Papers by Nadeesha Chathurangi Naradde Vidana Pathirana
Sinhala Encoder-only Language Models and Evaluation (2025.acl-long)
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Tharindu Ranasinghe, Hansi Hettiarachchi, Nadeesha Chathurangi Naradde Vidana Pathirana, Damith Premasiri, Lasitha Uyangodage, Isuri Nanomi Arachchige, Alistair Plum, Paul Rayson, Ruslan Mitkov
| Challenge: | Recent advances in language models (LMs) have produced excellent results in many NLP tasks, but their effectiveness is highly dependent on available pre-training resources. |
| Approach: | They propose to collect the largest monolingual corpus for Sinhala and compile a benchmark and evaluate LMs on it. |
| Outcome: | The proposed language models outperform the popular multilingual LMs in downstream NLP tasks. |