淘料视频

Dr Surangika Ranathunga staff profile picture

Contact details +6492136151

Dr Surangika Ranathunga PhD

Senior Lecturer

Doctoral Co-Supervisor
School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences

Dr Surangika Ranathunga is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences. She holds a PhD from University of Otago. Her research interests include Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. She is particularly interested in low-resource language computing. She was a recipient of Googe Award for Inclusion Research, 2022.

Professional

Contact details

  • Location: 317, SMCS
    Campus: Albany

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy - University of Otago (2014)

Certifications and Registrations

  • Licence, Co-Supervisor, 淘料视频

Research Expertise

Research Interests

Natural Language Proessing

Machine Learning

Thematics

21st Century Citizenship

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing (080100): Information And Computing Sciences (080000): Natural Language Processing (080107): Pattern Recognition and Data Mining (080109)

Research Outputs

Journal

Udawatta, P., Udayangana, I., Gamage, C., Shekhar, R., & Ranathunga, S. (2024). Use of prompt-based learning for code-mixed and code-switched text classification. World Wide Web. 27(5)
[Journal article]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read article at Massey Research Online:
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
Rathnayake, H., Sumanapala, J., Rukshani, R., & Ranathunga, S. (2024). AdapterFusion-based multi-task learning for code-mixed and code-switched text classification. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 127
[Journal article]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
4
Dhananjaya, V., Ranathunga, S., & Jayasena, S. (2024). Lexicon-based fine-tuning of multilingual language models for low-resource language sentiment analysis. CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology.
[Journal article]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read article at Massey Research Online:
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
Fernando, A., Ranathunga, S., Sachintha, D., Piyarathna, L., & Rajitha, C. (2023). Exploiting bilingual lexicons to improve multilingual embedding-based document and sentence alignment for low-resource languages. Knowledge and Information Systems. 65(2), 571-612
[Journal article]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
4
Ranathunga, S., Lee, ESA., Prifti Skenduli, M., Shekhar, R., Alam, M., & Kaur, R. (2023). Neural Machine Translation for Low-resource Languages: A Survey. ACM Computing Surveys. 55(11)
[Journal article]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
94

view more...

Rathnayake, H., Sumanapala, J., Rukshani, R., & Ranathunga, S. (2022). Adapter-based fine-tuning of pre-trained multilingual language models for code-mixed and code-switched text classification. Knowledge and Information Systems. 64(7), 1937-1966
[Journal article]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
11
Ranathunga, S., & Liyanage, IU. (2021). Sentiment Analysis of Sinhala News Comments. ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing. 20(4)
[Journal article]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
13
Bhattacharyya, P., Murthy, H., Ranathunga, S., & Munasinghe, R. (2019). Indic language computing. Communications of the ACM. 62(11), 70-75
[Journal article]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
8
Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (2012). Identifying events taking place in second life virtual environments. Applied Artificial Intelligence. 26(1-2), 137-181
[Journal article]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
12

view less...

Conference

Ranathunga, S., de Silva, N., Jayakody, D., & Fernando, A.Shoulders of Giants: A Look at the Degree and Utility of Openness in NLP Research. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. (pp. 519 - 529). 0736-587X.
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
Su, T., Peng, X., Thillainathan, S., Guzmán, D., Ranathunga, S., & Lee, ESA.Unlocking Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Low-Resource Language Translation. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024 - Findings. (pp. 4217 - 4225).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
Ranathunga, S., de Silva, N., Velayuthan, M., Fernando, A., & Rathnayake, C.Quality Does Matter: A Detailed Look at the Quality and Utility of Web-Mined Parallel Corpora. EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference. (pp. 860 - 880).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
1
Dhananjaya, V., Demotte, P., Ranathunga, S., & Jayasena, S.BERTifying Sinhala - A Comprehensive Analysis of Pre-trained Language Models for Sinhala Text Classification. 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022. (pp. 7377 - 7385).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
6
Rajapaksha, S., & Ranathunga, S.Aspect Detection in Sportswear Apparel Reviews for Opinion Mining. MERCon 2022 - Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, Proceedings.
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
2

view more...

Nilanga, K., Herath, M., Maduwantha, H., & Ranathunga, S.Dataset and Baseline for Automatic Student Feedback Analysis. 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022. (pp. 2042 - 2049).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
1
Lee, ESA., Thillainathan, S., Nayak, S., Ranathunga, S., Adelani, DI., Su, R., . . . McCarthy, AD.Pre-Trained Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Models: A Hope for Low-Resource Language Translation?. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. (pp. 58 - 67). 0736-587X.
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
26
Niyarepola, K., Athapaththu, D., Ekanayake, S., & Ranathunga, S.Math Word Problem Generation with Multilingual Language Models. 15th International Natural Language Generation Conference, INLG 2022. (pp. 144 - 155).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
Thillainathan, S., Ranathunga, S., & Jayasena, S.Fine-tuning self-supervised multilingual sequence-to-sequence models for extremely low-resource NMT. MERCon 2021 - 7th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, Proceedings. (pp. 432 - 437).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
7
Liyanage, A., Ranathunga, S., & Jayasena, S.Bilingual lexical induction for sinhala-English using cross lingual embedding spaces. MERCon 2021 - 7th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, Proceedings. (pp. 579 - 584).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
Epaliyana, K., Ranathunga, S., & Jayasena, S.Improving back-translation with iterative filtering and data selection for Sinhala-English NMT. MERCon 2021 - 7th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, Proceedings. (pp. 438 - 443).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
3
Nilaxan, S., & Ranathunga, S.Monolingual sentence similarity measurement using siamese neural networks for Sinhala and Tamil languages. MERCon 2021 - 7th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, Proceedings. (pp. 567 - 572).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
Dilrukshi, T., & Ranathunga, S.STHITHIKA: Distributed complex event processing with query rewriting. MERCon 2021 - 7th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, Proceedings. (pp. 705 - 710).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
Weerakoon, C., & Ranathunga, S.Question classification for the travel domain using deep contextualized word embedding models. MERCon 2021 - 7th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, Proceedings. (pp. 573 - 578).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
Chaturanga, S., & Ranathunga, S.Classification of Code-Mixed Text Using Capsule Networks. International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP. (pp. 256 - 263). 1313-8502.
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
6
Rajitha, C., Piyarathne, L., Sachintha, D., & Ranathunga, S.Metric Learning in Multilingual Sentence Similarity Measurement for Document Alignment. International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP. (pp. 1150 - 1157). 1313-8502.
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
2
Jayasinghe, I., & Ranathunga, S.Two-Step Memory Networks for Deep Semantic Parsing of Geometry Word Problems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). (pp. 676 - 685). 0302-9743.
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
2
Faathima Fayaza, MS., & Ranathunga, S.Tamil News Clustering Using Word Embeddings. MERCon 2020 - 6th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, Proceedings. (pp. 277 - 282).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
1
Demotte, P., Senevirathne, L., Karunanayake, B., Munasinghe, U., & Ranathunga, S.Sentiment Analysis of Sinhala News Comments using Sentence-State LSTM Networks. MERCon 2020 - 6th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, Proceedings. (pp. 283 - 288).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
14
Azeez, R., & Ranathunga, S.Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition for Sinhala. MERCon 2020 - 6th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, Proceedings. (pp. 295 - 300).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
2
Liyanage, V., & Ranathunga, S.Multi-lingual mathematical word problem generation using long short term memory networks with enhanced input features. LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings. (pp. 4709 - 4716).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
4
Lakmal, D., Ranathunga, S., Peramuna, S., & Herath, I.Word embedding evaluation for Sinhala. LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings. (pp. 1874 - 1881).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
13
Karunanayake, B., Munasinghe, U., Demotte, P., Senevirathne, L., & Ranathunga, S.Sinhala sentiment lexicon generation using word similarity. 20th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, ICTer 2020 - Proceedings. (pp. 77 - 82).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
2
Tennage, P., Sandaruwan, P., Thilakarathne, M., Herath, A., & Ranathunga, S.Handling rare word problem using synthetic training data for Sinhala and Tamil neural machine translation. LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. (pp. 1649 - 1653).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
4
Farhath, F., Theivendiram, P., Ranathunga, S., Jayasena, S., & Dias, G.Improving domain-specific SMT for low-resourced languages using data from different domains. LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. (pp. 3789 - 3794).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
6
Thayaparan, M., Ranathunga, S., & Thayasivam, U.Graph based semi-supervised learning for Tamil POS tagging. LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. (pp. 3955 - 3960).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
5
Chathuranga, J., Ediriweera, S., Hasantha, R., Munasinghe, P., & Ranathunga, S.Annotating opinions and opinion targets in student course feedback. LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. (pp. 2684 - 2688).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
4
Rajpirathap, S., & Ranathunga, S.Model Answer Generation for Word-Type Questions in Elementary Mathematics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). (pp. 17 - 28). 0302-9743.
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
1
Fernando, K., Ranathunga, S., & Dias, G.Mathematical Expression Extraction from Unstructured Plain Text. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). (pp. 312 - 320). 0302-9743.
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
Kumarage, T., Ranathunga, S., Kuruppu, C., De Silva, N., & Ranawaka, M.Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) based Anomaly Detection in Industrial Software Systems. MERCon 2019 - Proceedings, 5th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference. (pp. 43 - 48).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
7
Karunanayake, Y., Thayasivam, U., & Ranathunga, S.Transfer learning based free-form speech command classification for low-resource languages. ACL 2019 - 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop. (pp. 288 - 294).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
17
Liyanage, V., & Ranathunga, S.A Multi-language Platform for Generating Algebraic Mathematical Word Problems. 2019 IEEE 14th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems: Engineering for Innovations for Industry 4.0, ICIIS 2019 - Proceedings. (pp. 332 - 337).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
3
Karunanayake, Y., Thayasivam, U., & Ranathunga, S.Sinhala and Tamil Speech Intent Identification from English Phoneme Based ASR. Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Asian Language Processing, IALP 2019. (pp. 234 - 239).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
15
Geethika, D., Jayasinghe, M., Gunarathne, Y., Gamage, TA., Jayathilaka, S., Ranathunga, S., . . . Perera, S.Anomaly Detection in High-Performance API Gateways. 2019 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation, HPCS 2019. (pp. 995 - 1001).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
5
Prabodha, LHC., Vithanage, WRR., Ranaweera, LT., Dissanayake, DMMAIB., & Ranathunga, S.Monitoring health of large scale software systems using drift detection techniques. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. (pp. 152 - 163). 2194-5357.
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
1
Theivendiram, P., Uthayakumar, M., Nadarasamoorthy, N., Thayaparan, M., Jayasena, S., Dias, G., . . . Ranathunga, S.Named-Entity-Recognition (NER) for tamil language using Margin-Infused Relaxed Algorithm (MIRA). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). (pp. 465 - 476). 0302-9743.
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
1
Nanayakkara, P., & Ranathunga, S.Clustering Sinhala news articles using corpus-based similarity measures. MERCon 2018 - 4th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference. (pp. 437 - 442).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
8
Dewappriya, N., Kankanamge, GU., Wellappili, D., Hevapathige, A., & Ranathunga, S.Unit conflict resolution for automatic math word problem solving. MERCon 2018 - 4th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference. (pp. 191 - 196).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
4
Fernando, S., & Ranathunga, S.Evaluation of different classifiers for Sinhala POS tagging. MERCon 2018 - 4th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference. (pp. 96 - 101).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
10
Tennage, P., Herath, A., Thilakarathne, M., Sandaruwan, P., & Ranathunga, S.Transliteration and byte pair encoding to improve Tamil to Sinhala neural machine translation. MERCon 2018 - 4th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference. (pp. 390 - 395).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
8
Farhath, F., Ranathunga, S., Jayasena, S., & Dias, G.Integration of bilingual lists for domain-specific statistical machine translation for Sinhala-Tamil. MERCon 2018 - 4th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference. (pp. 538 - 543).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
6
Kumarage, T., De Silva, N., Ranawaka, M., Kuruppu, C., & Ranathunga, S.Anomaly detection in industrial software systems using variational autoencoders. ICPRAM 2018 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods. (pp. 440 - 447).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
3
Ranathunga, S., Farhath, F., Thayasivam, U., Jayasena, S., & Dias, G.Si-Ta: Machine Translation of Sinhala and Tamil Official Documents. 2018 National Information Technology Conference, NITC 2018.
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
5
Jihan, N., Senarath, Y., & Ranathunga, S.Aspect extraction from customer reviews using convolutional neural networks. 18th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, ICTer 2018 - Proceedings. (pp. 215 - 220).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
12
Randika, C., & Ranathunga, S.Gathika: A dynamic query distribution mechanism for complex event processing systems. 18th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, ICTer 2018 - Proceedings. (pp. 54 - 61).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
1
Fernando, K., Ranathunga, S., & Dias, G.Answer generation for set type math word problems. 18th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, ICTer 2018 - Proceedings. (pp. 245 - 252).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
1
Hevapathige, A., Wellappili, D., Kankanamge, GU., Dewappriya, N., & Ranathunga, S.A two-phase classifier for automatic answer generation for math word problems. 18th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, ICTer 2018 - Proceedings. (pp. 259 - 264).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
5
Balachandran, K., & Ranathunga, S.Domain-Specific Term Extraction for Concept Identification in Ontology Construction. Proceedings - 2016 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2016. (pp. 34 - 41).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
5
Kadupitiya, JCS., Ranathunga, S., & Dias, G.Automated assessment of multi-step answers for mathematical word problems. 16th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, ICTer 2016 - Conference Proceedings. (pp. 66 - 71).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
6
Wijesinghe, DB., Ranathunga, S., & Dias, G.Computer representation of Venn and Euler diagrams. 16th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, ICTer 2016 - Conference Proceedings. (pp. 100 - 105).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
2
Panchendrarajan, R., Ahamed, N., Sivakumar, P., Murugaiah, B., Ranathunga, S., & Pemasiri, A.Eatery - A multi-aspect restaurant rating system. HT 2017 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. (pp. 225 - 234).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
5
Erabadda, B., Ranathunga, S., & Dias, G.Automatic Identification of Errors in Multi-step Answers to Algebra Questions. Proceedings - IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2017. (pp. 215 - 219).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
3
Ranaweera, L., Vithanage, R., Dissanayake, A., Prabodha, C., & Ranathunga, S.Anomaly detection in complex trading systems. 3rd International Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, MERCon 2017. (pp. 437 - 442).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
3
Kahaduwa, H., Pathirana, D., Arachchi, PL., Dias, V., Ranathunga, S., & Kohomban, U.Question Answering system for the travel domain. 3rd International Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, MERCon 2017. (pp. 449 - 454).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
11
Mendis, C., Lahiru, D., Pamudika, N., Madushanka, S., Ranathunga, S., & Dias, G.Automatic assessment of student answers for geometric theorem proving questions. 3rd International Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, MERCon 2017. (pp. 413 - 418).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
2
Mohamed, MZ., Ihalapathirana, A., Hameed, RA., Pathirennehelage, N., Ranathunga, S., Jayasena, S., . . . Dias, G.Automatic creation of a word aligned Sinhala-Tamil parallel corpus. 3rd International Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, MERCon 2017. (pp. 425 - 430).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
2
Thirunavukkarasu, N., Selvarasa, A., Rajendran, N., Yogalingam, C., Ranathunga, S., & Dias, G.Automatic assessment and error identification of multi-step answers for matrix questions. 3rd International Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, MERCon 2017. (pp. 123 - 128).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
Selvarasa, A., Thirunavukkarasu, N., Rajendran, N., Yogalingam, C., Ranathunga, S., & Dias, G.Short Tamil sentence similarity calculation using knowledge-based and corpus-based similarity measures. 3rd International Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, MERCon 2017. (pp. 443 - 448).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
5
Wijesinghe, DB., Kadupitiya, J., Ranathunga, S., & Dias, G.Automatic Assessment of Student Answers Consisting of Venn and Euler Diagrams. Proceedings - IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2017. (pp. 243 - 247).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
4
Kadupitiya, JCS., Ranathunga, S., & Dias, G.Assessment and Error Identification of Answers to Mathematical Word Problems. Proceedings - IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2017. (pp. 55 - 59).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
2
Wijeweera, B., Dias, G., & Ranathunga, S.Automatic Assessment of Student Answers for Geometric Construction Questions. Proceedings - IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2017. (pp. 238 - 242).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
1
Tennage, P., Sandaruwan, P., Thilakarathne, M., Herath, A., Ranathunga, S., Jayasena, S., . . . Dias, G.Neural machine translation for Sinhala and Tamil languages. Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Asian Language Processing, IALP 2017. (pp. 189 - 192).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
12
Jihan, N., Senarath, Y., Tennekoon, D., Wickramarathne, M., & Ranathunga, S.Multi-domain aspect extraction using support vector machines. Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing, ROCLING 2017. (pp. 308 - 322).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
11
Chathuranga, J., Ediriweera, S., Munasinghe, P., Hasantha, R., & Ranathunga, S.Opinion target extraction for student course feedback. Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing, ROCLING 2017. (pp. 295 - 307).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
1
Udantha, M., Ranathunga, S., & Dias, G.An episode-based approach to identify website user access patterns. ICPRAM 2016 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods. (pp. 343 - 350).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
Mokanarangan, T., Pranavan, T., Megala, U., Nilusija, N., Dias, G., Jayasena, S., . . . Ranathunga, S.Tamil morphological analyzer using support vector machines. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). (pp. 15 - 23). 0302-9743.
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
6
Udantha, M., Ranathunga, S., & Dias, G.Modelling website user behaviors by combining the em and DBSCAN algorithms. 2nd International Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, MERCon 2016. (pp. 168 - 173).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
3
Prakhash, S., Nazick, A., Panchendrarajan, R., Brunthavan, M., Ranathunga, S., & Pemasiri, A.Categorizing food names in restaurant reviews. 2nd International Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, MERCon 2016. (pp. 1 - 5).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
6
Manamini, SAPM., Ahamed, AF., Rajapakshe, RAEC., Reemal, GHA., Jayasena, S., Dias, GV., . . . Ranathunga, S.Ananya - A Named-Entity-Recognition (NER) system for Sinhala language. 2nd International Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, MERCon 2016. (pp. 30 - 35).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
7
Panchendrarajan, R., Murugaiah, B., Prakhash, S., Nazick Ahamed, MN., Ranathunga, S., & Pemasiri, A.Cheap food or friendly staff? Weighting hierarchical aspects in the restaurant domain. 2nd International Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, MERCon 2016. (pp. 24 - 29).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
3
Erabadda, B., Ranathunga, S., & Dias, G.Computer aided evaluation of multi-step answers to Algebra questions. Proceedings - IEEE 16th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2016. (pp. 199 - 201).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
6
Panchendrarajan, R., Ahamed, MNN., Murugaiah, B., Prakhash, S., Ranathunga, S., & Pemasiri, A.Implicit aspect detection in restaurant reviews. Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, WASSA 2016 at the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2016. (pp. 128 - 136).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
22
Cranefield, S., & Ranathunga, S.Handling agent perception in heterogeneous distributed systems: A policy-based approach. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). (pp. 169 - 185). 0302-9743.
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
2
Kumarasinghe, M., Tharanga, G., Weerasinghe, L., Wickramarathna, U., & Ranathunga, S.VISIRI - distributed complex event processing system for handling large number of queries. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). (pp. 230 - 245). 0302-9743.
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
8
Ranathunga, S., & Cranefield, S.Improving situation awareness in intelligent virtual agents. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). (pp. 134 - 148). 0302-9743.
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
9
Cranefield, S., & Ranathunga, S.Embedding agents in business processes using enterprise integration patterns. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). (pp. 97 - 116). 0302-9743.
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
9
Cranefield, S., & Ranathunga, S.Embedding agents in business applications using enterprise integration patterns. 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2013, AAMAS 2013. (pp. 1223 - 1224).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
3
Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M.Integrating expectation monitoring into BDI agents. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). (pp. 74 - 91). 0302-9743.
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
5
Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M.Interfacing a cognitive agent platform with second life. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). (pp. 1 - 21). 0302-9743.
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon
8
Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M.Interfacing a cognitive agent platform with a virtual world: A case study using second life. 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2011, AAMAS 2011. (pp. 1113 - 1114).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Abstract: abstract icon
7
Ranathunga, S.Retrieving abstract information from multi-party conversations. 2014 14th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, ICTer 2014 - Conference Proceedings. (pp. 221 - 227).
[Conference]Authored by: Ranathunga, R.
Read Online:
Read Abstract: abstract icon

view less...

Uncategorised

Susnjak, T., Hwang, P., Reyes, N., Barczak, A., McIntosh, T., & Ranathunga, R.May
[Preprint]Authored by: Ranathunga, R., Reyes, N., Susnjak, T.
Read Online:

Consultancy and Languages

Languages

  • English
    Last used: present
    Spoken ability: Excellent
    Written ability: Excellent
  • Sinhala
    Last used: present
    Spoken ability: Excellent
    Written ability: Excellent

Teaching and Supervision

Contact Supervisor

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Co-supervisor 3 0

Current Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

  • Aneesha Weerawarnakurukulasooriya Boosab - Doctor of Philosophy
    Developing Methods to Georeference New Zealand鈥檚 Biota from Text
  • Sameeah Hameed - Doctor of Philosophy
    Geo-spatial Situational Awareness of Disasters Through Social Media Text and Authoritative Data
  • Kalana Wijegunarathna - Doctor of Philosophy
    Developing Methods to Georeference New Zealand鈥檚 Biota from Text

Media and Links

Other Links