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LMSpell: Spell Correction with Pre-Trained Language Models
Akesh Gunathilake, Nadil Karunarathna, Tharusha Bandaranayake +3
Spell correction is still a challenging problem for many languages, especially low-resource languages (LRLs). While pre-trained language models (PLMs) have been employed for spell…
GeeSanBhava: Sentiment Tagged Sinhala Music Video Comment Data Set
Yomal De Mel, Nisansa de Silva
This study introduce GeeSanBhava, a high-quality data set of Sinhala song comments extracted from YouTube manually tagged using Russells Valence-Arousal model by three independent…
How Good is BLI as an Alignment Measure: A Study in Word Embedding Paradigm
Kasun Wickramasinghe, Nisansa de Silva
Sans a dwindling number of monolingual embedding studies originating predominantly from the low-resource domains, it is evident that multilingual embedding has become the de facto…
DESS: DeBERTa Enhanced Syntactic-Semantic Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction
Vishal Thenuwara, Nisansa de Silva
Fine-grained sentiment analysis faces ongoing challenges in Aspect Sentiment Triple Extraction (ASTE), particularly in accurately capturing the relationships between aspects, opini…
Global PIQA: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures
Tyler A. Chang, Catherine Arnett, Abdelrahman Sadallah +377
To date, there exist almost no culturally-specific evaluation benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) that cover a large number of languages and cultures. In this paper, we pre…
ScheduleMe: Multi-Agent Calendar Assistant
Oshadha Wijerathne, Amandi Nimasha, Dushan Fernando +2
Recent advancements in LLMs have contributed to the rise of advanced conversational assistants that can assist with user needs through natural language conversation. This paper pre…
Utilizing Multilingual Encoders to Improve Large Language Models for Low-Resource Languages
Imalsha Puranegedara, Themira Chathumina, Nisal Ranathunga +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in English, but their performance degrades significantly on low-resource languages (LRLs) due to English-centric training. While methods like Lan…
Evolution of Cooperation in LLM-Agent Societies: A Preliminary Study Using Different Punishment Strategies
Kavindu Warnakulasuriya, Prabhash Dissanayake, Navindu De Silva +4
The evolution of cooperation has been extensively studied using abstract mathematical models and simulations. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) and the rise of LLM ag…
Improving the quality of Web-mined Parallel Corpora of Low-Resource Languages using Debiasing Heuristics
Aloka Fernando, Nisansa de Silva, Menan Velyuthan +2
Parallel Data Curation (PDC) techniques aim to filter out noisy parallel sentences from web-mined corpora. Ranking sentence pairs using similarity scores on sentence embeddings der…
Linguistic Analysis of Sinhala YouTube Comments on Sinhala Music Videos: A Dataset Study
W. M. Yomal De Mel, Nisansa de Silva
This research investigates the area of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and Music Emotion Recognition (MER) in relation to Sinhala songs, an underexplored field in music studies.…