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∙ 07/18/2023

Can Model Fusing Help Transformers in Long Document Classification? An Empirical Study

Text classification is an area of research which has been studied over t...

0 Damith Premasiri, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/19/2023

Deep Learning Approaches to Lexical Simplification: A Survey

Lexical Simplification (LS) is the task of replacing complex for simpler...

0 Kai North, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/18/2023

Deep Learning Methods for Extracting Metaphorical Names of Flowers and Plants

The domain of Botany is rich with metaphorical terms. Those terms play a...

0 Amal Haddad Haddad, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/29/2023

Vicarious Offense and Noise Audit of Offensive Speech Classifiers

This paper examines social web content moderation from two key perspecti...

0 Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/01/2022

SOLD: Sinhala Offensive Language Dataset

The widespread of offensive content online, such as hate speech and cybe...

0 Tharindu Ranasinghe, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/22/2022

Predicting the Type and Target of Offensive Social Media Posts in Marathi

The presence of offensive language on social media is very common motiva...

0 Marcos Zampieri, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/18/2022

Overview of the HASOC Subtrack at FIRE 2022: Offensive Language Identification in Marathi

The widespread of offensive content online has become a reason for great...

0 Tharindu Ranasinghe, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/19/2022

ALEXSIS-PT: A New Resource for Portuguese Lexical Simplification

Lexical simplification (LS) is the task of automatically replacing compl...

0 Kai North, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/16/2022

Transformer-based Detection of Multiword Expressions in Flower and Plant Names

Multiword expression (MWE) is a sequence of words which collectively pre...

4 Damith Premasiri, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/16/2022

BERT(s) to Detect Multiword Expressions

Multiword expressions (MWEs) present groups of words in which the meanin...

0 Damith Premasiri, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/12/2022

DTW at Qur'an QA 2022: Utilising Transfer Learning with Transformers for Question Answering in a Low-resource Domain

The task of machine reading comprehension (MRC) is a useful benchmark to...

14 Damith Premasiri, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/02/2022

Biographical: A Semi-Supervised Relation Extraction Dataset

Extracting biographical information from online documents is a popular r...

0 Alistair Plum, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/22/2021

Pushing the Right Buttons: Adversarial Evaluation of Quality Estimation

Current Machine Translation (MT) systems achieve very good results on a ...

3 Diptesh Kanojia, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/10/2021

FBERT: A Neural Transformer for Identifying Offensive Content

Transformer-based models such as BERT, XLNET, and XLM-R have achieved st...

0 Diptanu Sarkar, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/08/2021

Cross-lingual Offensive Language Identification for Low Resource Languages: The Case of Marathi

The widespread presence of offensive language on social media motivated ...

0 Saurabh Gaikwad, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/30/2021

WLV-RIT at GermEval 2021: Multitask Learning with Transformers to Detect Toxic, Engaging, and Fact-Claiming Comments

This paper addresses the identification of toxic, engaging, and fact-cla...

0 Skye Morgan, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/31/2021

An Exploratory Analysis of Multilingual Word-Level Quality Estimation with Cross-Lingual Transformers

Most studies on word-level Quality Estimation (QE) of machine translatio...

9 Tharindu Ranasinghe, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/12/2021

Multilingual Offensive Language Identification for Low-resource Languages

Offensive content is pervasive in social media and a reason for concern ...

0 Tharindu Ranasinghe, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/25/2021

Transformers to Fight the COVID-19 Infodemic

The massive spread of false information on social media has become a glo...

0 Lasitha Uyangodage, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/09/2021

TransWiC at SemEval-2021 Task 2: Transformer-based Multilingual and Cross-lingual Word-in-Context Disambiguation

Identifying whether a word carries the same meaning or different meaning...

0 Hansi Hettiarachchi, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/09/2021

WLV-RIT at SemEval-2021 Task 5: A Neural Transformer Framework for Detecting Toxic Spans

In recent years, the widespread use of social media has led to an increa...

0 Tharindu Ranasinghe, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/09/2021

Comparing Approaches to Dravidian Language Identification

This paper describes the submissions by team HWR to the Dravidian Langua...

0 Tommi Jauhiainen, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/18/2021

MUDES: Multilingual Detection of Offensive Spans

The interest in offensive content identification in social media has gro...

0 Tharindu Ranasinghe, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/01/2020

WLV-RIT at HASOC-Dravidian-CodeMix-FIRE2020: Offensive Language Identification in Code-switched YouTube Comments

This paper describes the WLV-RIT entry to the Hate Speech and Offensive ...

0 Tharindu Ranasinghe, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/01/2020

TransQuest: Translation Quality Estimation with Cross-lingual Transformers

Recent years have seen big advances in the field of sentence-level quali...

9 Tharindu Ranasinghe, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/13/2020

RGCL at SemEval-2020 Task 6: Neural Approaches to Definition Extraction

This paper presents the RGCL team submission to SemEval 2020 Task 6: Def...

0 Tharindu Ranasinghe, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/13/2020

BRUMS at SemEval-2020 Task 12 : Transformer based Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media

In this paper, we describe the team BRUMS entry to OffensEval 2: Multili...

0 Tharindu Ranasinghe, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/13/2020

BRUMS at SemEval-2020 Task 3: Contextualised Embeddings forPredicting the (Graded) Effect of Context in Word Similarity

This paper presents the team BRUMS submission to SemEval-2020 Task 3: Gr...

0 Hansi Hettiarachchi, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/11/2020

InfoMiner at WNUT-2020 Task 2: Transformer-based Covid-19 Informative Tweet Extraction

Identifying informative tweets is an important step when building inform...

0 Hansi Hettiarachchi, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/11/2020

Multilingual Offensive Language Identification with Cross-lingual Embeddings

Offensive content is pervasive in social media and a reason for concern ...

0 Tharindu Ranasinghe, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/11/2020

TransQuest at WMT2020: Sentence-Level Direct Assessment

This paper presents the team TransQuest's participation in Sentence-Leve...

0 Tharindu Ranasinghe, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/27/2020

Intelligent Translation Memory Matching and Retrieval with Sentence Encoders

Matching and retrieving previously translated segments from a Translatio...

0 Tharindu Ranasinghe, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/16/2020

Offensive Language Identification in Greek

As offensive language has become a rising issue for online communities a...

0 Zeses Pitenis, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/12/2019

Concept Discovery through Information Extraction in Restaurant Domain

Concept identification is a crucial step in understanding and building a...

0 Nadeesha Pathirana, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/02/2019

User Profile Feature-Based Approach to Address the Cold Start Problem in Collaborative Filtering for Personalized Movie Recommendation

A huge amount of user generated content related to movies is created wit...

0 Lasitha Uyangoda, et al. ∙

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