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Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe

Lecturer in Security and Protection Science

  1. 2023
  2. Published

    Target-Based Offensive Language Identification

    Zampieri, M., Morgan, S., North, K., Simmons, A., Khandelwal, P., Ranasinghe, T., Rosenthal, S. & Nakov, P., 14/07/2023, Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Stroudsberg, Pa.: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Anthology), p. 762-770 9 p.

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  3. Published

    Offensive language identification with multi-task learning

    Zampieri, M., Ranasinghe, T., Sarkar, D. & Ororbia, A., 30/06/2023, In: Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. 60, p. 613–630 17 p.

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  4. Published

    Automatic Generation of Multiple-Choice Test Items from Paragraphs Using Deep Neural Networks

    Mitkov, R., Ha, L. A., Maslak, H., Ranasinghe, T. & Sosoni, V., 5/06/2023, Advancing Natural Language Processing in Educational Assessment. Yaneva, V. & von Davier, M. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 77-89 13 p. (NCME APPLICATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT).

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  5. 2022
  6. Published

    ALEXSIS-PT: A New Resource for Portuguese Lexical Simplification

    North, K., Zampieri, M. & Ranasinghe, T., 12/10/2022, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. International Committee on Computational Linguistics, p. 6057-6062 6 p. (COLING Proceedings; vol. 2022).

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  7. Published

    Predicting the type and target of offensive social media posts in Marathi

    Zampieri, M., Ranasinghe, T., Chaudhari, M., Sampatrao Gaikwad, S., Krishna, P., Nene, M. & Paygude , S., 9/07/2022, In: Social Network Analysis and Mining . 12, 77.

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  8. Published

    Biographical Semi-Supervised Relation Extraction Dataset

    Plum, A., Ranasinghe, T., Jones, S., Orasan, C. & Mitkov, R., 7/07/2022, Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 3121-3130 10 p.

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  9. Published

    Overview of the HASOC Subtrack at FIRE 2021: Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in English and Indo-Aryan Languages and Conversational Hate Speech

    Modha, S., Shahi, G. K., Mandl, T., Madhu, H., Satapara, S., Ranasinghe, T. & Zampieri, M., 26/01/2022, Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 1-3 3 p.

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  10. Published

    Multilingual Offensive Language Identification for Low-resource Languages

    Ranasinghe, T. & Zampieri, M., 1/01/2022, In: ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP). 21, 1, p. 4:1-4:13 13 p., 4.

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  11. 2021
  12. Published

    Transformer Models for Offensive Language Identification in Marathi

    Nene, M., North, K., Ranasinghe, T. & Zampieri, M., 17/12/2021, Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (working notes). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, p. 273-282 10 p. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; vol. 3159).

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  13. Published

    Semantic textual similarity based on deep learning: Can it improve matching and retrieval for Translation Memory tools?

    Ranasinghe, T., Mitkov, R., Orasan, C. & Quintana, R. C., 8/12/2021, Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age: Recent advances and explorations. Lavid-Lopez, J., Maiz-Arevalo, C. & Zamorano-Mansilla, J. R. (eds.). John Benjamins, p. 101-124 24 p. (Benjamins Translation Library; vol. 158).

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  14. Published

    fBERT: A Neural Transformer for Identifying Offensive Content

    Sarkar, D., Zampieri, M., Ranasinghe, T. & Ororbia, A., 7/11/2021, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021. Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 1792-1798 7 p.

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  15. Published

    Can Multilingual Transformers Fight the COVID-19 Infodemic?

    Uyangodage, L., Ranasinghe, T. & Hettiarachchi, H., 1/09/2021, Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021). INCOMA Ltd, p. 1432-1437 5 p.

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  16. Published

    Cross-lingual Offensive Language Identification for Low Resource Languages: The Case of Marathi

    Sampatrao Gaikwad, S., Ranasinghe, T., Zampieri, M. & Homan, C., 1/09/2021, Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021). INCOMA Ltd, p. 437-443 6 p.

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  17. Published

    WLV-RIT at GermEval 2021: Multitask Learning with Transformers to Detect Toxic, Engaging, and Fact-Claiming Comments

    Morgan, S., Ranasinghe, T. & Zampieri, M., 1/09/2021, Proceedings of the GermEval 2021 Shared Task on the Identification of Toxic, Engaging, and Fact-Claiming Comments. Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 32-38 6 p.

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  18. Published

    WLV-RIT at SemEval-2021 Task 5: A Neural Transformer Framework for Detecting Toxic Spans

    Ranasinghe, T., Sarkar, D., Zampieri, M. & Ororbia, A., 5/08/2021, Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021). Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 833-840 8 p.

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  19. Published

    An Exploratory Analysis of Multilingual Word-Level Quality Estimation with Cross-Lingual Transformers

    Ranasinghe, T., Orasan, C. & Mitkov, R., 1/08/2021, Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 434-440 7 p.

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  20. Published

    Discovering Black Lives Matter Events in the United States: Shared Task 3, CASE 2021

    Giorgi, S., Zavarella, V., Tanev, H., Stefanovitch, N., Hwang, S., Hettiarachchi, H., Ranasinghe, T., Kalyan, V., Tan, P., Tan, S., Andrews, M., Hu, T., Stoehr, N., Re, F. I., Vegh, D., Atzenhofer, D., Curtis, B. & Hürriyetoğlu, A., 1/08/2021, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2021). Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 218-227 9 p.

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  21. Published

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

    Hettiarachchi, H. & Ranasinghe, T., 1/08/2021, Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021). Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 771-779 9 p.

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  22. Published

    An Evaluation of Multilingual Offensive Language Identification Methods for the Languages of India

    Ranasinghe, T. & Zampieri, M., 29/07/2021, In: Information. 12, 8, 12 p., 306.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. Published

    MUDES: Multilingual Detection of Offensive Spans

    Ranasinghe, T. & Zampieri, M., 1/06/2021, NAACL-HLT 2021 - 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Demonstrations. Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 144-152 9 p. (NAACL-HLT 2021 - 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Demonstrations).

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  24. Published

    Transformers to Fight the COVID-19 Infodemic

    Uyangodage, L., Ranasinghe, T. & Hettiarachchi, H., 1/06/2021, Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda. Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 130-135 5 p.

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  25. Published

    Comparing Approaches to Dravidian Language Identification

    Jauhiainen, T., Ranasinghe, T. & Zampieri, M., 1/04/2021, Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects. Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 120-127 7 p.

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  26. 2020
  27. Published

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

    Ranasinghe, T. & Hettiarachchi, H., 1/12/2020, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation. Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 1906-1915

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  28. Published

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

    Hettiarachchi, H. & Ranasinghe, T., 1/12/2020, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation. International Committee on Computational Linguistics, p. 142-149

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  29. Published

    RGCL at SemEval-2020 Task 6: Neural Approaches to DefinitionExtraction

    Ranasinghe, T., Plum, A., Orasan, C. & Mitkov, R., 1/12/2020, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation. Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 717-723

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