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most citedTowards Offensive Language Identification for Tamil Code-Mixed YouTube Comments and Posts

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cs.CL2026

Evaluation of Contextual Understanding in Large Language Models

Subavarshana Arumugam, Mamta Nallaretnam, Kithuni Wickramasinghe +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive performance across diverse NLP tasks, yet their ability to exhibit genuine contextual understanding remains uncertain. Tradition…

cs.CL2026

EnSiTa - A Trilingual Multi-Domain Parallel Dataset and Benchmark for Domain-Specific Machine Translation

Surangika Ranathunga, Nisansa de Silva, Aloka Fernando +8

Machine Translation (MT) for low-resource languages remains far behind that of high-resource languages, and the gap is widest in specialised domains, where parallel data is scarce…

cs.CL2026

OasisSimp: An Open-source Asian-English Sentence Simplification Dataset

Hannah Liu, Muxin Tian, Iqra Ali +8

Sentence simplification aims to make complex text more accessible by reducing linguistic complexity while preserving the original meaning. However, progress in this area remains li…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

Improving English to Sinhala Neural Machine Translation using Part-of-Speech Tag

Ravinga Perera, Thilakshi Fonseka, Rashmini Naranpanawa +1

The performance of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) depends significantly on the size of the available parallel corpus. Due to this fact, low resource language pairs demonstrate lo…

cs.CL2021★ 9 cited

Adapting the Tesseract Open-Source OCR Engine for Tamil and Sinhala Legacy Fonts and Creating a Parallel Corpus for Tamil-Sinhala-English

Charangan Vasantharajan, Laksika Tharmalingam, Uthayasanker Thayasivam

Most low-resource languages do not have the necessary resources to create even a substantial monolingual corpus. These languages may often be found in government proceedings but ma…

cs.CL2021★ 50 cited

Towards Offensive Language Identification for Tamil Code-Mixed YouTube Comments and Posts

Charangan Vasantharajan, Uthayasanker Thayasivam

Offensive Language detection in social media platforms has been an active field of research over the past years. In non-native English spoken countries, social media users mostly u…

cs.CL2020

Exploring Deep Neural Networks and Transfer Learning for Analyzing Emotions in Tweets

Yasas Senarath, Uthayasanker Thayasivam

In this paper, we present an experiment on using deep learning and transfer learning techniques for emotion analysis in tweets and suggest a method to interpret our deep learning m…

cs.CL2019

Concept Discovery through Information Extraction in Restaurant Domain

Nadeesha Pathirana, Sandaru Seneviratne, Rangika Samarawickrama +4

Concept identification is a crucial step in understanding and building a knowledge base for any particular domain. However, it is not a simple task in very large domains such as re…