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Chronology

Research presentations

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

    Digital Humanities Congress 2026 · University of Sheffield

    Details

    Presented an evaluation of rule-based and LLM-assisted approaches to extracting structured lexical information from Hiberno-English dictionary material. Presentation details ↗

  2. Modeling Parallel Text: A Multidimensional Typology of Authorship and Transformation

    CASCADE × MECANO Convention 1

    Details

    Presented the multidimensional framework published in the Convention 1 short abstracts. Convention 1 short abstracts ↗

  3. Beyond Translation: Rethinking 'Parallel Text' Across Disciplines

    UCC Digital Humanities Colloquium · University College Cork

    Details

    Presented a cross-disciplinary reframing of the concept of 'parallel text', examining how the term is understood differently across NLP, translation studies, and digital humanities — and what a unified computational treatment would require.

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

    DH2025: Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations · Lisbon, Portugal

    Details

    Presented the published conference abstract on computational comparison of textual transformation in Lady Gregory's retellings of Irish legend. Published abstract ↗

  5. Language Modelling and Visualization for Parallel Text

    CACSSS PhD Lightning Talks · University College Cork · University College Cork

    Details

    Introduced doctoral research on language modelling and visualisation for parallel-text analysis to the CACSSS research community.

  6. 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

    Details

    Presented the research paper at SCSE 2023.

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Service

Academic contributions

  1. Peer Reviewer

    8th International Research Conference on Smart Computing and Systems Engineering (SCSE 2025)

    Details

    Evaluated academic papers on AI, NLP, and Machine Learning research; provided technical assessments and constructive feedback.

  2. Evaluator — System Development Project Poster Presentation

    Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya

    Details

    Served as evaluator for student projects in System Development & Data Science.

  3. Curriculum Development — Foundation to Data Science

    Department of Electrical & Information Engineering, University of Ruhuna

    Details

    External consultant and reviewer for curriculum design covering Python, data preprocessing and acquisition, dimensionality reduction, cross-validation, overfitting and underfitting, and performance metrics.