Why should the world be more averse to chemical and biological warfare (CBW) than to other forms of war, repeatedly attempting to ban such warfare by means of international law? Is there some objective difference between poison gas or plague bacilli on one hand, and ste...

We have evaluated the 'proto-indica' model that is the proponent of multiple domestication of rice but a single origin of the key genes in 'japonica'. Attainment of non-shattering, a marker; appeared least integral to the initial phases of domestication. The other arche...

<jats:p>Ragging is a form of teasing introduced into Sri Lankan universities with an alleged aim of assimilating new students to the university culture. The origin of ragging is not known and over the years ragging has become a form of violent action and bullying, which...

For English, Named Entity Recognition (NER) is more or less a solved problem. However, for low-resourced and morphologically rich languages such as Sinhala, minimal research has been done. In this paper, we present a novel fine-grained Named Entity (NE) tag set and an N...

Due to technological revolution over the years, bullying which was confined to physical boundaries has now moved online. Denigration or insult is one form of cyberbullying. According to Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team, social media cyberbullying incidents ar...

Different types of deep learning based sentiment classification techniques have been introduced for sentiment analysis, and for Natural Language Processing, in general. However, Sinhala, which is a low resourced, yet morphologically rich language, has not experienced th...

Sentiment Analysis is the process of identifying and categorising the sentiments expressed in a text into positive or negative. The words which carry the sentiments are the keys in sentiment prediction. The SentiWordNet is the sentiment lexicon used to determine the sen...

This paper presents the methodology and overall outcomes from the Training in Action project (TinA), funded by the British Council's Cultural Protection Fund between 2017 and 2019, which has built capacity among 72 employees of the Department of Antiquities of Libya (Do...