Search Results for author: Damith Premasiri

Found 10 papers, 5 papers with code

A Federated Learning Approach to Privacy Preserving Offensive Language Identification

no code implementations17 Apr 2024 Marcos Zampieri, Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe

Since most social media data originates from end users, we propose a privacy preserving decentralized architecture for identifying offensive language online by introducing Federated Learning (FL) in the context of offensive language identification.

Federated Learning Language Identification +1

Can Model Fusing Help Transformers in Long Document Classification? An Empirical Study

1 code implementation18 Jul 2023 Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Ruslan Mitkov

Text classification is an area of research which has been studied over the years in Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Document Classification text-classification

SOLD: Sinhala Offensive Language Dataset

1 code implementation1 Dec 2022 Tharindu Ranasinghe, Isuri Anuradha, Damith Premasiri, Kanishka Silva, Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lasitha Uyangodage, Marcos Zampieri

SOLD is a manually annotated dataset containing 10, 000 posts from Twitter annotated as offensive and not offensive at both sentence-level and token-level, improving the explainability of the ML models.

Language Identification Sentence

Overview of the HASOC Subtrack at FIRE 2022: Offensive Language Identification in Marathi

no code implementations18 Nov 2022 Tharindu Ranasinghe, Kai North, Damith Premasiri, Marcos Zampieri

The widespread of offensive content online has become a reason for great concern in recent years, motivating researchers to develop robust systems capable of identifying such content automatically.

Language Identification

Transformer-based Detection of Multiword Expressions in Flower and Plant Names

no code implementations16 Sep 2022 Damith Premasiri, Amal Haddad Haddad, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Ruslan Mitkov

In this paper, we explore state-of-the-art neural transformers in the task of detecting MWEs in flower and plant names.

Machine Translation Translation

BERT(s) to Detect Multiword Expressions

no code implementations16 Aug 2022 Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe

Multiword expressions (MWEs) present groups of words in which the meaning of the whole is not derived from the meaning of its parts.

Machine Translation Translation

DTW at Qur'an QA 2022: Utilising Transfer Learning with Transformers for Question Answering in a Low-resource Domain

1 code implementation12 May 2022 Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Wajdi Zaghouani, Ruslan Mitkov

The goal of the Qur'an QA 2022 shared task is to fill this gap by producing state-of-the-art question answering and reading comprehension research on Qur'an.

Ensemble Learning Machine Reading Comprehension +3

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