The Team

About Us

Meet the researchers behind Similarity.lk — a final-year undergraduate project at SLIIT tackling Sinhala plagiarism detection with modern NLP.

Project Supervisor

Supervised By

// Project Supervisor

Mr. Dinith Primal

Faculty of Computing
Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology

Supervises research in natural language processing and information retrieval. Guided the team through research design, methodology refinement, and model evaluation for the Similarity.lk plagiarism detection system.

✉ dinith@sliit.lk

Group Members

Research Team

Component 1 Lead

IT21187414

Ranaweera R.R.M.I.M.

Sinhala Similarity Plagiarism Detection
mBERT · Siamese Bi-LSTM · Corpus · Faiss

✉ IT21187414@my.sliit.lk

Component 2 Lead

IT21163968

Abhayasiri S.A.U.D.

English→Sinhala Semantic Plagiarism Detection
LaBSE · MarianMT · Bilingual Corpus

✉ IT21163968@my.sliit.lk

Project ID

25-26J-545

Institution

SLIIT Sri Lanka

Degree

B.Sc. (Hons) IT

Academic Year

2025 — 2026

Department

Information Technology