Tharindu Ranasinghe

60 papers · 2019–2026 · 9 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🌍 Conference Polyglot (9) 🏃 Academic Marathon (6) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (13) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (8) 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (82) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 👥 Mega-Team (22) 🏆 Keyword Champion (3) 🤝 Dynamic Duo (26) 🔬 Deep Specialist (16) 🧬 Topic Evolution 🗃️ Keyword Collector (189) 💎 Century Club (57) 🔥 Unstoppable (7) ❓ The Questioner (2) ⚡ Prolific Year (10)

Conferences

COLING (15) EMNLP (13) ACL (10) IJCNLP (6) SEMEVAL (6) EACL (4) NAACL (3) AACL (2) IJCAI (1)

Top co-authors

Marcos Zampieri (27) Hansi Hettiarachchi (16) Ruslan Mitkov (14) Constantin Orasan (12) Kai North (8) Alistair Plum (7) Damith Premasiri (6) Diptesh Kanojia (6) Alphaeus Dmonte (5) Matthew Shardlow (4)

Research topics

Linguistics (1)

Keywords

text classification (19) transformer model (13) low-resource language (9) multilingual nlp (8) machine translation (7) offensive language detection (7) social media (7) transfer learning (7) social media analysis (7) quality estimation (6) multilingual model (6) lexical simplification (6) large language model (5) natural language processing (4) offensive language identification (4) multi-task learning (3) offensive content detection (3) token classification (3) toxic span detection (3) named entity recognition (3)

Papers

A Survey on Multilingual Mental Disorders Detection from Social Media Data EACL 2026

Overview of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) EACL 2026

SmartMatch: Real-Time Semantic Retrieval for Translation Memory Systems EACL 2026

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

Exploring the Performance of Large Language Models on Subjective Span Identification Tasks AACL 2025

Sinhala Encoder-only Language Models and Evaluation ACL 2025

Exploring the Performance of Large Language Models on Subjective Span Identification Tasks IJCNLP 2025

MUSTS: MUltilingual Semantic Textual Similarity Benchmark ACL 2025

Does Machine Translation Impact Offensive Language Identification? The Case of Indo-Aryan Languages COLING 2025

Text Generation Models for Luxembourgish with Limited Data: A Balanced Multilingual Strategy COLING 2025

NSina: A News Corpus for Sinhala COLING 2024

An Extensible Massively Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline Dataset using the MultiLS Framework COLING 2024

DARES: Dataset for Arabic Readability Estimation of School Materials COLING 2024

A Federated Learning Approach to Privacy Preserving Offensive Language Identification COLING 2024

The BEA 2024 Shared Task on the Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline NAACL 2024

A Survey of Multimodal Sarcasm Detection IJCAI 2024

MultiLS: An End-to-End Lexical Simplification Framework EMNLP 2024

Rater Cohesion and Quality from a Vicarious Perspective EMNLP 2024

What do Large Language Models Need for Machine Translation Evaluation? EMNLP 2024

DORE: A Dataset for Portuguese Definition Generation COLING 2024

Guided Distant Supervision for Multilingual Relation Extraction Data: Adapting to a New Language COLING 2024

MentalHelp: A Multi-Task Dataset for Mental Health in Social Media COLING 2024

A Text-to-Text Model for Multilingual Offensive Language Identification AACL 2023

Target-Based Offensive Language Identification ACL 2023

Teacher and Student Models of Offensive Language in Social Media ACL 2023

A Multi-task Learning Framework for Quality Estimation ACL 2023

ALEXSIS+: Improving Substitute Generation and Selection for Lexical Simplification with Information Retrieval ACL 2023

Vicarious Offense and Noise Audit of Offensive Speech Classifiers: Unifying Human and Machine Disagreement on What is Offensive EMNLP 2023

Quality Estimation-Assisted Automatic Post-Editing EMNLP 2023

Offensive Language Identification in Transliterated and Code-Mixed Bangla EMNLP 2023

SurreyAI 2023 Submission for the Quality Estimation Shared Task EMNLP 2023

A Text-to-Text Model for Multilingual Offensive Language Identification IJCNLP 2023

GMU-WLV at TSAR-2022 Shared Task: Evaluating Lexical Simplification Models EMNLP 2022

ALEXSIS-PT: A New Resource for Portuguese Lexical Simplification COLING 2022

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

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

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

fBERT: A Neural Transformer for Identifying Offensive Content EMNLP 2021

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

An Exploratory Analysis of Multilingual Word-Level Quality Estimation with Cross-Lingual Transformers IJCNLP 2021

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

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

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

An Exploratory Analysis of Multilingual Word-Level Quality Estimation with Cross-Lingual Transformers ACL 2021

MUDES: Multilingual Detection of Offensive Spans NAACL 2021

Transformers to Fight the COVID-19 Infodemic NAACL 2021

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

Comparing Approaches to Dravidian Language Identification EACL 2021

Pushing the Right Buttons: Adversarial Evaluation of Quality Estimation EMNLP 2021

Multilingual Offensive Language Identification with Cross-lingual Embeddings EMNLP 2020

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

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

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

TransQuest at WMT2020: Sentence-Level Direct Assessment EMNLP 2020

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

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

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

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

TransQuest: Translation Quality Estimation with Cross-lingual Transformers COLING 2020

RGCL-WLV at SemEval-2019 Task 12: Toponym Detection SEMEVAL 2019