Yasas Senarath

Yasas Senarath

Yasas is a graduate of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Moratuwa. He joined DataSEARCH (Data Science, Engineering and Analytics Hub) just after his graduation. He has worked on a number of Data Science and Natural Language Processing projects.

Brief Description of Project

Abstract

Yasas has a keen interest in research on natural language understanding systems. His current research work is on understanding emotions in short-text such as Tweets. His research focuses not only on the identification of emotions in tweets but also to associate an intensity value to indicate the degree of emotion expressed for each emotion. He has incorporated technologies such as transfer learning, deep learning, and machine learning to model emotions in tweets.

 

Link to Paper - https://aclanthology.org/W18-6230/