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NSina: A News Corpus for Sinhala. /
Hettiarachchi, Hansi; Dola Mullage, Damith; Uyangodage, Lasitha et al.
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). ed. / Nicoletta Calzolari; Min-Yen Kan; Veronique Hoste; Alessandro Lenci; Sakriani Sakti; Nianwen Xue. ELRA and ICCL, 2024. p. 12307-12312.
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Harvard
Hettiarachchi, H, Dola Mullage, D, Uyangodage, L
& Ranasinghe, T 2024,
NSina: A News Corpus for Sinhala. in N Calzolari, M-Y Kan, V Hoste, A Lenci, S Sakti & N Xue (eds),
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). ELRA and ICCL, pp. 12307-12312, The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, Torino, Italy,
20/05/24. <
https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1076/>
APA
Hettiarachchi, H., Dola Mullage, D., Uyangodage, L.
, & Ranasinghe, T. (2024).
NSina: A News Corpus for Sinhala. In N. Calzolari, M.-Y. Kan, V. Hoste, A. Lenci, S. Sakti, & N. Xue (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) (pp. 12307-12312). ELRA and ICCL.
https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1076/
Vancouver
Hettiarachchi H, Dola Mullage D, Uyangodage L
, Ranasinghe T.
NSina: A News Corpus for Sinhala. In Calzolari N, Kan MY, Hoste V, Lenci A, Sakti S, Xue N, editors, Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). ELRA and ICCL. 2024. p. 12307-12312
Author
Hettiarachchi, Hansi ; Dola Mullage, Damith ; Uyangodage, Lasitha et al. /
NSina : A News Corpus for Sinhala. Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). editor / Nicoletta Calzolari ; Min-Yen Kan ; Veronique Hoste ; Alessandro Lenci ; Sakriani Sakti ; Nianwen Xue. ELRA and ICCL, 2024. pp. 12307-12312
Bibtex
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title = "NSina: A News Corpus for Sinhala",
abstract = "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 especially evident in low-resource languages, such as Sinhala, which face two primary challenges: the lack of substantial training data and limited benchmarking datasets. In response, this study introduces NSina, a comprehensive news corpus of over 500,000 articles from popular Sinhala news websites, along with three NLP tasks: news media identification, news category prediction, and news headline generation. The release of NSina aims to provide a solution to challenges in adapting LLMs to Sinhala, offering valuable resources and benchmarks for improving NLP in the Sinhala language. NSina is the largest news corpus for Sinhala, available up to date.",
author = "Hansi Hettiarachchi and {Dola Mullage}, Damith and Lasitha Uyangodage and Tharindu Ranasinghe",
year = "2024",
month = may,
day = "20",
language = "English",
isbn = "9782493814104",
pages = "12307--12312",
editor = "Nicoletta Calzolari and Min-Yen Kan and Veronique Hoste and Alessandro Lenci and Sakriani Sakti and Nianwen Xue",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)",
publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
note = " The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 ; Conference date: 20-05-2024 Through 25-05-2024",
url = "https://lrec-coling-2024.org/",
}
RIS
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AU - Ranasinghe, Tharindu
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SN - 9782493814104
SP - 12307
EP - 12312
BT - Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
A2 - Calzolari, Nicoletta
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A2 - Hoste, Veronique
A2 - Lenci, Alessandro
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