Publications by Kalpani Anuradha Welivita

Comic Based Learning for Students with Visual Impairments

Visual impairment can affect a student's ability to learn since their concept development when interacting with educational material is being limited. Learning activities based on images and visually rich content are mainstream learning methods, where faci ...

2023

Empathetic Conversational Agents for Distress Support

Kalpani Anuradha Welivita

Due to the increasing demands of today's fast-paced world, mental health concerns are on the rise, which necessitates innovative approaches to provide support to those in need. Open-domain conversational agents known as chatbots, offer a unique opportunit ...

EPFL2023

A survey of consumer health question answering systems

Pearl Pu Faltings, Kalpani Anuradha Welivita

Consumers are increasingly using the web to find answers to their health-related queries. Unfortunately, they often struggle with formulating the questions, further compounded by the burden of having to traverse long documents returned by the search engine ...

Amer Assoc Artificial Intell2023

HEAL: A Knowledge Graph for Distress Management Conversations

Pearl Pu Faltings, Kalpani Anuradha Welivita

The demands of the modern world are increasingly responsible for causing psychological burdens and bringing adverse impacts on our mental health. As a result, neural conversational agents with empathetic responding and distress management capabilities have ...

ASSOC ADVANCEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE2022

A Taxonomy of Empathetic Questions in Social Dialogs

Pearl Pu Faltings, Ekaterina Svikhnushina, Kalpani Anuradha Welivita

Effective question-asking is a crucial component of a successful conversational chatbot. It could help the bots manifest empathy and render the interaction more engaging by demonstrating attention to the speaker's emotions. However, current dialog generati ...

ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL2022

A Large-Scale Dataset for Empathetic Response Generation

Pearl Pu Faltings, Yubo Xie, Kalpani Anuradha Welivita

Recent development in NLP shows a strong trend towards refining pre-trained models with a domain-specific dataset. This is especially the case for response generation where emotion plays an important role. However, existing empathetic datasets remain small ...

ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL2021

A Crowdsourced Gameplay for Whole-Genome Assembly via Short Reads

Kalpani Anuradha Welivita

Next-generation sequencing has revolutionized the field of genomics by producing accurate, rapid and cost-effective genome analysis with the use of high throughput sequencing technologies. This has intensified the need for accurate and performance efficien ...

2020

Comic Digitization through the Extraction of Semantic Content and Style Analysis

Kalpani Anuradha Welivita

Comic book digitization would play a pivotal role in exploring new avenues on how digital comics can be consumed. As of present, the systems capable of doing such a task are limited in capability to achieve complete digitization. This task of digitization ...

IEEE2019

An Interactive Gameplay to Crowdsource Multiple Sequence Alignment of Genome Sequences: Genenigma

Kalpani Anuradha Welivita

Comparative genomics is a field of research that compares genomes of different organisms to identify common patterns. It is a powerful method used to identify the genetic diseases that cause mutations. Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) is an intermediate s ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

A Framework for Adaptive User Interface Generation based on User Behavioural Patterns

Kalpani Anuradha Welivita

The concept of adaptivity is crucial in enterprise software systems with a large user base. Adaptive user interfaces (AUI) is an emerging research area that enables customized user experience based on user activities. Most of the existing studies that are ...

IEEE2019