Computational Linguistics

Vision:

• To establish IIT as a leading collaborative research hub for Natural Language Processing (NLP), working with local and international universities.
• To develop AI-driven solutions that minimize language-based barriers in accessing digital resources and services, fostering inclusive digital access.
• To play a key role in the collaborative evolution of advanced AI technologies, including contributions towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Mission:

To advance AI capabilities in low-resource languages, benefiting local communities and contributing to global AI progress.

Key Research Focus Areas:

• Synthetic Data Generation for Low-Resource Languages (LRLs)
• Chatbot Development Projects
• Towards Evaluation of Semantic Drift in Sinhala Language
• Abstractive Text Summarization
• A Pedagogy Promoting Large Language Model (LLM) Literacy
• Cracking Implicitation and Explicitation beyond Structural Equivalence in LRL Machine Translation