--- title: "Hansi Hettiarachchi — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2025), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hansi-hettiarachchi/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hansi-hettiarachchi/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Hansi Hettiarachchi # Hansi Hettiarachchi Hansi Hettiarachchi has 4 papers in our library, in 2021–2025, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Tharindu Ranasinghe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tharindu-ranasinghe/), [Maram I. Alharbi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maram-i-alharbi/), [Ruslan Mitkov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruslan-mitkov/). 4 papers in our library · 2021–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5010768781) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4609-5001) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5010768781) · [58 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5010768781) · [416 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5010768781&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hansi-hettiarachchi/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 25 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hansi-hettiarachchi/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9397](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/94/#star-9397) 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=Hansi+Hettiarachchi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Hansi+Hettiarachchi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Hansi+Hettiarachchi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Hansi+Hettiarachchi) ## Affiliations [🎓**Lancaster University** Lancaster · United Kingdom 2024–2026 · 18 papersEmployment since 2024 · Lecturer in Security and Protection Science, School of Computing and Communications*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/lancaster-university/) · [🎓**Birmingham City University** Birmingham · United Kingdom 2020–2024 · 25 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/birmingham-city-university/) · [🎓**University of Moratuwa** Moratuwa · Sri Lanka 2016–2019 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-moratuwa/) 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 · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hansi-hettiarachchi/year/2025/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hansi-hettiarachchi/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Transformers to Fight the COVID-19 Infodemic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/uyangodage-2021-transformers-fight-covid-19-infodemic/)** *(2021 · 16 citations)* The paper describes the InfoMiner team's entry to the NLP4IF-2021 shared task on the COVID-19 infodemic. The task asked systems to label tweets in English, Arabic and Bulgarian with seven yes/no properties: whether a tweet holds a verifiable factual claim, seems false, matters to the public, is harmful, needs a… 2. **[AHaSIS: Shared Task on Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Dialects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alharbi-2025-ahasis-shared-task-sentiment-analysis/)** *(2025 · 15 citations)* The AHaSIS 2025 shared task addresses a gap in Arabic sentiment analysis. Most labelled resources cover Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and models trained on them transfer poorly to regional dialects. The organisers took MSA hotel reviews from the SemEval-2016 ABSA-Hotels data, collected from Booking.com and… 3. **[ADOR: Dataset for Arabic Dialects in Hotel Reviews: A Human Benchmark for Sentiment Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alharbi-2025-ador-dataset-arabic-dialects-hotel/)** *(2025 · 6 citations)* NLP tools for Arabic are trained mostly on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), so regional dialects remain poorly served. 4. **[Evaluating Large Language Models on Sentiment Analysis in Arabic Dialects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alharbi-2025-evaluating-large-language-models-sentiment/)** *(2025)* The paper asks how well open large language models classify sentiment in dialectal Arabic, a setting with far fewer resources than Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Tharindu Ranasinghe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tharindu-ranasinghe/) ×4 - [Maram I. Alharbi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maram-i-alharbi/) ×3 - [Ruslan Mitkov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruslan-mitkov/) ×3 - [Saad Ezzini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saad-ezzini/) ×3 - [Salmane Chafik](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salmane-chafik/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ranlp/) ×2: [RANLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ranlp/2025/) ×2 - [Workshop on Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lowresnlp/): [Workshop on Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lowresnlp/2025/) - [Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4if/): [Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4if/2021/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 25 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [15 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hansi-hettiarachchi/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026