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N de Silva,".Some languages are more equal than others: Probing deeper into the linguistic disparity in the nlp world.",2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing,Taiwan,2022,823-848

Vinura Dhananjaya, Piyumal Demotte, Sanath Jayasena ,".BERTifying Sinhala - A Comprehensive Analysis of Pre-trained Language Models for Sinhala Text Classification.",Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference,France,2022,7377–7385

Sampath Rajapaksha,".Aspect Detection in Sportswear Apparel Reviews for Opinion Mining.",Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon),Moratuwa,2022,1-6

Niyarepola, K., Athapaththu, D., Ekanayake, S.,".Math Word Problem Generation with Multilingual Language Models.",5th International Conference on Natural Language Generation,USA,2022,144-155

Herath, M., Chamindu, K., Maduwantha, H.,,".Dataset and Baseline for Automatic Student Feedback Analysis.",Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference,France,2022,2042-2049

Lee, E. S. A., Thillainathan, S., Nayak, S., Adelani, D. I., Su, R., & McCarthy, A. D.,".Pre-Trained Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Models: A Hope for Low-Resource Language Translation?.",Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022,Dublin,2022,58-67

Chathuranga, Shanaka, and Surangika Ranathunga,".Classification of code-mixed text using capsule networks.",International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing,Bulgaria,2021,256-263

Thillainathan, Sarubi, Surangika Ranathunga, and Sanath Jayasena,".Fine-Tuning Self-Supervised Multilingual Sequence-To-Sequence Models for Extremely Low-Resource NMT.",2021 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference,Sri Lanka,2021,432-437

Demotte, Piyumal and Senevirathne, Lahiru and Karunanayake, Binod and Munasinghe, Udyogi and Ranathunga, Surangika,".Sentiment Analysis of Sinhala News Comments using Sentence-State LSTM Networks.",2020 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon),Sri Lanka,2020,283--288

Liyanage, Vijini and Ranathunga, Surangika,".Multi-lingual mathematical word problem generation using long short term memory networks with enhanced input features.",12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference,France,2020,4709--4716

Lakmal, Dimuthu and Ranathunga, Surangika and Peramuna, Saman and Herath, Indu,".Word embedding evaluation for Sinhala.",12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference,France,2020,1874--1881

MD Rajitha, LL Piyarathna, MMD Nayanajith and Ranathunga, Surangika,".Sinhala and English Document Alignment using Statistical Machine Translation.",20th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions,Sri Lanka,2020,29--34

Karunanayake, Binod and Munasinghe, Udyogi and Demotte, Piyumal and Senevirathne, Lahiru and Ranathunga, Surangika,".Sinhala Sentiment Lexicon Generation using Word Similarity.",20th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions,Sri Lanka,2020,77-82

Fayaza, MS Faathima and Ranathunga, Surangika ,".Tamil News Clustering Using Word Embeddings.",2020 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference,Sri Lanka,2020,277-282

Azeez, Rameela and Ranathunga, Surangika,".Fine-grained named entity recognition for sinhala.",2020 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference,Sri Lanka,2020,295-300

Jayasinghe, Ishadi and Ranathunga, Surangika,".Two-Step Memory Networks for Deep Semantic Parsing of Geometry Word Problems.",International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics,Cyprus,2020,676--685

Liyanage, Vijini and Ranathunga, Surangika,".A multi-language platform for generating algebraic mathematical word problems.",14th Conference on Industrial and Information Systems,Sri Lanka,2019,332--337

Karunanayake, Yohan and Thayasivam, Uthayasanker and Ranathunga, Surangika,".Sinhala and tamil speech intent identification from english phoneme based asr.",International Conference on Asian Language Processing,China,2019,234--239

Geethika, Deshani and Jayasinghe, Malith and Gunarathne, Yasas and Gamage, Thilina Ashen and Jayathilaka, Sudaraka and Ranathunga, Surangika and Perera, Srinath,".Anomaly Detection in High-Performance API Gateways.",International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS),Spain,2019,995--1001

Kumarage, Tharindu and Kuruppu, Chamal and De Silva, Nadun and Ranawaka, Malsha and Ranathunga, Surangika,".Generative adversarial networks (GAN) based anomaly detection in industrial software systems.",2019 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference,Sri Lanka,2019,43-48

Karunanayake, Yohan and Thayasivam, Uthayasanker and Ranathunga, Surangika,".Transfer learning based free-form speech command classification for low-resource languages.",57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop,Italy,2019,288-294

Rajpirathap, Sakthithasan and Ranathunga, Surangika,".Model answer generation for word-type questions in elementary mathematics.",International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems,United Kingdom,2019,17-28

Fernando, Kulakshi and Ranathunga, Surangika,".Mathematical Expression Extraction from Unstructured Plain Text.",International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems,United Kingdom,2019,312-320

Farhath, Fathima and Ranathunga, Surangika and Jayasena, Sanath and Dias, Gihan,".Integration of bilingual lists for domain-specific statistical machine translation for sinhala-tamil.",2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference,Sri Lanka,2019,538-543

Farhath, Fathima and Thayasivam, Uthayasanker and Jayasena, Sanath and Dias, Gihan,".Si-ta: Machine translation of sinhala and tamil official documents.",2018 National Information Technology Conference,Sri Lanka,2018,1-6

Randika, Chathura ,".Gathika: A Dynamic Query Distribution Mechanism For Complex Event Processing Systems.",18th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions,Sri Lanka,2018,54--61

Jihan, Nadheesh and Senarath, Yasas,".Aspect extraction from customer reviews using convolutional neural networks.",18th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions,Sri Lanka,2018,215-220

Hevapathige, Asela and Wellappili, Dushani and Kankanamge, Gimhani Uthpala and Dewappriya, Nuwantha,".A two-phase classifier for automatic answer generation for math word problems.",18th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions,Sri Lanka,2018,1-6

Fernando, Kulakshi and Dias, Gihan,".Answer generation for set type math word problems.",18th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions,Sri Lanka,2018,245-252

Tennage, Pasindu and Herath, Achini and Thilakarathne, Malith and Sandaruwan, Prabath,".Transliteration and byte pair encoding to improve tamil to sinhala neural machine translation.",2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference,Sri Lanka,2018,390-395

{Nanayakkara, Purnima ,".Clustering sinhala news articles using corpus-based similarity measures.",2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference ,Sri Lanka,2018,437--442

Fernando, Sandareka ,".Evaluation of different classifiers for sinhala pos tagging.",2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference,Sri Lanka,2018,96--101

Dewappriya, Nuwantha and Kankanamge, Gimhani Uthpala and Wellappili, Dushani and Hevapathige, Asela,".Unit Conflict Resolution for Automatic Math Word Problem Solving.",2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference,Sri Lanka,2018,191--196

Thayaparan, Mokanarangan and Thayasivam, Uthayasanker,".Graph based semi-supervised learning approach for tamil pos tagging.", Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ,Japan,2018,

Chathuranga, Janaka and Ediriweera, Shanika and Hasantha, Ravindu and Munasinghe, Pranidhith ,".Annotating opinions and opinion targets in student course feedback.",Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ,Japan,2018,

Farhath, Fathima and Theivendiram, Pranavan and Ranathunga, Surangika and Jayasena, Sanath and Dias, Gihan,".Improving domain-specific SMT for low-resourced languages using data from different domains.",Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation,Japan,2018,

Tennage, Pasindu and Sandaruwan, Prabath and Thilakarathne, Malith and Herath, Achini and Ranathunga, Surangika,".Handling rare word problem using synthetic training data for sinhala and tamil neural machine translation.",Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ,Japan,2018,

Kumarage, Tharindu and De Silva, Nadun and Ranawaka, Malsha and Kuruppu, Chamal and Ranathunga, Surangika,".Anomaly Detection in Industrial Software Systems-Using Variational Autoencoders.",International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods,Portugal,2018,440-447

Tennage, Pasindu and Sandaruwan, Prabath and Thilakarathne, Malith and Herath, Achini,".Neural machine translation for sinhala and tamil languages.",International Conference on Asian Language Processing,Singapore,2017,189--192

Jihan, Nadheesh and Senarath, Yasas and Tennekoon, Dulanjaya and Wickramarathne, Mithila ,".Multi-domain aspect extraction using support vector machines.", 29th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing,Taiwan,2017,308--322

Chathuranga, Janaka, Shanika Ediriweera, Pranidhith Munasinghe, Ravindu Hasantha,".Opinion Target Extraction for Student Course Feedback.",29th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing,Taiwan,2017,295-307

Prabodha, L. H. C., W. R. R. Vithanage, L. T. Ranaweera, D. M. M. A. I. B. Dissanayak,".Monitoring Health of Large Scale Software Systems Using Drift Detection Techniques.",Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems,Italy,2017,152-163

Panchendrarajan, Rrubaa, Nazick Ahamed, Prakhash Sivakumar, Brunthavan Murugaiah,".Eatery: a multi-aspect restaurant rating system.", 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media,Czech Republic ,2017,225-234

Wijesinghe, Diunuge Buddhika, Jcs Kadupitiya,".Automatic assessment of student answers consisting of venn and euler diagram.",17th international conference on advanced learning technologies,Romania,2017,243-247

Kadupitiya, Jayanath Chamindu Sandanuwan, and Gihan Dias,".Assessment and error identification of answers to mathematical word problems.",17th international conference on advanced learning technologies,Romania,2017,55-59

Wijeweera, Buddhima, Gihan Dias,".Automatic assessment of student answers for geometric construction questions.",17th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies,Romania,2017,238-242

Erabadda, Buddhiprabha, and Gihan Dias,".Automatic identification of errors in multi-step answers to algebra questions.",17th international conference on advanced learning technologies,Romania,2017,215-219

Mendis, Chamupathi, Dhanushka Lahiru, Naduni Pamudika, Supun Madushanka, and Gihan Dias,".Automatic assessment of student answers for geometric theorem proving questions.",2017 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference ,Sri Lanka,2017,413-418

Thirunavukkarasu, Nilasini, Anutharsha Selvarasa, Niveathika Rajendran, Chinthoorie Yogalingam, Sand Gihan Dias,".Automatic assessment and error identification of multi-step answers for matrix questions.",2017 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference ,Sri Lanka,2017,123-128

Selvarasa, Anutharsha, Nilasini Thirunavukkarasu, Niveathika Rajendran, Chinthoorie Yogalingam, and Gihan Dias,".Short tamil sentence similarity calculation using knowledge-based and corpus-based similarity measures.",2017 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference ,Sri Lanka,2017,443-448

Mohamed, Maryam Ziyad, Anusha Ihalapathirana, Riyafa Abdul Hameed, Nadeeshani Pathirennehelage, Sanath Jayasena, and Gihan Dias,".Automatic creation of a word aligned Sinhala-Tamil parallel corpus.",2017 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference ,Sri Lanka,2017,425-430

Ranaweera, Lochana, Ruchindra Vithanage, Amitha Dissanayake, Chamil Prabodha,".Anomaly detection in complex trading systems.",2017 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference ,Sri Lanka,2017,437-442

Kahaduwa, Hasangi, Dilshan Pathirana, Pathum Liyana Arachchi, Vishma Dias, and Upali Kohomban,".Question Answering system for the travel domain.",2017 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference ,Sri Lanka,2017,449-454

Dilshani, N., S. Fernando, S. Jayasena, and G. Dias,".A Comprehensive Part of Speech (POS) Tag Set for Sinhala Language..",Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka,Sri Lanka,2017,

Sandareka Fernando,Sanath Jayasena,Gihan Dias,".Comprehensive Part-Of-Speech Tag Set and SVM Based POS Tagger for Sinhala.",6th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural languages,Osaka, Japan,2016,

JCS Kadupitiya,Gihan Dias,".inhala Short Sentence Similarity Measures using Corpus-Based Similarity for Short Answer Grading.",6th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural languages,Osaka, Japan,2016,

Hameed, A.B., Pathirennehelage, N., Ihalapathirana, A., Mohamed, M.Z., Sanathi Jayasena, Gihan Dias, Sandareka Fernando,".Automatic Creation of a Sentence Aligned Sinhala-Tamil Parallel Corpus.",6th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural languages,Osaka, Japan,2016,

Kiruparan, B.,".Domain-Specific Term Extraction for Concept Identification in Ontology Construction.",IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence,Omaha, USA,2016,

Wijesinghe D.B., Gihan Dias,".Computer Representation of Venn and Euler Diagrams.",16th International Conference of Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions,Negombo, Sri Lanka,2016,

Kadupitiya JCS, Gihan Dias,".Automated Assessment of Multi-Step Answers for Mathematical Word Problems.",16th International Conference of Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions,Negombo, Sri Lanka,2016,

Erabadda, B., Gihan Dias,".Automated Assessment of Multi-Step Answers for Mathematical Word Problems.",16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies,Austin, USA,2016,199-201

Panchendrarajan, R., Ahamed, N., Murugaiah, B., Sivakumar, P., Pemasiri, A.,".Implicit Aspect Detection in Restaurant Reviews.",7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis,San Diego, USA,2016,128-136

Imalka, T., Nisansala, H., Subasinghe, S., Warnakulasuriya, S., Kohomban, U., Pemasiri K.,".Agent-Based Framework for One-to-many Bi-lateral Negotiation in Online Trading.",9th International Workshop on Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations,Singapore,2016,

Uthayakumar, M., Theivendiram, P., Nadarasamoorthy, N., Thayaparan, M., Jayasena, S., Dias, G.,".Named-Entity-Recognition (NER) for Tamil Language Using Margin-Infused Relaxed Algorithm (MIRA).",17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics,Konya, Turkey,2016,

Uthayakumar, M., Theivendiram, P., Nadarasamoorthy, N., Thayaparan, M., Jayasena, S., Dias, G.,".Tamil Morphological Analyzer using Support Vector Machines.",21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems,Salford, UK,2016,15-23

Sivakumar, P., Ahamed, N., Panchendrarajan, R., Murugaiah, B., Pemasiri, A.,".Categorizing food names in restaurant reviews.",2nd Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference,Moratuwa, Sri Lanka,2016,5-Jan

Panchendrarajan, R., Murugaiah, B., Sivakumar, P., Ahamed, N., Pemasiri, A,".heap Food or Friendly Staff? Weighting Hierarchical Aspects in the Restaurant Domain.",2nd Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference,Moratuwa, Sri Lanka,2016,24-29

Ahamed, F., Reemal, A., Rajapakshe, E., Samarakoon, P., Jayasena, S., Dias, G.,".Ananya - A Named Entity Recognition System for Sinhala Language.",2nd Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference,Moratuwa, Sri Lanka,2016,30-35

Udantha, M.,Dias, G.,".Modeling Website User Behaviors by Combining the EM and DBSCAN Algorithms.",2nd Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference,Moratuwa, Sri Lanka,2016,168-173

Udantha, M.,Dias, G.,".An Episode-based Approach to Identify Website User Access Patterns.",2016 International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods,Rome, Italy,2016,343-350

Ranathunga, S., Lee, E. S. A., Prifti Skenduli, M., Shekhar, R., Alam, M., & Kaur, R.,".Neural machine translation for low-resource languages: A survey.",ACM Computing Surveys,55.11,2023

H Rathnayake, J Sumanapala, R Rukshani,".Adapter-based fine-tuning of pre-trained multilingual language models for code-mixed and code-switched text classification.",Knowledge and Information Systems,64(7),2022

Fernando, A., Sachintha, D., Piyarathna, L., & Rajitha, C.,".Exploiting bilingual lexicons to improve multilingual embedding-based document and sentence alignment for low-resource languages.",Knowledge and Information Systems,65(2),2022

Lee, E. S. A., Prifti Skenduli, M., Shekhar, R., Alam, M., & Kaur, R.,".Neural machine translation for low-resource languages: A survey.",ACM Computing Surveys,55(11),2022

IU Liyanage,".Sentiment Analysis of Sinhala News Comments.",Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing,20,2021

Bhattacharyya, Pushpak and Murthy, Hema and Munasinghe, Ranjiva,".Indic language computing.",Communications of the ACM,62,2019

enarath, Yasas and Jihan, Nadheesh,".A hybrid approach for aspect extraction from customer reviews.",International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions,12,2019

Hettiarachchi, HAH and Wickramasinghe, CN,".The influence of social commerce on consumer decisions.",The International Technology Management Review,7,2018

Journals

1.      Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., and Purvis, M. (2012). Identifying events taking place in Second Life virtual environments. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 26 (1-2), 137-181.

2.      Hettiarachchi, H.A.H., Wickramasinghe, C.N. and Ranathunga, S., 2017. The Role of Social Commerce on Consumer Decisions: A Theoretical Foundation. Journal of Business and Technology 1 (02), 120-139

Book Chapters

1.      Kumarasinghe, K. and Tharanga, G. and Weerasinghe, L. and Wickramarathna, U. and Ranathunga, S. (2015). VISIRI - Distributed Complex Event Processing System for Handling Large Number of Queries. In Tom Holvoet, Mirko Viroli (Eds.), Coordination Models and Languages, Volume 9037 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 230-245. Springer.

2.      Cranefield, S. and Ranathunga, S. (2015). Handling Agent Perception in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems: A Policy-Based Approach. In Tom Holvoet, Mirko Viroli (Eds.), Coordination Models and Languages, Volume 9037 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 169-185. Springer.

3.      Ranathunga, S. and Cranefield, S. (2012). Improving situation awareness in intelligent virtual agents. In F. Dignum, C. Brom, K. Hindriks, M. Beer, D. Richards (Eds.), Cognitive Agents for Virtual Environments, Volume 7764 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 134-148. Springer.

4.      Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., and Purvis, M. (2012). Integrating expectation monitoring into BDI agents. In L. Dennis, O. Boissier, and R. Bordini (Eds.), Programming Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 7217 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 74–91. Springer.

5.      Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., and Purvis, M. (2012). Interfacing a cognitive agent platform with Second Life. In M. Beer, C. Brom, F. Dignum, and V.-W. Soo (Eds.), Agents for Educational Games and Simulations, Volume 7471 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1-21. Springer.

Conferences and Workshops (published)

1.      Randika, C., & Ranathunga, S. (2018, September). Gathika: A Dynamic Query Distribution Mechanism For Complex Event Processing Systems. In 2018 18th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer) (pp. 54-61). IEEE.

2.      Jihan, N., Senarath, Y., & Ranathunga, S. (2018, September). Aspect Extraction from Customer Reviews Using Convolutional Neural Networks. In 2018 18th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer) (pp. 215-220). IEEE.

3.      Hevapathige, A., Wellappili, D., Kankanamge, G. U., Dewappriya, N., & Ranathunga, S. (2018, September). A Two-Phase Classifier for Automatic Answer Generation for Math Word Problems. In 2018 18th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

4.      Fernando, K., Ranathunga, S., & Dias, G. (2018, September). Answer Generation for Set Type Math Word Problems. In 2018 18th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer) (pp. 245-252). IEEE.

5.      Ranathunga, S., Farhath, F., Thayasivam, U., Jayasena, S. and Dias, G., 2018, October. Si-Ta: Machine Translation of Sinhala and Tamil Official Documents. In 2018 National Information Technology Conference (NITC) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

6.      Farhath, F., Ranathunga, S., Jayasena, S. and Dias, G., 2018, May. Integration of Bilingual Lists for Domain-Specific Statistical Machine Translation for Sinhala-Tamil. In 2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) (pp. 538-543). IEEE.

7.      Tennage, P., Herath, A., Thilakarathne, M., Sandaruwan, P. and Ranathunga, S., 2018, May. Transliteration and Byte Pair Encoding to Improve Tamil to Sinhala Neural Machine Translation. In 2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) (pp. 390-395). IEEE.

8.      Nanayakkara, P. and Ranathunga, S., 2018, May. Clustering Sinhala News Articles Using Corpus-Based Similarity Measures. In 2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) (pp. 437-442). IEEE.

9.      Fernando, S. and Ranathunga, S., 2018, May. Evaluation of Different Classifiers for Sinhala POS Tagging. In 2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) (pp. 96-101). IEEE.

10.  Thayaparan, M., Ranathunga, S. and Thayasivam, U., (2018) Graph Based Semi-Supervised Learning Approach for Tamil POS tagging. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

11.  Chathuranga, J., Ediriweera, S., Hasantha, R., Munasinghe, P. and Ranathunga, S., 2018. Annotating Opinions and Opinion Targets in Student Course Feedback. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

12.  Farhath, F., Theivendiram, P., Ranathunga, S., Jayasena, S. and Dias, G., 2018. Improving domain-specific SMT for low-resourced languages using data from different domains.  In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

13.  Tennage, P., Sandaruwan, P., Thilakarathne, M., Herath, A. and Ranathunga, S., 2018. Handling Rare Word Problem using Synthetic Training Data for Sinhala and Tamil Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

14.  Dewappriya, N., Kankanamge, G.U., Wellappili, D., Hevapathige, A. and Ranathunga, S., 2018, May. Unit Conflict Resolution for Automatic Math Word Problem Solving. In 2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) (pp. 191-196). IEEE.

15.  Tennage, P., Sandaruwan, P., Thilakarathne, M., Herath, A., Ranathunga, S., Jayasena, S. and Dias, G., 2017, December. Neural machine translation for sinhala and tamil languages. In Asian Language Processing (IALP), 2017 International Conference on (pp. 189-192). IEEE.

16.  Mendis, C., Lahiru, D., Pamudika, N., Madushanka, S., Ranathunga, S. and Dias, G., 2017, May. Automatic assessment of student answers for geometric theorem proving questions. In Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2017 Moratuwa (pp. 413-418). IEEE.

17.  Thirunavukkarasu, N., Selvarasa, A., Rajendran, N., Yogalingam, C., Ranathunga, S. and Dias, G., 2017, May. Automatic assessment and error identification of multi-step answers for matrix questions. In Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2017 Moratuwa (pp. 123-128). IEEE.

18.  Selvarasa, A., Thirunavukkarasu, N., Rajendran, N., Yogalingam, C., Ranathunga, S. and Dias, G., 2017, May. Short Tamil sentence similarity calculation using knowledge-based and corpus-based similarity measures. In Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2017 Moratuwa (pp. 443-448). IEEE.

19.  Mohamed, M.Z., Ihalapathirana, A., Hameed, R.A., Pathirennehelage, N., Ranathunga, S., Jayasena, S. and Dias, G., 2017, May. Automatic creation of a word aligned Sinhala-Tamil parallel corpus. In Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2017 Moratuwa (pp. 425-430). IEEE.

20.  Ranaweera, L., Vithanage, R., Dissanayake, A., Prabodha, C. and Ranathunga, S., 2017, May. Anomaly detection in complex trading systems. In Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2017 Moratuwa (pp. 437-442). IEEE.

21.  Kahaduwa, H., Pathirana, D., Arachchi, P.L., Dias, V., Ranathunga, S. and Kohomban, U., 2017, May. Question Answering system for the travel domain. In Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2017 Moratuwa (pp. 449-454). IEEE.

22.  Jihan, N., Senarath, Y., Tennekoon, D., Wickramarathne, M. and Ranathunga, S., 2017. Multi-Domain Aspect Extraction using Support Vector Machines. In Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2017) (pp. 308-322).

23.  Chathuranga, J., Ediriweera, S., Munasinghe, P., Hasantha, R. and Ranathunga, S., 2017. Opinion Target Extraction for Student Course Feedback. In Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2017) (pp. 295-307).

24.  Hettiarachchi, H.A.H., Wickramasinghe, C.N. and Ranathunga, S., 2017. Social Commerce and Consumer Decision Making: A Conceptual Model from Social Support Perspective. Sixth International Conference on Advances in Economics, Social Science and Human Behaviour Study (ESSHBS).

25.  Prabodha, L. H. C., Vithanage, W. R. R., Ranaweera, L. T., Dissanayake, D. M. M. A. I. B., and Ranathunga, S. (2017) Monitoring Health of Large Scale Software Systems Using Drift Detection Techniques. Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems, 152-163. Springer.        

26.  Erabadda, B., Ranathunga, S., and Dias, G. (2017) Automatic Identification of Errors in Multi-Step Answers to Algebra Questions. 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 215-219, IEEE.

27.  Kadupitiya, J.C.S., Ranathunga, S., Dias, G., (2017) A Framework for Assessment and Error Identification of Answers to Mathematical Word Problems. 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 55-59, IEEE.

28.  Wijeweera, W., Ranathunga, S., Dias, G., (2017) Automatic Assessment of Student Answers for Geometric Construction Questions. 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (accepted), 238-242, IEEE.

29.  Wijesinghe D.B., Ranathunga, S., and Dias, G., Kadupitiya, J.C.S., (2017)  Automatic Assessment of Student Answers Consisting of Venn and Euler Diagrams. 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 243-247, IEEE.

30.  Panchendrarajan, R., Ahamed, N., Sivakumar, P., Murugaiah, B., Ranathunga, S., and Pemasiri, A. (2017). Eatery – A Multi-Aspect Restaurant Rating System. ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 225-234, ACM.

31.  Fernando, S., Ranathunga, S., Jayasena, S., Dias, G., (2016) Comprehensive Part-Of-Speech Tag Set and SVM Based POS Tagger for Sinhala. 6th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural languages, 163-172.

32.  Kadupitiya, J.C.S., Ranathunga, S., Dias, G., (2016) Sinhala Short Sentence Similarity Measures using Corpus-Based Similarity for Short Answer Grading. 6th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural languages, 44-53.

33.  Hameed, A.B., Pathirennehelage, N., Ihalapathirana, A., Mohamed, M.Z.,  Ranathunga, S., Jayasena, S., Dias, G., Fernando, S. (2016) Automatic Creation of a Sentence Aligned Sinhala-Tamil Parallel Corpus. 6th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural languages, 114-122.

34.  Kiruparan, B., Ranathunga, S., (2016) Domain-Specific Term Extraction for Concept Identification in Ontology Construction. 2016 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, 34-41.

35.  Wijesinghe D.B., Ranathunga, S., and Dias, G. (2016) Computer Representation of Venn and Euler Diagrams. 16th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, 100-105.

36.  Kadupitiya, J.C.S., Ranathunga, S., and Dias, G. (2016) Automated Assessment of Multi-Step Answers for Mathematical Word Problems. 16th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, 66-71.

37.  Erabadda, B., Ranathunga, S., and Dias, G. (2016) Computer Aided Evaluation of Multi-Step Answers to Algebra Questions. 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 199-201.

38.  Panchendrarajan, R., Ahamed, N., Murugaiah, B., Sivakumar, P., Ranathunga, S., and Pemasiri, A. (2016) Implicit Aspect Detection in Restaurant Reviews. In proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, 128-136.

39.  Imalka, T., Nisansala, H., Subasinghe, S., Warnakulasuriya, S., Kohomban, U., Ranathunga, S., and Pemasiri K. (2016) NetoTrades: Agent-Based Framework for One-to-many Bi-lateral Negotiation in Online Trading. 9th International Workshop on Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations (ACAN). (accepted)

40.  Uthayakumar, M., Theivendiram, P., Nadarasamoorthy, N., Thayaparan, M., Jayasena, S., Dias, G., and Ranathunga, S. (2016) Named-Entity-Recognition (NER) for Tamil Language Using Margin-Infused Relaxed Algorithm (MIRA). 17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics. (accepted)

41.  Uthayakumar, M., Theivendiram, P., Nadarasamoorthy, N., Thayaparan, M., Jayasena, S., Dias, G., and Ranathunga, S. (2016) Tamil Morphological Analyzer using Support Vector Machines. 21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, 15-23. Springer

42.  Sivakumar, P., Ahamed, N., Panchendrarajan, R., Murugaiah, B., Ranathunga, S., and Pemasiri, A. (2016) Categorizing food names in restaurant reviews. In proceedings of the 2nd Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, 1-5.

43.  Panchendrarajan, R., Murugaiah, B., Sivakumar, P., Ahamed, N., Ranathunga, S., and Pemasiri, A. (2016) Cheap Food or Friendly Staff? Weighting Hierarchical Aspects in the Restaurant Domain. In proceedings of the 2nd Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, 24-29.

44.  Ahamed, F., Reemal, A., Rajapakshe, E., Samarakoon, P., Jayasena, S., Dias, G., and Ranathunga, S. (2016) Ananya - A Named Entity Recognition System for Sinhala Language. In proceedings of the 2nd Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, 30-35.

45.  Udantha, M., Ranathunga, S., and Dias, G. (2016) Modeling Website User Behaviors by Combining the EM and DBSCAN Algorithms. In proceedings of the 2nd Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, 168-173. (Best paper award in the biomedical engineering and soft computing track)

46.  Udantha, M., Ranathunga, S., and Dias, G. (2016) An Episode-based Approach to Identify Website User Access Patterns. In proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, 343-350.

47.  Palihakkara, S., Sahabandu, D., Shamsudeen A., Bandara, C. and Ranathunga, S. (2015) Dialogue Act Recognition for Text-based Sinhala. 12th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON) .

48.  Ahiladas, B., Saravanaperumal, P., Balachandran S., Sripalan, T. and Ranathunga, S. (2015) Ruchi: Rating Individual Food Items in Restaurant Reviews. 12th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON) .

49.  Ranathunga, S. (2014) Retrieving abstract information from multi-party conversations. International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer). IEEE.

50.  Cranefield, S. and Ranathunga, S. (2013) Embedding BDI agents in business applications using enterprise integration patterns (Extended Abstract). In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2013), 1223-1224. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.

51.  Cranefield, S. and Ranathunga, S. (2013) Embedding BDI agents in business applications using enterprise integration patterns. International workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2013)

52.  Ranathunga, S. and Cranefield, S. (2012). Expectation and complex event handling in BDI-based intelligent virtual agents (Demonstration). In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 1491–1492. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.

53.  Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., and Purvis, M. K. (2011). Interfacing a cognitive agent platform with a virtual world: A case study using Second Life. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 1181-1182. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.

54.  Ranathunga, S. and Cranefield, S. (2012). Improving situation awareness in intelligent virtual agents. In Proceedings of the AAMAS-2012 Workshop on Cognitive Agents for Virtual Environments, 134-148. Springer

Conferences and Workshops (unpublished)

1.   Ranathunga, S. (2018). Developing Active Explorers from Listeners: Encouraging engineering students to explore by asking Questions during Lectures, at the 14th Conference of SLAIHEE (Sri Lanka Association for Improving Higher Education Effectiveness).

2.   Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., and Purvis, M. (2011). Generating percepts for intelligent virtual agents, at the ¸£ÀûÔÚÏß¿´ of Otago School of Business Colloquium.

3.   Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., and Purvis, M. (2010). Integrating expectation monitoring into Jason: A case study using Second Life. In the 8th European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems.

4.   Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., and Purvis, M. (2010). Introducing the Notion of Social Rules and Norms in Virtual Communities, at the ¸£ÀûÔÚÏß¿´ of Otago School of Business Colloquium.

5.   Perera K.A.D., Ranathunga R.A.D.S., Welivitigoda I.P, and Withanawasam R.M. (2005). Isolated word recognition. In the International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA 2005), Colombo, Sri Lanka.

6.   Perera K.A.D., Ranathunga R.A.D.S., Welivitigoda I.P, and Withanawasam R.M. (2005). Connected speech recognition with an isolated word recognizer. In the International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA 2005), Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Technical Reports

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