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cs.CL2026

APEX-VW: A Document-Level English-Spanish Post-Editing Dataset in the Healthcare Domain

Marie Escribe, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Amal Haddad Haddad +2

Post-Editing (PE) of Machine Translation (MT) output often involves repeating the same lexical and terminological corrections across many segments, especially in specialised and hi…

cs.CL2026

MUNIChus: Multilingual News Image Captioning Benchmark

Yuji Chen, Alistair Plum, Hansi Hettiarachchi +4

The goal of news image captioning is to generate captions by integrating news article content with corresponding images, highlighting the relationship between textual context and v…

cs.CL2025

AHaSIS: Shared Task on Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Dialects

Maram Alharbi, Salmane Chafik, Saad Ezzini +3

The hospitality industry in the Arab world increasingly relies on customer feedback to shape services, driving the need for advanced Arabic sentiment analysis tools. To address thi…

cs.CL2024

Overview of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025)

Hansi Hettiarachchi, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Paul Rayson +5

The first Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025) was held in conjunction with the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

NSINA: A News Corpus for Sinhala

Hansi Hettiarachchi, Damith Premasiri, Lasitha Uyangodage +1

The introduction of large language models (LLMs) has advanced natural language processing (NLP), but their effectiveness is largely dependent on pre-training resources. This is esp…

cs.CL2022★ 14 cited

SOLD: Sinhala Offensive Language Dataset

Tharindu Ranasinghe, Isuri Anuradha, Damith Premasiri +4

The widespread of offensive content online, such as hate speech and cyber-bullying, is a global phenomenon. This has sparked interest in the artificial intelligence (AI) and natura…

cs.CL2022

Event Causality Identification with Causal News Corpus -- Shared Task 3, CASE 2022

Fiona Anting Tan, Hansi Hettiarachchi, Ali Hürriyetoğlu +4

The Event Causality Identification Shared Task of CASE 2022 involved two subtasks working on the Causal News Corpus. Subtask 1 required participants to predict if a sentence contai…

cs.CL2022

Extended Multilingual Protest News Detection -- Shared Task 1, CASE 2021 and 2022

Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Osman Mutlu, Fırat Duruşan +12

We report results of the CASE 2022 Shared Task 1 on Multilingual Protest Event Detection. This task is a continuation of CASE 2021 that consists of four subtasks that are i) docume…

cs.CL2022

The Causal News Corpus: Annotating Causal Relations in Event Sentences from News

Fiona Anting Tan, Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Tommaso Caselli +7

Despite the importance of understanding causality, corpora addressing causal relations are limited. There is a discrepancy between existing annotation guidelines of event causality…

cs.CL2021

Transformers to Fight the COVID-19 Infodemic

Lasitha Uyangodage, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Hansi Hettiarachchi

The massive spread of false information on social media has become a global risk especially in a global pandemic situation like COVID-19. False information detection has thus becom…

cs.CL2021

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

Hansi Hettiarachchi, Tharindu Ranasinghe

Identifying whether a word carries the same meaning or different meaning in two contexts is an important research area in natural language processing which plays a significant role…

cs.CL2020

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

Tharindu Ranasinghe, Hansi Hettiarachchi

In this paper, we describe the team \textit{BRUMS} entry to OffensEval 2: Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media in SemEval-2020. The OffensEval organizers…

cs.CL2020

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

Hansi Hettiarachchi, Tharindu Ranasinghe

Identifying informative tweets is an important step when building information extraction systems based on social media. WNUT-2020 Task 2 was organised to recognise informative twee…

cs.CL2020

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

Hansi Hettiarachchi, Tharindu Ranasinghe

This paper presents the team BRUMS submission to SemEval-2020 Task 3: Graded Word Similarity in Context. The system utilises state-of-the-art contextualised word embeddings, which…