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Peer-reviewed and published

Published work

Rewriting Tradition: Quantifying Change in Lady Gregory's Irish Legends

DH2025: Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations · Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal · 14–18 Jul 2025

Rachel McCarthy, Rasika Edirisinghe, James O'Sullivan, Clíona Ó Gallchoir, Rosane Minghim, Órla Murphy

Summary

Published and presented at DH2025, this work examines textual transformation in Lady Gregory's retellings of Irish legend through computational comparison. The study uses quantitative text analysis to investigate changes in language, style, and textual structure while connecting computational measurements with questions of literary adaptation and transmission.

  • Digital Humanities
  • NLP
  • Literary Analysis
  • Textual Transformation

Sentiment Reason Mining Framework for Analyzing Twitter Discourse on Critical Issues in US Healthcare Industry

2023 International Research Conference on Smart Computing and Systems Engineering (SCSE) · University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka · 29 Jun 2023

Rasika Edirisinghe, P. P. G. Dinesh Asanka

Summary

Presents a machine-learning framework for identifying sentiment and the reasons associated with those opinions in social-media discourse about the US healthcare industry. The approach combines NLP, sentiment analysis, clustering, and topic modelling to extract interpretable patterns from public discussion.

  • Sentiment Analysis
  • NLP
  • Topic Modelling
  • Machine Learning
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Research communicated

Abstracts & presentations

Evaluating Lexical Extraction in Hiberno-English: Rule-Based and LLM-Assisted Approaches

Digital Humanities Congress 2026 · University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK · 2–3 Sep 2026

Rasika Edirisinghe

Summary

Presented an evaluation of rule-based and large-language-model-assisted approaches to extracting structured lexical information from Hiberno-English dictionary material. The work considers how extraction quality can be assessed across structurally different dictionary entries.

  • Digital Humanities
  • NLP
  • LLMs
  • Lexical Extraction
  • Hiberno-English

Modeling Parallel Text: A Multidimensional Typology of Authorship and Transformation

CASCADE × MECANO Convention 1 · 28 Jan 2026

Rasika Edirisinghe

Summary

Published and presented at CASCADE × MECANO Convention 1, this work proposes a multidimensional framework for describing relationships between parallel texts by separating questions of authorship from the degree and nature of textual transformation. The model connects literary-theoretical accounts of textual relation with computational approaches to similarity, reuse, adaptation, and transformation.

  • Parallel Text
  • Text Reuse
  • Digital Humanities
  • Computational Literary Studies
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Active and completed strands

Research projects

Modelling Intertextual Relations under Transformation

Doctoral Research · University College Cork · CASCADE MSCA Doctoral Network

Summary

Investigates how meaningful relationships between texts can be retrieved and evaluated when lexical overlap progressively disappears through paraphrase, obfuscation, adaptation, and allusion. The research combines large-scale semantic retrieval, relation judgement, benchmark construction, and evaluation across a spectrum of textual transformation.

  • Information Retrieval
  • Text Reuse
  • Allusion
  • Semantic Similarity
  • LLMs

Relation-Space Exploration and Visual Analytics for Parallel Text

Doctoral Research · University College Cork · CASCADE MSCA Doctoral Network

Summary

Develops interactive methods for exploring large candidate spaces of textual relations and moving between aggregate patterns and close-reading views. Current work examines retrieval at sentence, paragraph, and chapter level.

  • Visual Analytics
  • Information Retrieval
  • Embeddings
  • Digital Humanities

Trust and Grounding in Agentic Cyber-Physical Systems

Research Secondment · Nimbus Research Centre, Munster Technological University · inTrusted

Summary

Research conducted during the Nimbus secondment examined failures that arise when conversational AI systems translate human instructions into physical action. The work focused on maintaining grounded, action-critical information across planning and tool-use stages.

  • Agentic AI
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Cyber-Physical Systems
  • AI Safety
  • Grounding