Damith Premasiri
Damith Premasiri has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2024, most of them on Question answering, Low-resource languages, Semitic languages; often with Ruslan Mitkov, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Mo El-Haj.
OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 5 · 30 works · 99 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14
📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 19 times in our library · 1 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8687
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📚 Shelves 9The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksInformation Systems · 1 workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology · 1 workEducation · 1 workPsychology · 1 workSocial Sciences · 1 work
🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.Semitic languages · 1 workLow-resource languages · 1 workQuestion answering · 1 work
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2020s
Papers
- DARES: Dataset for Arabic Readability Estimation of School Materials (2024 · 15 citations)
DARES tackles Arabic readability estimation for school materials. The authors argue that earlier Arabic corpora, which sample random passages from textbooks, cannot show whether the explanation of a particular concept suits a given grade. DARES instead collects only concept-centred texts: a target term together with… - DTW at Qur'an QA 2022: Utilising Transfer Learning with Transformers for Question Answering in a Low-resource Domain (2022 · 11 citations)
The paper describes the DTW team's entry to the Qur'an QA 2022 shared task. The task is extractive (span-prediction) reading comprehension over Qur'anic passages, a domain with very little annotated data. The organisers supplied QRCD, which has 1,093 question–passage pairs and 1,337 question–passage–answer triplets.…
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- DARES: Dataset for Arabic Readability Estimation of School MaterialsWorkshop on Evaluating Text Difficulty in a Multilingual ContextMo El-Haj, Sultan Almujaiwel, Damith Premasiri, et al.2024 · 15 citations
- DTW at Qur'an QA 2022: Utilising Transfer Learning with Transformers for Question Answering in a Low-resource DomainWorkshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared TasksDamith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Wajdi Zaghouani, et al.2022 · 11 citations
- UK-PRBENCH: A Paragraph-Level Precedent Retrieval Benchmark for United Kingdom Case Law ↗arXiv:2609.24613 · no summary yetDamith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe2026
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- Workshop on Evaluating Text Difficulty in a Multilingual Context: Workshop on Evaluating Text Difficulty in a Multilingual Context 2024
- Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks: Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks 2022
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