Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe
Lecturer in Security and Protection ScienceResearch 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 machine translation, social media analytics (i.e. hate speech detection, misinformation detection) and text adaptation.
I served as an area chair in LREC-COLING 2024. I am in the programming committee of major NLP/ ML conferences. I served as the research technical track chair in EAMT 2023. I am the programme committee co-chair in NeTTT 2024. I have organised multiple shared tasks such as HASOC and MLSP.
Towards Responsible Machine Translation with Quality Estimation
Invited talk
Best Paper Award at the First Workshop on Bangla Language Processing
Prize (including medals and awards)
Best System in WMT QE Shared Task 2020
Prize (including medals and awards)
Best Paper Award for Qur’an QA shared task at the 5th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools
Prize (including medals and awards)
SCC (Data Science), UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language
- SCC (Data Science)
- UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language