Sinhala is the native language of the Sinhalese people who make up the largest ethnic
group of Sri Lanka. The language belongs to the globe-spanning language tree, Indo …

Natural Language Processing for Government: Problems and Potential Page 1 DRAFT Natural
Language Processing for Government: Problems and Potential Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Nisansa …

Although Sri Lanka is a multi-ethnic country with Sinhala and Tamil being the official
languages, most of the population is familiar with only one of these languages. This results …

Availability of quality parallel data is a major requirement to build a reasonably well
performing statistical machine translation (SMT) system. Thus, developing a decent SMT …

Translation of natural language has always attracted attention of scholars world-wide, be it
manual or machine based. Since, the last six decades machine translation has been …

Machine Translation (MT) is an area in natural language processing, which focuses on
translating from one language to another. Many approaches ranging from statistical methods …

Many languages and cultures are followed by the peoples in India. Most of the peoples are
known only their mother tongue. But in everyday life, the peoples are in the position to get …

This paper discusses the application of classical machine learning approaches to the task of
Dialogue Act Recognition for text-based Sinhala. A study was carried out to identify a …

Analyzing existing machine translation approaches for Sinhala-Tamil official government
documents have revealed the shortcomings when translating named entities. The diverse …

Machine translation is one of the major and the most active areas of Natural language
processing. Machine translation (MT) is an automatic translation of one natural language …