Breaking Boundaries: Research Team from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Receives Prestigious Award at EACL 2024

 

We are delighted to share that the exceptional work of a research team from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering has garnered recognition at the esteemed European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) 2024 conference, which is not only ranked A in CORE but also one of the top 20 conferences in Computational Linguistics according to Google metrics. Their paper titled "Quality Does Matter: A Detailed Look at the Quality and Utility of Web-Mined Parallel Corpora'' has received the Low-Resource Paper Award at EACL. This paper focuses  on the quality and usefulness of web-mined parallel corpora.The award is given in recognition of contributions to research on languages or domains with limited data. The research team comprised of research students Mr. Menan Velayuthan, Ms. Aloka Fernando, and Contract Lecturer Ms Charitha Rathnayaka, who were supervised by Dr. Surangika Ranathunga and Dr. Nisansa de Silva.

 

This research was conducted thanks to the generous support from the Google Award for Inclusion Research (AIR) grant (2022) received by Dr. Surangika Ranathunga and Dr. Nisansa de Silva. We extend our heartfelt congratulations to the entire research team for their remarkable accomplishment and look forward to witnessing their continued success in shaping the future of low-resource language computing, which in turn would benefit our mother tongues, Sinhala and Tamil.