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Mr. Sangay Wangchuk
   
Designation: Deputy Director

Organization: Department of Information Technology
URL of Organization: http://www.dit.gov.bt

Profile:

Deputy Director to DIT. Country Project Leader - Dzongkha Component of the PAN Localization Project - Dzongkha Language Computing Project.

Area(s) of Interest: Dzongkha Language Processing.
Language(s) of Interest: Dzongkha and Tibetan.
Email: swangchuk@dit.gov.bt
Telephone: 975-2-323215
Postal Address: DIT, Ministry of Information and Communicatins, Thimphu, Bhutan.

   
 

 

Dr. Ruvan Weerasinghe
   
Designation: Director

Organization: University of Colombo School of Computing
URL of Organization: http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk

Profile:

After returning to Sri Lanka in 1994, he has been involved in the local Internet Initiative which secured connectivity to the inter-university LEARN network and to Sri Lanka as a whole in 1996. In the area of Computational Linguistics, he supervised many undergraduate projects in Sinhala and Tamil languages. After a sabbatical spent at INRIA, France and CMU, Pittsburgh, USA he has concentrated on data-driven approaches to Computational Linguistics. The PAN Localization project has helped the UCSC to set up a Language Technology Research Lab which is already involved in many sub-projects.

Area(s) of Interest: Computational Linguistics (esp. Parsing Technologies and Machine Translation), Computational Intelligence. More generally Agent, Mobile and Internet Technologies.
Language(s) of Interest: Sinhala, Tamil, English.
Email: arw@ucsc.cmb.ac.lk
Telephone: +94 11 2581248/2503152
Postal Address: 35, Reid Avenue, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka.

   
 

 

Viraj Welgama
   
Designation: Research Assistant

Organization: University of Colombo School of Computing
URL of Organization: http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk

Profile: BSc special in Computer Science
Area(s) of Interest: Automatic text summarization, Text to speech systems, Corpus building.
Language(s) of Interest: Sinhala, Hindi
Email: vwelgama@webmail.cmb.ac.lk
Telephone: +94 11 2581245 ext 120
Postal Address: UCSC, 35, Reid Avenue, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka.

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