Sri Lanka, May 30 -- Shanilka Haturusinghe, a computer science undergraduate at the Kelaniya University, has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by becoming the first undergraduate from the university to have research published at a major international venue of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

His paper, titled 'Subasa - Adapting Language Models for Low-resourced Offensive Language Detection in Sinhala', was accepted at the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), one of the world's premier natural language processing conferences.

The research addresses a critical challenge in artificial intelligence: adapting large language models for offensive ...