--- title: "Damith Premasiri — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2024), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/damith-premasiri/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/damith-premasiri/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Damith Premasiri # Damith Premasiri Damith Premasiri has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2024, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Low-resource languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Ruslan Mitkov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruslan-mitkov/), [Tharindu Ranasinghe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tharindu-ranasinghe/), [Mo El-Haj](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mo-el-haj/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5086564355) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9222-1959) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5086564355) · [30 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5086564355) · [99 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5086564355&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/damith-premasiri/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 19 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/damith-premasiri/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9888](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/99/#star-9888) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Damith+Premasiri) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Damith+Premasiri) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Damith+Premasiri) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Damith+Premasiri) ## Affiliations [🎓**Lancaster University** Lancaster · United Kingdom 2024–2026 · 11 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/lancaster-university/) · [🎓**University of Wolverhampton** Wolverhampton · United Kingdom 2022–2024 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wolverhampton/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 9 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) · [Education · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/education/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Low-resource languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/damith-premasiri/year/2024/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/damith-premasiri/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[DARES: Dataset for Arabic Readability Estimation of School Materials](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/haj-2024-dares-dataset-arabic-readability-estimation/)** *(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… 2. **[DTW at Qur'an QA 2022: Utilising Transfer Learning with Transformers for Question Answering in a Low-resource Domain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/premasiri-2022-dtw-qur-qa-2022-utilising/)** *(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.… ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[DARES: Dataset for Arabic Readability Estimation of School Materials](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/haj-2024-dares-dataset-arabic-readability-estimation/) [Workshop on Evaluating Text Difficulty in a Multilingual Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/determit/)**Mo El-Haj, Sultan Almujaiwel, Damith Premasiri, et al.*2024 · 15 citations* 2. **[DTW at Qur'an QA 2022: Utilising Transfer Learning with Transformers for Question Answering in a Low-resource Domain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/premasiri-2022-dtw-qur-qa-2022-utilising/) [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/)**Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Wajdi Zaghouani, et al.*2022 · 11 citations* 3. **[UK-PRBENCH: A Paragraph-Level Precedent Retrieval Benchmark for United Kingdom Case Law ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24613) arXiv:2609.24613 · no summary yet**Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe*2026* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ruslan Mitkov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruslan-mitkov/) ×2 - [Tharindu Ranasinghe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tharindu-ranasinghe/) ×2 - [Mo El-Haj](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mo-el-haj/) - [Sultan Almujaiwel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sultan-almujaiwel/) - [Wajdi Zaghouani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wajdi-zaghouani/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Workshop on Evaluating Text Difficulty in a Multilingual Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/determit/): [Workshop on Evaluating Text Difficulty in a Multilingual Context 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/determit/2024/) - [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/): [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/2022/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 19 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [17 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/damith-premasiri/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026