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Surangika Ranathunga

5 accepted papers

2025

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

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

2024

LLMs Assist NLP Researchers: Critique Paper (Meta-)Reviewing

EMNLP 2024main

Claim: This work is not advocating the use of LLMs for paper (meta-)reviewing. Instead, wepresent a comparative analysis to identify and distinguish LLM activities from human activities. Two research goals: i) Enable better recognition of instances when someone implicitly uses LLMs for reviewing act…

2024

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

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…

2024

Unlocking Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Low-Resource Language Translation

NAACL 2024findings

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods are increasingly vital in adapting large-scale pre-trained language models for diverse tasks, offering a balance between adaptability and computational efficiency. They are important in Low-Resource Language (LRL) Neural Machine Translation (NMT) to enh…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2022

Pre-Trained Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Models: A Hope for Low-Resource Language Translation?

ACL 2022findings

What can pre-trained multilingual sequence-to-sequence models like mBART contribute to translating low-resource languages? We conduct a thorough empirical experiment in 10 languages to ascertain this, considering five factors: (1) the amount of fine-tuning data, (2) the noise in the fine-tuning data…

Cited by 33SourcePDFScholar