Search Results for author: Lakshika Balasuriya

Found 6 papers, 1 papers with code

A Quality Type-aware Annotated Corpus and Lexicon for Harassment Research

no code implementations26 Feb 2018 Mohammadreza Rezvan, Saeedeh Shekarpour, Lakshika Balasuriya, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Valerie Shalin, Amit Sheth

In this paper, we publish first, a quality annotated corpus and second, an offensive words lexicon capturing different types type of harassment as (i) sexual harassment, (ii) racial harassment, (iii) appearance-related harassment, (iv) intellectual harassment, and (v) political harassment. We crawled data from Twitter using our offensive lexicon.

Vocal Bursts Type Prediction

A Semantics-Based Measure of Emoji Similarity

2 code implementations14 Jul 2017 Sanjaya Wijeratne, Lakshika Balasuriya, Amit Sheth, Derek Doran

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the semantic similarity of emoji through embedding models that are learned over machine-readable emoji meanings in the EmojiNet knowledge base.

Semantic Similarity Semantic Textual Similarity +1

EmojiNet: An Open Service and API for Emoji Sense Discovery

no code implementations14 Jul 2017 Sanjaya Wijeratne, Lakshika Balasuriya, Amit Sheth, Derek Doran

This paper presents the release of EmojiNet, the largest machine-readable emoji sense inventory that links Unicode emoji representations to their English meanings extracted from the Web.

Finding Street Gang Members on Twitter

no code implementations29 Oct 2016 Lakshika Balasuriya, Sanjaya Wijeratne, Derek Doran, Amit Sheth

A review of these profiles establishes differences in the language, images, YouTube links, and emojis gang members use compared to the rest of the Twitter population.

EmojiNet: Building a Machine Readable Sense Inventory for Emoji

no code implementations25 Oct 2016 Sanjaya Wijeratne, Lakshika Balasuriya, Amit Sheth, Derek Doran

It is automatically constructed by integrating multiple emoji resources with BabelNet, which is the most comprehensive multilingual sense inventory available to date.

Word Sense Disambiguation

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