The Sinhala-Tamil translation system SiTa was adjudged Winner in the e-Swabhimani 2018 Digital Social Impact Awards in the Government & Citizen Engagement category.

SiTa is intended to assist human translators in efficient translation of official government documents from Sinhala-to-Tamil and vice versa. The project has been a collaborative research and development activity by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) and the Centre for National Language Processing (NLP Centre) of the University of Moratuwa along with the Department of Official Languages of the government of Sri Lanka. While the SiTa system is currently being used by translators in the Department of Official Languages and several other government institutions, the R&D work at the University continues towards further improvement and expansion of the system to include the English language as well. The project team includes CSE academics Prof. Gihan Dias, Dr. Surangika Ranathunga, Dr. Uthayasankar Thayasivam and Prof. Sanath Jayasena. Research staff and contributors, in both computing and linguistics domains, include Prof. Sandagomi Coperahewa, Prof. J.B. Dissanayake, Prof. Rohini Paranavithana, Sanoji Ruvinika Perera, Fathima Farhath, Nimasha Dilshani, K. Sarveswaran, Yashothara Shanmugarajah, Mokanarangan Thayaparan, Pranavan Theivendiram, Nafla Marikkar, Ruwanthi Perera, Chandana Bandara, Thusitha Bandara, Lalitha Pieris, Pasan Dissanyake, Umesh Indrajith, Suchitha Dehigaspitiya, Lahiru Wijerathna and M.F.M. Mafaz.