- Faculty of Engineering
- Department of Computer Science & Engineering
- Senior Lecturer Grade II
CV
Contact information
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
University of Moratuwa
Moratuwa
10400
Teaching and Administrative Activities
Research Activities
Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)
Artificial Intelligence , Natural Language Processing
Education and Professional Affiliations
Bachelors, University of Moratuwa ,2011 B.Sc Engineering (Hons)
Masters, University of Oregon ,2016 Computer & Information Science
PhD, University of Oregon ,2020
Institution of Engineers(2011 To date)
ACM(2021 To date)
Career
Honours and Awards
Publications*
Nisansa de Silva, Dejing Dou,".Semantic Oppositeness Assisted Deep Contextual Modeling for Automatic Rumor Detection in Social Networks.",Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume,Online,2021,405--415
G. Ratnayaka, T. Rupasinghe, N. de Silva, M. Warushavithana, V. Gamage, M. Perera, and A. S. Perera,".Classifying Sentences in Court Case Transcripts using Discourse and Argumentative Properties.",International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions,12,2019
P. Wang, L. Ji, J. Yan, D. Dou, N. de Silva, Y. Zhang, and L. Jin,".Concept and Attention-Based CNN for Question Retrieval in Multi-View Learning.",ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST),9,2018
F. Gutierrez, D. Dou, N. de Silva, and S. Fickas,".Online Reasoning for Semantic Error Detection in Text.",Journal on Data Semantics,,2017
V. Jayawardana, D. Lakmal, N. de Silva, A. S. Perera, K. Sugathadasa, B. Ayesha, and M. Perera,".Word Vector Embeddings and Domain Specific Semantic based Semi-Supervised Ontology Instance Population.",International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions,10,2017
Huang, Jingshan and Gutierrez, Fernando and Strachan, Harrison J and Dou, Dejing and Huang, Weili and Smith, Barry and Blake, Judith A and Eilbeck, Karen and Natale, Darren A and Lin, Yu and Wu, Bin and de Silva, Nisansa and others,".OmniSearch: a semantic search system based on the Ontology for MIcroRNA Target (OMIT) for microRNA-target gene interaction data.",Journal of biomedical semantics,7,2016
Huang, Jingshan and Eilbeck, Karen and Smith, Barry and Blake, Judith A and Dou, Dejing and Huang, Weili and Natale, Darren A and Ruttenberg, Alan and Huan, Jun and Zimmermann, Michael T and Jiang,Guoqian and Lin, Yu and Wu, Bin and Strachan, Harrison J. and de Silva,Nisansa and others,".The development of non-coding RNA ontology.",International journal of data mining and bioinformatics,15,2016
S. Lokanathan, G. E. Kreindler, N. H. N. de Silva, Y. Miyauchi, D. Dhananjaya, and R. Samarajiva,".The Potential of Mobile Network Big Data as a Tool in Colombo’s Transportation and Urban Planning.",Information Technologies & International Development,12,2016