Aloka Fernando — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Improving the Quality of Web-mined Parallel Corpora of Low-Resource Languages using Debiasing Heuristics

Aloka Fernando, Nisansa de Silva, Menan Velayuthan, Charitha Rathnayake, Surangika Ranathunga

EMNLP 2025

Parallel Data Curation (PDC) techniques aim to filter out noisy parallel sentences from web-mined corpora. Ranking sentence pairs using similarity scores on sentence embeddings derived from Pre-trained Multilingual Language Models (multiPLMs) is the most common PDC technique. However, previous resea

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2024

Shoulders of Giants: A Look at the Degree and Utility of Openness in NLP Research

Surangika Ranathunga, Nisansa De Silva, Dilith Jayakody, Aloka Fernando

ACL 2024short

We analysed a sample of NLP research papers archived in ACL Anthology as an attempt to quantify the degree of openness and the benefit of such an open culture in the NLP community. We observe that papers published in different NLP venues show different patterns related to artefact reuse. We also not…

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