Published or Accepted Journal Articles
2023
Supunmali Ahangama, "Relating Social Media Diffusion, Education Level and Cybersecurity Protection Mechanisms to E-Participation Initiatives: Insights from a Cross-Country Analysis", Information Systems Frontiers, 2023.
2022
Y.H.P.P Priyadarshana, L. Ranathunga, "HelaNER 2.0: A Novel Deep Neural Model for Named Entity Boundary Detection", International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA) August 2022 Edition (Volume 13 No 8).
G.S.N. Meedin, H.M.M. Caldera, W.A.S.N. Perera, I. Perera, "A Novel Annotation Scheme to Generate Hate Speech Corpus through Crowdsourcing and Active Learning",International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA) September 2022 Edition (Volume 13 No 11).
Published or Accepted Papers
2023
Rajapaksha,N., Ahangama, S., (2023). "Fine-tuning XLM-R for the detection of Sinhala Hate Speech Content on Social Media", ICARC2023, Sri Lanka.
Hathnapitiya, S., Ahangama, S. & Adikari S., (2023). "Early Detection of Sinhala Fake News in Social Media", ICARC2023, Sri Lanka.
Perera, S., Perera, I., Ahangama, S., (2023), Influence Rank of Hate Users in Twitter: An Analysis during Sri Lanka’s Political and Economic Crisis, International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing 2023, Sri Lanka.
Sarangani Sivarajah, Ahangama, S., (2023), Review of Social Media’s Impact on Initial Coin Offerings, International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing 2023, Sri Lanka
2022
Perera, S., Perera, I., Ahangama, S., (2022). Exploring Twitter Messages during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sri Lanka: Topic Modelling and Emotion Analysis, International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing 2022, Sri Lanka.
Perera, S., Perera, I., Ahangama, S., (2022). The effects of Social Media User Behavioural Factors on Hate Speech Detection, International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing 2022, Sri Lanka.
M. Guruge, S. Ahangama and D. Amarasinghe, (2022). "Analyze Hate Contents on Sinhala Tweets using an Ensemble Method," 2022 2nd International Conference on Advance d Research in Computing (ICARC), 2022, pp. 183-187, doi: 10.1109/ICARC54489.2022.9754160.
M. D. Madhushika, S. Ahangama and D. A. Rajapaksha, (2022). "Analyzing the Impact of Social Media on Sinhala News Dissemination in Mass Media," 2022 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing (ICARC), 2022, pp. 177-182, doi: 10.1109/ICARC54489.2022.9754025.
2021
Priyadarshana Y.H.P.P, Ranathunga L, Amalraj C.R.J, Perera I, (2021). HelaNER: A Novel Approach for Nested Named Entity Boundary Detection. IEEE EUROCON 2021
De Silva, L.H., Ahangama, S.,(2021, December). Singlish to Sinhala Transliteration Using Rule-Based Approach, 16th IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS) 2021 ,
Caldera, M. M., Meedin, G.S.N., Perera, W.A. S. N. & Perera, I. (2021). Classification of Trending Videos in YouTube. From Innovation to Impact 2021. , Sri Lanka
De Silva, H., Ahangama, S., Perera, W.A. S. N. (2021). Sinhala Text Extraction from YouTube Thumbnails using Convolutional Spiking Neural Networks. From Innovation to Impact 2021, Sri Lanka
Silva, E., Nandathilaka, M., Dalugoda, S., Amarasinghe, T., Ahangama, S., Weerasuriya, G.T. (2021). Machine Learning-Based Automated Tool to Detect Sinhala Hate Speech in Images, ICITR 2021, Sri Lanla (awarded Best Paper in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Track)
Caldera, M. M., Meedin, G.S.N., Perera, W.A. S. N. & Perera, I. (2021). Long-Term Trend Analysis for Social Media Content Published During COVID-19 Pandemic. International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing 2022, Sri Lanka
Odatha Bandara, Dumika Jayarathne, Dilshani Shashinika, Lochandaka Ranathunga (2021). Ontology Based Fake News Detection for Sinhala Language, 6th International Conference on Information Technology Research (ICITR) 2021, Sri Lanka
2020
1. Rajapaksha, N., Ahangama, S. & Adikari S. (2020, December). Understanding the Role of Psychological Distance in Hate Speech on Social Media. The Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS) 2020
2. Caldera, M. M., Meedin, G.S.N. & Perera, I. (2020, December). A Peer Recommendation Model to Avoid Hate Speech Engagements in Multiplex Social Networks. From Innovation to Impact 2020. ISBN: 978-0-7381-4428-3
3. Meedin, G.S.N., Caldera, H.M.M., Perera, I.,(2020, December). A User Experience Measuring Technique to Moderate Social Media Contents through Crowdsourcing. From Innovation to Impact 2020. ISBN: 978-0-7381-4428-3
4. Walawage, K.S.A, Ranatunga, L.,(2020, December). Devising of Distinguishable Feature Set for Sinhala and English Script Separation on Social Media Images. From Innovation to Impact 2020,ISBN: 978-0-7381-4428-3
5. Saa, E.D., Ranatunga, L.,(2020, December). Self Reflective and Introspective Feature Model for Hate Content Detection in Sinhala YouTube Videos. From Innovation to Impact 2020, ISBN: 978-0-7381-4428-3
6. Liwera, W.M.P, Ranatunga, L.,(2020,December).Combination of Trigram and Rule-Based Model for Singlish to Sinhala Translation by Focusing Social Media Text. From Innovation to Impact 2020,ISBN: 978-0-7381-4428-3
7. Samarajeewa, S., Ranatunga, L.,(2020, December). An Approach for Resolving Double Character Segmentation in Sinhala Social Media Text Images. From Innovation to Impact 2020, ISBN: 978-0-7381-4428-3
8. Jayasekara, L., Ahangama, S.,(2020, December). Trend Detection in Sinhala Tweets Using Clustering and Ranking Algorithms. From Innovation to Impact 2020, ISBN: 978-0-7381-4428-3
2019
9. Weerasinghe, S N, and Ahangama, S. “A Method to Identify the Current Mood of Social Media Users”, 14th IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS 2019) (18-20 December 2019, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)
2020
2. Caldera, M. M., Meedin, G.S.N. & Perera, I. (2020, November). Time Series Based Trend Analysis for Hate Speech in Sri Lankan Social Media Platforms During COVID 19 Pandemic. 20th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, Sri Lanka,10.1109/ICTer51097.2020.9325491
3. Walawage, K.S.A., Ranathunga, L.,(2020, December). Separation of Sinhala and English scripts in Social Media images. 76th Annual Sessions -2020, Sri Lanka.104,ISSN: 1391-023X
4. Rajapaksha, N., Ahangama, S.(2020, December). Detection of Hate Speech Content in Sinhala Text Using FastText .76th Annual Sessions -2020, Sri Lanka. Page-103,ISSN: 1391-023X
5. Meedin, G.S.N., Caldera H.M.M.,(2020, December). Hate Speech Corpus Generation using Crowd. 76th Annual Sessions - 2020, Sri Lanka. 166,ISSN: 1391-023X
2019
6. Walawage, K.S.A., Ranathunga, L.,(2019, October). Sinhala character identification of Facebook posts. Paper presented at the 75th Annual Sessions -2019, Sri Lanka.120, ISSN: 1391-023X
7. Jayasekara, M.L.P.,Ahangama, S, (2019,October).Trend detection using Sinhala Twitter data. Paper presented at the 75th Annual Sessions -2019, Sri Lanka.119, ISSN: 1391-023X