Publications
I have published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in leading Natural Language Processing conferences and journals. Below is a selected list of publications. For a complete list, please see my Google Scholar profile.
Selected Conference Publications
SUNDER: Selective Unmasking for Text Understanding
Alphaeus Dmonte, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri.
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026).Large-scale Multilingual News Image Captioning with LLMs
Yuji Chen, Purushoth Velayuthan, Alistair Plum, Hansi Hettiarachchi, Saroj Basnet, Menan Velayuthan, Marcos Zampieri, Tharindu Ranasinghe.
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026).APEX-VW: A Document-Level English-Spanish Post-Editing Dataset in the Healthcare Domain
Marie Escribe, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Amal Haddad Haddad, Hansi Hettiarachchi, Damith Premasiri.
Proceedings of the 35th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2026).ltzGLUE: Luxembourgish General Language Understanding Evaluation
Alistair Plum, Felicia Körner, Anne-Marie Lutgen, Laura Bernardy, Fred Philippy, Emilia Milano, Nils Rehlinger, Cedric Lothritz, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Barbara Plank, Christoph Purschke.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Findings 2026).MUNIChus: Multilingual News Image Captioning Benchmark
Yuji Chen, Alistair Plum, Hansi Hettiarachchi, Diptesh Kanojia, Saroj Basnet, Marcos Zampieri, Tharindu Ranasinghe.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026).Do LLMs Judge Distantly Supervised Named Entity Labels Well? Constructing the JudgeWEL Dataset
Alistair Plum, Laura Maria Bernardy, Tharindu Ranasinghe.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026).SmartMatch: Real-Time Semantic Retrieval for Translation Memory Systems
Ernesto L. Estevanell-Valladares, Salima Lamsiyah, Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Ruslan Mitkov, Rafael Muñoz.
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations (EACL 2026).A Survey on Multilingual Mental Disorders Detection from Social Media Data
Ana-Maria Bucur, Marcos Zampieri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Fabio Crestani.
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026).Exploring the Performance of Large Language Models on Subjective Span Identification Tasks
Alphaeus Dmonte, Roland R. Oruche, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri, Prasad Calyam.
Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL 2025).Sinhala Encoder-only Language Models and Evaluation
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Hansi Hettiarachchi, Nadeesha Chathurangi Naradde Vidana Pathirana, Damith Premasiri, Lasitha Uyangodage, Isuri Nanomi Arachchige, Alistair Plum, Paul Rayson, Ruslan Mitkov.
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025).MUSTS: MUltilingual Semantic Textual Similarity Benchmark
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Hansi Hettiarachchi, Constantin Orăsan, Ruslan Mitkov.
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025).What do Large Language Models Need for Machine Translation Evaluation?
Shenbin Qian, Archchana Sindhujan, Minnie Kabra, Diptesh Kanojia, Constantin Orăsan, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Frederic Blain.
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024).Rater Cohesion and Quality from a Vicarious Perspective
Deepak Pandita, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Sujan Dutta, Sarah K. Luger, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh, Marcos Zampieri, Christopher M. Homan.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EMNLP Findings 2024).A Survey of Multimodal Sarcasm Detection
Shafkat Farabi, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Diptesh Kanojia, Yu Kong, Marcos Zampieri.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2024).MentalHelp: A Multi-Task Dataset for Mental Health in Social Media
Nishat Raihan, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Shafkat Farabi, Ana-Maria Bucur, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri.
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024).DORE: A Dataset for Portuguese Definition Generation
Anna Beatriz Dimas Furtado, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Frederic Blain, Ruslan Mitkov.
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024).Guided Distant Supervision for Multilingual Relation Extraction Data: Adapting to a New Language
Alistair Plum, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Christoph Purschke.
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024).NSina: A News Corpus for Sinhala
Hansi Hettiarachchi, Damith Premasiri, Lasitha Uyangodage, Tharindu Ranasinghe.
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024).Vicarious Offense and Noise Audit of Offensive Speech Classifiers
Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Sujan Dutta, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri, Christopher M. Homan, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh.
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023).Quality Estimation-Assisted Automatic Post-Editing
Sourabh Deoghare, Diptesh Kanojia, Frederic Blain, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Pushpak Bhattacharyya.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EMNLP Findings 2023).A Text-to-Text Model for Multilingual Offensive Language Identification
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL Findings 2023).Target-Based Offensive Language Identification
Marcos Zampieri, Skye Morgan, Kai North, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Austin Simmons, Paridhi Khandelwal, Sara Rosenthal, Preslav Nakov.
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023).A Multi-task Learning Framework for Quality Estimation
Sourabh Deoghare, Paramveer Choudhary, Diptesh Kanojia, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Constantin Orăsan.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Findings 2023).Teacher and Student Models of Offensive Language in Social Media
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Findings 2023).ALEXSIS-PT: A New Resource for Portuguese Lexical Simplification
Kai North, Marcos Zampieri, Tharindu Ranasinghe.
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2022).FBERT: A Neural Transformer for Identifying Offensive Content
Diptanu Sarkar, Marcos Zampieri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Alexander Ororbia.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EMNLP Findings 2021).An Exploratory Analysis of Multilingual Word-Level Quality Estimation with Cross-Lingual Transformers
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Constantin Orăsan, Ruslan Mitkov.
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2021).MUDES: Multilingual Detection of Offensive Spans
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri.
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies — Demonstrations (NAACL 2021).TransQuest: Translation Quality Estimation with Cross-lingual Transformers
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Constantin Orăsan, Ruslan Mitkov.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020).Multilingual Offensive Language Identification with Cross-lingual Embeddings
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri.
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020).Offensive Language Identification in Greek
Zesis Pitenis, Marcos Zampieri, Tharindu Ranasinghe.
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020).
Selected Journal Articles
Survey on legal information extraction: current status and open challenges
Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Ruslan Mitkov, Mahmoud El-Haj, Ingo Frommholz.
Knowledge and Information Systems, 2025.Complex Concept-Based Readability Estimation from Arabic Curriculum
Sultan Almujaiwel, Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Mahmoud El-Haj, Ruslan Mitkov.
ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), 2025.Deep learning approaches to lexical simplification: A survey
Kai North, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Matthew Shardlow, Marcos Zampieri.
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 2024.SOLD: Sinhala offensive language dataset
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Isuri Anuradha, Damith Premasiri, Kanishka Silva, Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lasitha Uyangodage, Marcos Zampieri.
Language Resources and Evaluation, 2024.OffensEval 2023: Offensive Language Identification in the Age of Large Language Models
Marcos Zampieri, Sara Rosenthal, Preslav Nakov, Alphaeus Dmonte, Tharindu Ranasinghe.
Natural Language Engineering, 2023.Deep Learning Methods for Extracting Metaphorical Names of Flowers and Plants
Amal Haddad Haddad, Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Ruslan Mitkov.
Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 2023.Offensive Language Identification with Multi-task Learning
Marcos Zampieri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Diptanu Sarkar, Alexander Ororbia.
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 2023.Predicting the type and target of offensive social media posts in Marathi
Marcos Zampieri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Mrinal Chaudhari, Saurabh Sampatrao Gaikwad, Prajwal Krishna, Mayuresh Nene, Shrunali Paygude.
Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2022.An Evaluation of Multilingual Offensive Language Identification Methods for the Languages of India
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri.
Information, 2021.Multilingual Offensive Language Identification for Low-resource Languages
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri.
ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), 2021.Concept Discovery through Information Extraction in Restaurant Domain
Nadeesha Pathirana, Sandaru Seneviratne, Rangika Samarawickrama, Shane Wolff, Charith Chitraranjan, Uthayasanker Thayasivam, Tharindu Ranasinghe.
Computación y Sistemas, 2019.
