Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe

Lecturer in Security and Protection Science

Research Overview

My research focuses on developing Machine Learning (ML) approaches for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, particularly emphasising NLP for Social Good. My work has various applications, such as computational social science, digital humanities and text adaptation. I have published in top natural language processing journals and conferences, including ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and COLING. I am an Associate Editor of Natural Language Processing (previously Journal of Natural Language Engineering) and as an Area Chair for ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, and EACL. Additionally, I co-chair the New Trends in Translation and Technology (NeTTT) conference series (https://nettt-conference.com/) and the LoResLM workshop (https://loreslm.github.io/).

For an up-to-date list of my publications, please visit my Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=9t7WhIIAAAAJ

2025
- Journal article
  - SOLD: Sinhala offensive language dataset
    Ranasinghe, T., Nanomi Arachchige, I., Dola Mullage, D., Silva, K., Hettiarachchi, H., Uyangodage, L., Zampieri, M. 6/03/2025 In: Language Resources and Evaluation. 59, p. 297-337. 41 p.
  - Deep learning approaches to lexical simplification: A survey
    North, K., Ranasinghe, T., Shardlow, M., Zampieri, M. 28/02/2025 In: Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. 63, 1, p. 111-134. 24 p.
  - On the effects of machine translation on offensive language detection
    Dmonte, A., Satapara, S., Alsudais, R., Ranasinghe, T., Zampieri, M. 9/01/2025 In: Social Network Analysis and Mining . 14, 1
- Conference contribution/Paper
  - Overview of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025)
    Hettiarachchi, H., Ranasinghe, T., Rayson, P., Mitkov, R., Gaber, M.M., Dola Mullage, D., Tan, F.A., Uyangodage, L. 20/01/2025
    
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- Anthology
  - Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages
    Hettiarachchi, H., Ranasinghe, T., Rayson, P., Mitkov, R., Gaber, M., Premasiri, D., Tan, F.A., Uyangodage, L. 20/01/2025 Association for Computational Linguistics.