Continual Learning

  1. Knowledge-guided Continual Learning for Behavioral Analytics Systems
    Senarath, Yasas, Purohit, Hemant
    The 7th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI)
    2025 PDF ↗
  2. Lifelong Learning Framework for Multilingual Hate Speech Detection in Social Media Streams
    Senarath, Yasas, Purohit, Hemant
    Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS)
    2024 PDF ↗

Emergency Incident Detection

  1. Designing a Human-Centered AI Tool for Proactive Incident Detection Using Crowdsourced Data Sources to Support Emergency Response
    Senarath, Yasas, Mukhopadhyay, Ayan, Purohit, Hemant, Dubey, Abhishek
    Digital Government: Research and Practice
    2024 PDF ↗
  2. Practitioner-Centric Approach for Early Incident Detection Using Crowdsourced Data for Emergency Services
    Senarath, Yasas, Mukhopadhyay, Ayan, Vazirizade, Sayyed Mohsen, Purohit, Hemant, Nannapaneni, Saideep, Dubey, Abhishek
    2021 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
    2021 PDF ↗
  3. Emergency Incident Detection from Crowdsourced Waze Data Using Bayesian Information Fusion
    Senarath, Yasas, Nannapaneni, Saideep, Purohit, Hemant, Dubey, Abhishek
    2020 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT)
    2020 PDF ↗

Streaming Data Modeling

  1. EVO-LYZER: Social Media Mining System for Evolving Communication Behavior Analytics to Aid Climate Change Programs
    Senarath, Yasas, Borth, Amanda, Maibach, Edward, Purohit, Hemant
    Workshop: NOCAPS 2024 - Networks and Opinions on Climate Action in the Public Sphere (NOCAPS)
    2024 PDF ↗
  2. Violence-Inducing Behavior Prevention in Social-Cyber Space
    Senarath, Yasas, Purohit, Hemant, Akerkar, Rajendra
    International Symposium on AI, Data and Digitalization
    2023 PDF ↗
  3. PROBER: A System for Real-time Propaganda Behavior Analytics on Social Media and Web Data Streams
    Senarath, Yasas, Anastasopoulos, Antonios, Thornton, Tonya, Purohit, Hemant
    2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
    2022 PDF ↗
  4. Evaluating the Relevance of UMLS Knowledge Base for Public Health Informatics during Disasters
    Senarath, Yasas, Chan, Jennifer, Purohit, Hemant, Uzuner, Ozlem
    ISCRAM 2021 Conference Proceedings –- 18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM)
    2021 PDF ↗
  5. Evaluating Semantic Feature Representations to Efficiently Detect Hate Intent on Social Media
    Senarath, Yasas, Purohit, Hemant
    2020 IEEE 14th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC)
    2020 PDF ↗
  6. A Comparative Study of Pre-trained Language Models to Filter Informative Code-mixed Data on Social Media during Disasters
    Salemi, Hossein, Senarath, Yasas, Purohit, Hemant
    ISCRAM 2023 Conference Proceedings –- 20th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM)
    2023 PDF ↗
  7. Summarizing Social Media & News Streams for Crisis-related Events by Integrated Content-Graph Analysis: TREC-2023 CrisisFACTS Track
    Salemi, Hossein, Senarath, Yasas, Sharika, Tarin Sultana, Gupta, Anuridhi, Purohit, Hemant
    The Thirty-Second Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC)
    2023 PDF ↗
  8. Efficient Detection of Multilingual Hate Speech by Using Interactive Attention Network with Minimal Human Feedback
    Vitiugin, Fedor, Senarath, Yasas, Purohit, Hemant
    Proceedings of the 13th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci)
    2021 PDF ↗

Human-AI Collaboration

  1. Citizen-Helper System for Human-Centered AI Use in Disaster Management
    Senarath, Yasas, Pandey, Rahul, Peterson, Steve, Purohit, Hemant
    International Handbook of Disaster Research
    2023 PDF ↗
  2. Closing the Knowledge Gap in Designing Data Annotation Interfaces for AI-Powered Disaster Management Analytic Systems
    Ara, Zinat, Salemi, Hossein, Hong, Sungsoo Ray, Senarath, Yasas, Peterson, Steve, Hughes, Amanda Lee, Purohit, Hemant
    Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
    2024 PDF ↗
  3. Human-AI Teaming for COVID-19 Response: A Practice & Research Collaboration Case Study
    Hughes, A, Stephens, Keri K, Peterson, Steve, Purohit, Hemant, Harris, Anastazja G, Senarath, Yasas, Jarvis, S Ashley, Montagnolo, Carolyn E, Nader, Karim
    ISCRAM 2022 Conference Proceedings –- 19th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM)
    2022 PDF ↗
  4. Online-Computer-Mediated Interviews and Observations: Overcoming Challenges and Establishing Best Practices in a Human-Ai Teaming Context
    Stephens, Keri, Nader, Karim, Harris, Anastazja, Montagnolo, Caroline, Hughes, Amanda, Stevens, Ashley, Wijesuriya, Yasas Pramuditha Senarath, Purohit, Hemant
    Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
    2021 PDF ↗

Opinion Mining

  1. A Hybrid Approach for Aspect Extraction from Customer Reviews
    Senarath, Yasas, Jihan, Nadheesh, Ranathunga, Surangika
    The International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer)
    2019 PDF ↗
  2. DataSEARCH at IEST 2018: Multiple Word Embedding Based Models for Implicit Emotion Classification of Tweets with Deep Learning
    Senarath, Yasas, Thayasivam, Uthayasanker
    Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA)
    2018 PDF ↗
  3. ACTSEA: Annotated Corpus for Tamil & Sinhala Emotion Analysis
    Jenarthanan, Rajenthiran, Senarath, Yasas, Thayasivam, Uthayasanker
    2019 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon)
    2019 PDF ↗
  4. Aspect Extraction from Customer Reviews Using Convolutional Neural Networks
    Jihan, Nadheesh, Senarath, Yasas, Ranathunga, Surangika
    2018 18th International Conference on Advances in Ict for Emerging Regions (ICTer)
    2018 PDF ↗
  5. Multi-domain Aspect Extraction using Support Vector Machines
    Jihan, Nadheesh, Senarath, Yasas, Tennekoon, Dulanjaya, Wickramarathne, Mithila, Ranathunga, Surangika
    Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING)
    2017 PDF ↗

Community Resilience

  1. Mining Risk Behaviors from Social Media for Pandemic Crisis Preparedness and Response
    Senarath, Yasas, Peterson, Steve, Purohit, Hemant, Hughes, Amanda L, Stephens, Keri K
    Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS)
    2021 PDF ↗
  2. Eliciting Socio-Technical Research Needs on Countering Violence-Inducing and Hateful Speech in Cyberspace
    Della Vella, Dante, Senarath, Yasas, Hashmi, Ehtesham, Abomhara, Mohamed, Shaikh, Sarang, Igland, Torborg, Dralega, Carol Azungi, Yayilgan, Sule Yildirim, Purohit, Hemant, Akerkar, Rajendra
    Digital Society
    2025 PDF ↗
  3. Towards a Design of Resilience Data Repository for Community Resilience
    Nguyen, Hoang Long, Senarath, Yasas, Purohit, Hemant, Akerkar, Rajendra
    ISCRAM 2021 Conference Proceedings –- 18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM)
    2021 PDF ↗