Items where Author is "Ranasinghe, Tharindu"

Journal Article

Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Nanomi Arachchige, Isuri and Dola Mullage, Damith and Silva, Kanishka and Hettiarachchi, Hansi and Uyangodage, Lasitha and Zampieri, Marcos (2025) SOLD: Sinhala offensive language dataset. Language Resources and Evaluation, 59. pp. 297-337. ISSN 1574-020X

North, Kai and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Shardlow, Matthew and Zampieri, Marcos (2025) Deep learning approaches to lexical simplification : A survey. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 63 (1). pp. 111-134. ISSN 1573-7675

Dmonte, Alphaeus and Satapara, Shrey and Alsudais, Rehab and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Zampieri, Marcos (2025) On the effects of machine translation on offensive language detection. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 14 (1): 242. ISSN 1869-5469

Zampieri, Marcos and Rosenthal, Sara and Nakov, Preslav and Dmonte, Alphaeus and Ranasinghe, Tharindu (2023) OffensEval 2023 : Offensive language identification in the age of Large Language Models. Natural Language Engineering, 29 (6). pp. 1416-1435.

Zampieri, Marcos and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Sarkar, Diptanu and Ororbia, Alex (2023) Offensive language identification with multi-task learning. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 60. 613–630. ISSN 1573-7675

Mitkov, Ruslan and Haddad Haddad, Amal and Dola Mullage, Damith and Ranasinghe, Tharindu (2023) Deep Learning Methods for Extracting Metaphorical Names of Flowers and Plants. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 71. (In Press)

Zampieri, Marcos and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Chaudhari, Mrinal and Sampatrao Gaikwad, Saurabh and Krishna, Prajwal and Nene, Mayuresh and Paygude, Shrunali (2022) Predicting the type and target of offensive social media posts in Marathi. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 12: 77. ISSN 1869-5469

Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Zampieri, Marcos (2022) Multilingual Offensive Language Identification for Low-resource Languages. ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), 21 (1): 4. 4:1-4:13. ISSN 2375-4699

Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Zampieri, Marcos (2021) An Evaluation of Multilingual Offensive Language Identification Methods for the Languages of India. Information, 12 (8): 306. ISSN 2078-2489

Pathirana, Nadeesha and Seneviratne, Sandaru and Samarawickrama, Rangika and Wolff, Shane and Chitraranjan, Charith and Thayasivam, Uthayasanker and Ranasinghe, Tharindu (2019) Concept Discovery through Information Extraction in Restaurant Domain. Computación y Sistemas, 23 (3).

Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings

Hettiarachchi, Hansi and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Rayson, Paul and Mitkov, Ruslan and Gaber, Mohamed Medhat and Dola Mullage, Damith and Tan, Fiona Anting and Uyangodage, Lasitha (2025) Overview of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025). In: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages :. Association for Computational Linguistics, ARE. ISBN 9798891762152

North, Kai and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Shardlow, Matthew and Zampieri, Marcos (2024) MultiLS : An End-to-End Lexical Simplification Framework. In: Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2024) :. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Anthology), Kerrville, pp. 1-11. ISBN 9798891761766

Panditha, Deepak and Weerasooriya, Tharindu and Dutta, Sujan and Luger, Sarah and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and KhudaBukhsh, Ashiqur and Zampieri, Marcos and Homan, Christopher (2024) Rater Cohesion and Quality from a Vicarious Perspective. In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 :. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Anthology), USA, pp. 5149-5162. ISBN 9798891761681

Qian, Shenbin and Sindhujan, Archchana and Kabra, Minnie and Kanojia, Diptesh and Orasan, Constantin and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Blain, Frederic (2024) What do Large Language Models Need for Machine Translation Evaluation? In: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing :. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Anthology), USA, pp. 3660-3674. ISBN 9798891761643

Dmonte, Alphaeus and Arya, Tejas and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Zampieri, Marcos (2024) Towards Generalized Offensive Language Identification. In: Proceedings of the the 16th International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining :. Springer Nature, ITA.

Farabi, Shafkat and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Kanojia, Diptesh and Kong, Yu and Zampieri, Marcos (2024) A Survey of Multimodal Sarcasm Detection. In: Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence :. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, KOR, pp. 8020-8028. ISBN 9781956792041

Shardlow, Matthew and Alva-Manchego, Fernando and Batista-Navarro, Riza Theresa and Bott, Stefan and Calderon Ramirez, Saul and Cardon, Rémi and François, Thomas and Hayakawa, Akio and Horbach, Andrea and Hülsing, Anna and Imperia, Joseph Marvin and Nohej, Adam and Ide, Yusuke and North, Kai and Occhipinti, Laura and Rojas, Nelson Peréz and Raihan, Md Nishat and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Salazar, Martin Solis and Štajner, Sanja and Zampieri, Marcos and Saggion, Horacio (2024) The BEA 2024 Shared Task on the Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline. In: Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024) :. Association for Computational Linguistics, Kerrville, pp. 571-589. ISBN 9798891761001

Raihan, Md Nishat and Goswami, Dhiman and Puspo, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury and Newman, Christian and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Zampieri, Marcos (2024) CSEPrompts : A Benchmark of Introductory Computer Science Prompts. In: Foundations of Intelligent Systems: 27th International Symposium, ISMIS 2024, Poitiers, France, June 17–19, 2024, Proceedings :. Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Springer Nature, FRA, pp. 45-54. ISBN 9783031626999

Furtado, Anna Beatriz Dimas and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Blain, Frederic and Mitkov, Ruslan (2024) DORE : A Dataset for Portuguese Definition Generation. In: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) :. ELRA and ICCL, ITA, pp. 5315-5322. ISBN 9782493814104

Zampieri, Marcos and Dola Mullage, Damith and Ranasinghe, Tharindu (2024) A Federated Learning Approach to Privacy Preserving Offensive Language Identification. In: TRAC-2024: The Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression & Cyberbullying @LREC-COLING-2024 : Workshop proceedings. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). ISBN 9782493814470

Plum, Alistair and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Purschke, Christoph (2024) Guided Distant Supervision for Multilingual Relation Extraction Data : Adapting to a New Language. In: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) :. ELRA and ICCL, ITA, pp. 7982-7992. ISBN 9782493814104

Raihan, Md Nishat and Puspo, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury and Farabi, Shafkat and Bucur, Ana-Maria and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Zampieri, Marcos (2024) MentalHelp : A Multi-Task Dataset for Mental Health in Social Media. In: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) :. ELRA and ICCL, ITA, pp. 11196-11203. ISBN 9782493814104

Hettiarachchi, Hansi and Dola Mullage, Damith and Uyangodage, Lasitha and Ranasinghe, Tharindu (2024) NSina : A News Corpus for Sinhala. In: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) :. ELRA and ICCL, ITA, pp. 12307-12312. ISBN 9782493814104

Raihan, Md Nishat and Tanmoy, Umma and Islam, Anika Binte and North, Kai and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Anastasopoulos, Antonios and Zampieri, Marcos (2023) Offensive Language Identification in Transliterated and Code-Mixed Bangla. In: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2023) :. Association for Computational Linguistics, SGP, pp. 1-6. ISBN 9798891760585

Deoghare, Sourabh and Kanojia, Diptesh and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Blain, Frederic and Bhattacharyya, Pushpak (2023) Quality Estimation-Assisted Automatic Post-Editing. In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 :. Association for Computational Linguistics, SGP, 1686–1698.

Weerasooriya, Tharindu and Dutta, Sujan and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Zampieri, Marcos and Homan, Christopher and KhudaBukhsh, Ashiqur (2023) Vicarious Offense and Noise Audit of Offensive Speech Classifiers : Unifying Human and Machine Disagreement on What is Offensive. In: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing :. Association for Computational Linguistics, SGP, pp. 11648-11668. ISBN 9798891760608

Franklin, Emma and Ranasinghe, Tharindu (2023) Deep Learning Approaches to Detecting Safeguarding Concerns in Schoolchildren’s Online Conversations. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing : RANLP 2023. INCOMA Ltd, BGR, pp. 364-372. ISBN 9789544520922

Hettiarachchi, Hansi and Ranasinghe, Tharindu (2023) Explainable Event Detection with Event Trigger Identification as Rationale Extraction. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing :. INCOMA Ltd, BGR, pp. 507-518. ISBN 9789544520922

Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Plum, Alistair and Purschke, Christoph and Zampieri, Marcos (2023) Publish or Hold? : Automatic Comment Moderation in Luxembourgish News Articles. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing : RANLP 2023. INCOMA Ltd, BGR, pp. 968-978. ISBN 9789544520922

Zampieri, Marcos and Morgan, Skye and North, Kai and Simmons, Austin and Khandelwal, Paridhi and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Rosenthal, Sara and Nakov, Preslav (2023) Target-Based Offensive Language Identification. In: Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics :. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Anthology), Stroudsberg, Pa., pp. 762-770. ISBN 9781959429715

Mitkov, Ruslan and Ha, Le An and Maslak, Halyna and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Sosoni, Vilelmini (2023) Automatic Generation of Multiple-Choice Test Items from Paragraphs Using Deep Neural Networks. In: Advancing Natural Language Processing in Educational Assessment :. NCME APPLICATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT . Routledge, London, pp. 77-89. ISBN 9781032203904

North, Kai and Zampieri, Marcos and Ranasinghe, Tharindu (2022) ALEXSIS-PT : A New Resource for Portuguese Lexical Simplification. In: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics :. COLING Proceedings . International Committee on Computational Linguistics, KOR, pp. 6057-6062.

Plum, Alistair and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Jones, Spencer and Orasan, Constantin and Mitkov, Ruslan (2022) Biographical Semi-Supervised Relation Extraction Dataset. In: Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval :. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ESP, pp. 3121-3130. ISBN 9781450387323

Modha, Sandip and Shahi, Gautam Kishore and Mandl, Thomas and Madhu, Hiren and Satapara, Shrey and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Zampieri, Marcos (2022) Overview of the HASOC Subtrack at FIRE 2021 : Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in English and Indo-Aryan Languages and Conversational Hate Speech. In: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation :. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, pp. 1-3. ISBN 9781450395960

Nene, Mayuresh and North, Kai and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Zampieri, Marcos (2021) Transformer Models for Offensive Language Identification in Marathi. In: Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (working notes) :. CEUR Workshop Proceedings . CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pp. 273-282.

Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Mitkov, Ruslan and Orasan, Constantin and Quintana, Rocío Caro (2021) Semantic textual similarity based on deep learning: Can it improve matching and retrieval for Translation Memory tools? In: Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age: Recent advances and explorations :. Benjamins Translation Library . John Benjamins, pp. 101-124. ISBN 9789027259684

Sarkar, Diptanu and Zampieri, Marcos and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Ororbia, Alex (2021) fBERT: A Neural Transformer for Identifying Offensive Content. In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021 :. Association for Computational Linguistics, DOM, pp. 1792-1798. ISBN 9781955917100

Uyangodage, Lasitha and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Hettiarachchi, Hansi (2021) Can Multilingual Transformers Fight the COVID-19 Infodemic? In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021) :. INCOMA Ltd, BGR, pp. 1432-1437.

Sampatrao Gaikwad, Saurabh and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Zampieri, Marcos and Homan, Christopher (2021) Cross-lingual Offensive Language Identification for Low Resource Languages: The Case of Marathi. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021) :. INCOMA Ltd, BGR, pp. 437-443.

Morgan, Skye and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Zampieri, Marcos (2021) WLV-RIT at GermEval 2021: Multitask Learning with Transformers to Detect Toxic, Engaging, and Fact-Claiming Comments. In: Proceedings of the GermEval 2021 Shared Task on the Identification of Toxic, Engaging, and Fact-Claiming Comments :. Association for Computational Linguistics, DEU, pp. 32-38.

Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Sarkar, Diptanu and Zampieri, Marcos and Ororbia, Alex (2021) WLV-RIT at SemEval-2021 Task 5 : A Neural Transformer Framework for Detecting Toxic Spans. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021) :. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 833-840. ISBN 9781954085701

Giorgi, Salvatore and Zavarella, Vanni and Tanev, Hristo and Stefanovitch, Nicolas and Hwang, Sy and Hettiarachchi, Hansi and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Kalyan, Vivek and Tan, Paul and Tan, Shaun and Andrews, Martin and Hu, Tiancheng and Stoehr, Niklas and Re, Francesco Ignazio and Vegh, Daniel and Atzenhofer, Dennis and Curtis, Brenda and Hürriyetoğlu, Ali (2021) Discovering Black Lives Matter Events in the United States: Shared Task 3, CASE 2021. In: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2021) :. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 218-227.

Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Orasan, Constantin and Mitkov, Ruslan (2021) An Exploratory Analysis of Multilingual Word-Level Quality Estimation with Cross-Lingual Transformers. In: Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers) :. Association for Computational Linguistics, THA, pp. 434-440.

Hettiarachchi, Hansi and Ranasinghe, Tharindu (2021) TransWiC at SemEval-2021 Task 2: Transformer-based Multilingual and Cross-lingual Word-in-Context Disambiguation. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021) :. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 771-779.

Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Zampieri, Marcos (2021) MUDES: Multilingual Detection of Offensive Spans. In: NAACL-HLT 2021 - 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics : Human Language Technologies, Demonstrations. NAACL-HLT 2021 - 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Demonstrations . Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 144-152. ISBN 9781954085480

Uyangodage, Lasitha and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Hettiarachchi, Hansi (2021) Transformers to Fight the COVID-19 Infodemic. In: Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda :. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 130-135.

Jauhiainen, Tommi and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Zampieri, Marcos (2021) Comparing Approaches to Dravidian Language Identification. In: Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects :. Association for Computational Linguistics, UKR, pp. 120-127.

Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Hettiarachchi, Hansi (2020) BRUMS at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Transformer Based Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media. In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation :. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1906-1915.

Hettiarachchi, Hansi and Ranasinghe, Tharindu (2020) BRUMS at SemEval-2020 Task 3: Contextualised Embeddings for Predicting the (Graded) Effect of Context in Word Similarity. In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation :. International Committee on Computational Linguistics, pp. 142-149.

Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Plum, Alistair and Orasan, Constantin and Mitkov, Ruslan (2020) RGCL at SemEval-2020 Task 6: Neural Approaches to DefinitionExtraction. In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation :. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 717-723.

Hettiarachchi, Hansi and Ranasinghe, Tharindu (2020) InfoMiner at WNUT-2020 Task 2: Transformer-based Covid-19 Informative Tweet Extraction. In: Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2020) :. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 359-365.

Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Zampieri, Marcos (2020) Multilingual Offensive Language Identification with Cross-lingual Embeddings. In: Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) :. Association for Computational Linguistics, DOM, pp. 5838-5844.

Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Orasan, Constantin and Mitkov, Ruslan (2020) TransQuest at WMT2020: Sentence-Level Direct Assessment. In: Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation :. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1049-1055.

Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Orasan, Constantin and Mitkov, Ruslan (2020) TransQuest: Translation Quality Estimation with Cross-lingual Transformers. In: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics :. International Committee on Computational Linguistics, ESP, pp. 5070-5081.

Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Orasan, Constantin and Mitkov, Ruslan (2020) Intelligent Translation Memory Matching and Retrieval with Sentence Encoders. In: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation :. European Association for Machine Translation.

Pitenis, Zesis and Zampieri, Marcos and Ranasinghe, Tharindu (2020) Offensive Language Identification in Greek. In: Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference :. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 5113-5119.

Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Zampieri, Marcos and Hettiarachchi, Hansi (2019) BRUMS at HASOC 2019: Deep Learning Models for Multilingual Hate Speech and Offensive Language Identification. In: FIRE Working Notes :. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, IND.

Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Saadany, Hadeel and Plum, Alistair and Al Mandhari, Salim and Mohamed, Emad and Orasan, Constantin and Mitkov, Ruslan (2019) RGCL at IDAT‏ : deep learning models for irony detection in Arabic language. In: ‏Working Notes of FIRE 2019 - Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Kolkata, India, 12th-15th December, 2019. :. CEUR Workshop Proceedings . CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pp. 416-425.

Hettiarachchi, Hansi and Ranasinghe, Tharindu (2019) Emoji Powered Capsule Network to Detect Type and Target of Offensive Posts in Social Media. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019) :. INCOMA Ltd, BGR, pp. 474-480.

Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Orasan, Constantin and Mitkov, Ruslan (2019) Enhancing Unsupervised Sentence Similarity Methods with Deep Contextualised Word Representations. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019) :. INCOMA Ltd, BGR, pp. 994-1003.

Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Orasan, Constantin and Mitkov, Ruslan (2019) Semantic Textual Similarity with Siamese Neural Networks. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019) :. INCOMA Ltd, BGR, pp. 1004-1011.

Plum, Alistair and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Orasan, Constantin (2019) Toponym Detection in the Bio-Medical Domain: A Hybrid Approach with Deep Learning. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019) :. INCOMA Ltd, BGR, pp. 912-921.

Plum, Alistair and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Calleja, Pablo and Orasan, Constantin and Mitkov, Ruslan (2019) RGCL-WLV at SemEval-2019 Task 12: Toponym Detection. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation :. Association for Computational Linguistics, USA, pp. 1297-1301.

Uyangoda, Lasitha and Ahangama, Supunmali and Ranasinghe, Tharindu (2018) User Profile Feature-Based Approach to Address the Cold Start Problem in Collaborative Filtering for Personalized Movie Recommendation. In: 2018 Thirteenth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM) :. IEEE. ISBN 978-1-5386-5245-9

Monograph

Premasiri, Damith and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Mitkov, Ruslan (2023) Can Model Fusing Help Transformers in Long Document Classification? : An Empirical Study. Other. Arxiv.

Premasiri, Damith and Haddad, Amal Haddad and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Mitkov, Ruslan (2022) Transformer-based Detection of Multiword Expressions in Flower and Plant Names. Other. Arxiv.

Premasiri, Damith and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Zaghouani, Wajdi and Mitkov, Ruslan (2022) DTW at Qur'an QA 2022 : Utilising Transfer Learning with Transformers for Question Answering in a Low-resource Domain. Other. Arxiv.