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Trilingual Topic Modeling of Sri Lankan Parliamentary Debates
Himath Dhanapala, Haren Daishika, Himandhi Kuruppu +6
Sri Lankan parliamentary debates (Hansards) constitute a trilingual corpus of speeches in Sinhala, Tamil, and English, including code-mixed content, yet remain inaccessible to stan…
Monsoon Mayhem to Market Waves: Forecasting Fisheries Resilience in Sri Lanka
Ruzaini Ahmed, Yohan Jayasinghe, Tharumini Gamage +6
Sri Lanka's fisheries sector is important for jobs and food supply. Between 2019 and 2025, it faced several major problems at the same time, and how these events together affected…
LKValues: Aligning Large Language Models with Sri Lankan Societal Values
Nethmi Muthugala, Supryadi, Surangika Ranathunga +7
Value alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) has been shown to be culturally biased toward Western norms. This results in the mishandling of local values in multilingual societi…
Environmental Drivers of Respiratory Disease: A District Level Analysis
Rahim Iqbal, Asfi Ahamed, Izzath Nisfer +6
Sri Lanka has experienced a decade of progressive forest degradation and rising atmospheric pollution, yet district-level respiratory admissions have paradoxically declined, pointi…
How Environment and Urbanization Shape Bird Diversity in Sri Lanka
Dilusha Chandrasiri, Maneesha Herath, Yasith Hewarathna +6
This study presents a comprehensive analysis of bird diversity across Sri Lanka by integrating spatial, temporal, and environmental data. Bird observation records were combined wit…
Golden Hour Divide: Trauma Care Accessibility and Resource Vulnerability in Sri Lanka
Sonath Kirindage, Vihanga Nimsara, Sakindu Rajapaksa +6
Timely intensive care dictates survival, yet emergency infrastructure remains unevenly distributed across Sri Lanka. While pre-hospital services have expanded, the transition to de…
Fault of Our Stars: Behavioral Drivers of Rating-Sentiment Incongruence
Ramanaish Abaiyan, Ruththiragayan Sutharsan, Kusal Amantha +7
When people share experiences online, they often express thoughts in two ways: a star rating and a written review. In sentiment analysis, ratings are widely used as convenient weak…
The Remittance Blueprint: Data-driven Intelligence for Sri Lanka
Dhinanjaya Fernando, Dinura Ginige, Kalana Lakshan +6
This study analyzes Sri Lankan migration and remittances over 32 years (1994-2025). Using a 384-month harmonized dataset, we apply exploratory data analysis, stationarity corrected…
When Prices Double in a Week: Forecasting of Agricultural Volatility in Import-Isolated Markets
Ranuga Weerasekara, Heshan Nethmina, Manuja Ranathunga +6
Vegetable prices in Sri Lanka are highly volatile because the market is largely import-isolated, so supply disruptions quickly drive prices up. This study develops a machine learni…
Sinhala Physical Common Sense Reasoning Dataset for Global PIQA
Nisansa de Silva, Surangika Ranathunga
This paper presents the first-ever Sinhala physical common sense reasoning dataset created as part of Global PIQA. It contains 110 human-created and verified data samples, where ea…