2025
Sinhala Encoder-only Language Models and Evaluation
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Hansi Hettiarachchi, Nadeesha Chathurangi Naradde Vidana Pathirana, Damith Premasiri, Lasitha Uyangodage, Isuri Nanomi Arachchige +3
ACL 2025long
Recently, language models (LMs) have produced excellent results in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, their effectiveness is highly dependent on available pre-training resources, which is particularly challenging for low-resource languages such as Sinhala. Furthermore, the scarci…