I'm excited to share that I attended a Cardiff NLP Summer Workshop at Cardiff University! This is a fantastic opportunity for me to enhance my skills and collaborate with other researchers in the field. The two-day event was filled with insightful discussions from academia and industry with hands-on activities. Special Thanks to CardiffNLP research team for organizing this event.
"SinMix2Mono: A Dataset for Code-mixed Romanized Sinhala Translation and Transliteration" was preseted at EAMT 2026 in Tilburg, Netherlands. This paper is coauthored by Rukshan Dias, Archchana Sindhujan, Minidu Nimna.
You can access the paper at EAMT 2026
"An Exploration-Analysis-Disambiguation Reasoning Framework for Word Sense Disambiguation with Low-Parameter LLMs" was preseted at LREC 2026 in Spain. This paper is coauthored by Dr Nicholas and Dr Julian Hough.
You can access the paper at LREC 2026
We are happy to announce that our project has been shortlisted for the IEEE IES Generative AI Challenge 2026. This is a great recognition of our work TaproQA in the field of generative AI. Hats off to all team members (Yohan and Archchana) for their excellent work!
I’m very happy to share that our paper, “PharmaMap-LLM: Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Drug-Drug Interaction (DDI) Analysis,” has received the Outstanding Paper Award at ICAC 2025. Heartiest congratulations to Kithusshand Raveendran who did an incredible job in producing a marvellous output during his master's studies at Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT Campus).
I have presented my PhD progress poster at PhD Progress Event at Swansea University. Thank you for the organizers, evaluation committee, and all participants for their valuable feedback and support.
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The summer school titled "From data to decision-making under conditions of uncertainty" was held at RISK INSTITUTE - UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES. The summer school was followed by an advanced 1 day-workshop proposed by the Swansea University and the Risk Institute to PhD students and Post-doc Researchers. Thank you to British council for funding this.
I'm delighted to share that four of my co-authored papers on Natural Language Processing and its applications have been accepted at RANLP 2025, a prestigious venue for cutting-edge research in the field of NLP. A big congratulations to all my co-authors for their outstanding contributions and hard work on these impactful findings. Looking forward to presenting our work and engaging with the NLP community!
I'm excited to share that I attended a summer camp at Cardiff University! This is a fantastic opportunity for me to enhance my skills and collaborate with other researchers in the field. The two-day event was filled with insightful discussions from academia and industry with hands-on activities. Special Thanks to CardiffNLP research team for organizing this event.
I'm pleased to share that my application for the AFHEA has been successful, and I have officially been awarded the fellowship. A special mention about my Mentor, Dr Deepak Sahoo and Dr Trang Doan for their invaluable support and guidance throughout this application process.
I’m thrilled to share that our paper, titled "Exploring the Impact of Temperature on Large Language Models: A Case Study for Classification Tasks Based on Word Sense Disambiguation" has been honoured with the Best Presentation Award at ICNLP 2025! 🎉 More information can be found at ICNLP 2025.
This week has been nothing short of phenomenal! Not one, but two major wins in the bag. Our GLOSSGPT @ ED140 got the green light, and to top it all off, our ICNLP submission was accepted too!. The excitement is through the roof—what a thrilling week for the team! Here's to pushing boundaries and shaping the future of LLMs and NLP!
Excited to have participated in COLING 2025, where I presented our work on "IndoNLP shared Task on Adhoc Reverse Transliteration". It was a great opportunity to explore the linguistic diversity of Indo-Aryan languages and discuss the latest advancements in NLP. A big shoutout to my co-organizers for their hard work and dedication in making this workshop a success!
I am thrilled to announce that four of our co-authored papers have been accepted for presentation at ICARC 2025! Congratulations to all my supervisees for their hard work and remarkable achievements. This success is a testament to your dedication and innovation.
Excited to have presented my paper on "Can LLMs Assist with Ambiguity?" at NLPAICS 2024 in Lancaster! It was a great opportunity to explore how large language models can tackle the challenges of ambiguity in language. Looking forward to further discussions and collaborations in this evolving field!. A big thanks to my supervisors/co-authors of the work Dr Nicholas Micallef and Dr Julian Hough for the input on this work. Thank you Lancaster university for organizing this amazing program.
Had a great time with this amazing group at Infolab, Lancaster University. The well-organized summer camp has come to an end, adding tons of knowledge to our basket. Thank you for having us, and special thanks to UCREL for organizing this incredible experience!
Excited to announce that our workshop proposal on "IndoNLP: The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indo-Aryan and Dravidian Languages." has been accepted for COLING 2025! Looking forward to exploring the diverse linguistic landscape of Indo-Aryan languages and discussing the latest advancements in NLP. A big shoutout to my co-organizers for their hard work and dedication in making this happen!
It was a great pleasure to present my ongoing research on Word Sense Disambiguation using a Large Language Model-based approach at the ICIIT Conclave 2024. This work is co-authored by Dr. Nicholas Micallef and Dr. Julian Hough. I would like to extend my gratitude to the Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT) for their innovative idea of conducting the conference on LLMs.
I am happy to announce that I have graduated from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the graduation ceremony as I was away pursuing my PhD studies. A special thanks to Dr. Ruvan Weerasinghe and Dr. Prasan Yapa for supervising my master's research.
I am honored to receive the Graduate Teaching Assistantship (GTA) Postgraduate Research Scholarship for my PhD at Swansea University. My research is proudly supervised by Dr. Nicholas Micallef and Dr. Julian Hough, whose guidance is invaluable in this academic journey.
The Best Paper Award for the paper titled Swa-Bhasha: Romanized Sinhala to Sinhala Reverse Transliteration using a hybrid approach at International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing (ICARC 2023) organized by Faculty of Computing, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka. The paper was themed under Text Analytics and Natural Language processing track.
The Best Paper Award for the paper titled A Rule-based Approach to generate low-resourced Sinhala to Romanized Sinhala Ad hoc Transliterals based on Survey Data under the Track of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. This was organized by International Conference on Innovation and Emerging Technologies 2022, Faculty of Technology, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.
The Best Paper Award for the paper titled Romanized Sinhala to Sinhala Transliteration Using a Hybrid Approach. organized by ICIIT 2022, Informatics Institute of Technology in Colombo. The paper discussed the current challenges in Transliteration approaches and proposed solutions to mitigate such challenges.
I am happy to announce that I have graduated from the National Institute of Technology Calicut with a major in Computer Science and Engineering, achieving first-class.
Thrilled to celebrate a double victory: winning the prestigious TCS Best Project Award and the Best Final Year Project Award in Computer Science at the National Institute of Technology Calicut! 🎉 Kudos to our incredible team Vignesh Selvaraj, Venkatesh Raju, and Uddav Raj for their hard work and brilliance. A special shoutout to the hero behind the scenes, our amazing supervisor, Dr. Jay Prakash, for his invaluable guidance and support. Here's to teamwork and excellence!
Celebrating the graduating Computer Science batch of 2019 from the National Institute of Technology Calicut! 🌟 The first row of the photo features the esteemed professors from the Computer Science Department, while the rest of the image captures the vibrant and talented batchmates of the CS class of 2019. Cheers to the memories, achievements, and bright futures ahead. You can access the photo at Group Photo
I was honored to receive the Nehru Gandhi Memorial Scholarship for Undergraduate Studies in Computer Science for the 2015-16 academic year. A heartfelt thanks to ICCR India for their generous support, enabling me to pursue my Bachelor's degree in Engineering.