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Fact over Fiction: Detection of Pathological Hallucinations in Sinhala-to-English Neural Machine Translation
Navam Obeysekara, Nevidu Jayatilleke
Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models, while capable of producing highly fluent outputs, remain vulnerable to hallucinations, which are translations that are natural yet semantic…
SinBrief: A Hybrid Framework for Abstractive Text Summarisation of Sinhala Legal Documents
Minduli Lasandi, Nevidu Jayatilleke
Legal document summarisation in low-resource languages presents significant challenges due to the scarcity of annotated data and the complexity of domain-specific terminology. This…
PlurVA-LLM-2026 Shared Task Track-1: Pluralistic Value Alignment in LLMs via Multilingual Fine-Tuning and Threshold Calibration
Vihindi Kotalawala, Nevidu Jayatilleke
We present our system for the PlurVA-LLM 2026 Shared Task Track-1, which focuses on pluralistic value alignment in the contexts of China, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka. For this resourc…
Dynamics of Meaning: Towards the Evaluation of Diachronic Semantic Change in Sinhala
Nevidu Jayatilleke, Nisansa de Silva
Tracking semantic change in low-resource languages across extensive historical timelines presents significant challenges due to data scarcity and the limitations of static embeddin…
From Sinhala to Dhivehi: Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Speech Recognition
Lukmal Ilyas, Nevidu Jayatilleke
Dhivehi, the national language of the Maldives, is currently under-resourced for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and other NLP tasks. This study investigates whether cross-lingu…
Cross-Temporal Sinhala OCR: Page-Level Adaptation and Diachronic Analysis
Avisha Dilhara, Nevidu Jayatilleke
Sinhala is a morphologically rich abugida spoken by roughly 16 million people in Sri Lanka, and to date, there are no publicly available real-world datasets for page-level Sinhala…
SiPaKosa: A Comprehensive Corpus of Canonical and Classical Buddhist Texts in Sinhala and Pali
Ranidu Gurusinghe, Nevidu Jayatilleke
SiPaKosa is a comprehensive corpus of Sinhala and Pali doctrinal texts comprising approximately 786K sentences and 9.25M words, incorporating 16 copyright-cleared historical Buddhi…
SiDiaC-v.2.0: Sinhala Diachronic Corpus Version 2.0
Nevidu Jayatilleke, Nisansa de Silva, Uthpala Nimanthi +3
SiDiaC-v.2.0 is the largest comprehensive Sinhala Diachronic Corpus to date, covering a period from 1800 CE to 1955 CE in terms of publication dates, and a historical span from the…
SinFoS: A Parallel Dataset for Translating Sinhala Figures of Speech
Johan Sofalas, Dilushri Pavithra, Nevidu Jayatilleke +1
Figures of Speech (FoS) consist of multi-word phrases that are deeply intertwined with culture. While Neural Machine Translation (NMT) performs relatively well with the figurative…
SiDiaC: Sinhala Diachronic Corpus
Nevidu Jayatilleke, Nisansa de Silva
SiDiaC, the first comprehensive Sinhala Diachronic Corpus, covers a historical span from the 5th to the 20th century CE. SiDiaC comprises 58k words across 46 literary works, annota…
Zero-shot OCR Accuracy of Low-Resourced Languages: A Comparative Analysis on Sinhala and Tamil
Nevidu Jayatilleke, Nisansa de Silva
Solving the problem of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on printed text for Latin and its derivative scripts can now be considered settled due to the volumes of research done on…
A Hybrid Architecture with Efficient Fine Tuning for Abstractive Patent Document Summarization
Nevidu Jayatilleke, Ruvan Weerasinghe
Automatic patent summarization approaches that help in the patent analysis and comprehension procedure are in high demand due to the colossal growth of innovations. The development…
Advancements in Natural Language Processing for Automatic Text Summarization
Nevidu Jayatilleke, Ruvan Weerasinghe, Nipuna Senanayake
The substantial growth of textual content in diverse domains and platforms has led to a considerable need for Automatic Text Summarization (ATS) techniques that aid in the process…