Dr. K. Sarveswaran
- Senior Lecturer Gr.I
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B.Sc. [Hons] (Peradeniya),
M.Sc. (Moratuwa),
Ph.D. (Moratuwa), CLP - sarves@univ.jfn.ac.lk
- +94212218194
Research Interests:
Natural Language Processing / Computational Linguistics (NLP/CL), e-Learning, ICT4D
Academic Profile
Admin Roles
Activities
Teaching
Publications
Awards
Academic Profile
Dr. Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran
- Ph.D. in Computer Science (Moratuwa, Sri Lanka) [2022]
- M.Sc. in Computer Science (Moratuwa, Sri Lanka) [2011]
- B.Sc. [Hons] in Computer Science (Peradeniya, Sri Lanka) [2006]
Resource person
- 2022: Using web effectively for knowledge gathering for probationary staff – organised by the Staff Development Centre, University of Jaffna
- 2022: ICT Tools for Knowledge and Creative content sharing for Sri Lankan Education Administrative Service officials – organised by the Staff Development Centre, University of Jaffna
- 2016: Workshop on LMS for the staff of Faculty of Science – organised by the Eastern University of Sri Lanka
- 2016: Introduction to eLearning and Learning Management System(LMS) for probationary staff -organised by the Staff Development Centre, University of Jaffna
- 2016: Advanced Usage of LMS for probationary staff -organised by the Staff Development Centre, University of Jaffna
- 2015: Workshop on LMS for ELT staff – organised by the Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffna
- 2015: LMS workshop for the academic staff – organised by the Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce, University of Jaffna
- 2015: Collaboration through Internet tools for Computer Application Assistants – organised by the Staff Development Centre, University of Jaffna
- 2015: A session on Introduction to eLearning and Learning Management System (LMS) for probationary staff – organised by the Staff Development Centre, University of Jaffna
- 2015: A session on accessing LMS accounts for online submission of assignments for probationary staff – organised by the Staff Development Centre, University of Jaffna
- 2014: Workshop on Website Management for Academic and CAA staff – organised by the Staff Development Centre, University of Jaffna
- 2014: Workshop on Open Source Applications for academic staff – organised by the Staff Development Centre, University of Jaffna
- 2014: Workshop on LMS for online Teaching/Learning & Assessment for academic staff – organised by the Staff Development Centre, University of Jaffna
- 2014: Two days workshop on ICT based assessments and evaluations for biological stream staff – organised by the Faculty of Science, University of Jaffna
- 2014: Training on Virtual Learning for staff of Department of Management – organised by the South Eastern University of Sri Lanka
- 2014: Setting up a server for Moodle for the biological stream technical staff – organised by the Faculty of Science, University of Jaffna
- 2014: Setting up a Moodle for the biological stream academic and technical staff – organised by the Faculty of Science, University of Jaffna
- 2014: Introduction to eLearning and Learning Management System for probationary staff – organised by the Staff Development Centre, University of Jaffna
- 2014: Developing a quiz on ICT for Computer Unit Staff – organised by the Computer Unit, University of Jaffna
- 2013: Training workshop for staff on ICT based methods for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment for the staff of biological stream – organised by the Faculty of Science, University of Jaffna
- 2013: Training for academic staff to produce e-resources and conducting ICT based assessments and examination – organised by the Faculty of Science, University of Jaffna
- 2013: Introduction to Learning Management System for the probationary staff – organised by the Staff Development Centre, University of Jaffna
- 2013: Curriculum workshop on LMS for the academic staff – organised by the Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce, University of Jaffna
- 2013: Advanced topics on LMS
- 2010: Web Development using PHP/MySQL for the Academic Staff of APIIT.lk.
Admin Roles
Chairman/President
- Chairperson: Applied Sciences section(B) of the Jaffna Science Association – (2022 – 2023)
- Chairman: Technical Evaluation Committee for the HETC/QIG Project Implemented at the University. (2012 – 2015 December)
- President: Science Teachers’ Common Room (STCR) – A welfare initiative under the Faculty of Science, University of Jaffna (2013 – June, 2014)
Coordinator
- Sub committee on Revamping curriculum for Bachelor Honours in Science and Education degree programme (2022 – Present)
- Faculty coordinator for the Well-Being Centre (WeBe) (2022 – Present)
- Activity Coordinator for Enhancing Learning Resources and Learner Support Services – Improving Relevance & Quality of External Degree Programme (UDG-EDP) under the HETC Project (2013 – 2015).
Counsellor/Advisor
- Counsellor: IEEE Student Branch – University of Jaffna, January 2023 to Present.
- Advisor: IEEE CIS Student branch chapter – University of Jaffna, March 2022 to January 2023.
Member
- Local Language Working Group
- IEEE Senior Member
- Board of the Faculty of Science, University of Jaffna. (2014 October to date)
- Technical Evaluation Committee for the HETC/EDP Project Implemented at the University. (2012 – 2015 December)
Activities
Scholarly Work
- Chief Editor: Proceeding of Jaffna Science Association – 2012, Volume 19 – No. 02. ISSN 1800 – 1300
- Chief Editor: Proceedings of Jaffna Science Association – 2013, Volume 20 – No. 01. ISSN 1800 – 1300
- Chief Editor: Pirayoga Vignana Sudar – 2013: A volume of 14 scientific essays written by university academics and leading professionals in respective fields.
- Editor: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Parsing and its Applications for Indian Languages (PAIL) – 2021
Talks
- “An overview of Natural Language Processing” – A Keynote address at the IEEE Summer School in Computational Intelligence, Sri Lanka held from 12-14 July 2023
- “Tamil Language Computing: the Present and the Future” A chairperson address at the 29th Annual Sessions of Jaffna Science Association, 29-31 March 2023.
- “Tamil morphology” A talk at the Research Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany. October, 2019.
Invited Talk/lecture
- ‘Incubation: Intersection of Academia and Entrepreneurship’ at FiTEN Sacramento 2023 and 36th Annual FeTNA Convention, Sacramento, California on June 30, 2023
- ‘Developing Syntactic Parsers for Tamil’ at a online special lecture series organised by Tamil Mozhiyiyal Sangam, India on March 27, 2021.
- Talk on Linguistic Resources and Tools at Linguistics: Language and Computation organised by the Department of English, University of Colombo on 29 of July, 2019.
Presentations
- Developing deep syntactic parsers for Tamil, Tamil Mozhiyiyal Sangam – online special lecture series – 2021
- Introduction to Computational Linguistics, Computational Linguistic Seminar, organised by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Jaffna – 2021
- ThamizhiUDp: A dependency parser for Tamil, 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing – 2020
- DDSpell – A Data Driven Spell Checker and Suggestion Generator for the Tamil Language, 19th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions 2019
- Computational challenges with Tamil Complex Predicates, International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, Australian National University, Canberra. 9 July 2019
- Recognising Elders using Behavioural Biometrics, Kelaniya International Conference on Advances in Computing and Technology – 2017
- Consumer buying pattern analysis using an efficient approach, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Engineering & Technology – 2016
- Infant Caretaker: A system to identify baby cry and entertain crying baby, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Engineering & Technology – 2016
- அறிவுருவாக்கப் பண்பாட்டுத் தளத்தில் தமிழ் இணையம், தமிழ் விழா – பொன்விழா, திருமறைக் கலாமன்றம் – 2015
- Teaching – Learning and National Examination at the Northern Education Review Symposium which was organized by Ministry of Education, Northern Province 23-24 April 2014
- Hierarchical tag set for rule-based processing of Tamil language, International Conference on Multidisciplinary Approaches – 2014
- தமிழ் கணினி – செய்ய வேண்டியவை, உலகத் தமிழ் இலக்கிய மாநாடு – 2012
- கணினியில் தமிழ், சர்வதேச தமிழ் எழுத்தாளர் மாநாடு – 2011
- Localising Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), Jaffna Science Association – 2010
Reviewer (Indexed Journals)
- National Science Foundation Journal, Sri Lanka (2023)
- Natural Language Engineering by Cambridge University Press. 2023
- Language Sciences by Elsevier – 2022
- Language Resources and Evaluation by Springer – 2022
- The ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP) – 2021
Reviewer (NLP/CL Conferences)
- COLING
- EMNLP
- ACL
Visiting Researcher/Fellow
- Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany – September- November, 2019
- International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) – U.S. Department of State’s premier professional exchange program, December 2019
- Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany – April – August, 2018
Conducted/Organized Workshop
- The 26th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference (online) | July 13-16, 2021 | https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/
lfg2021/ - Workshop on Parsing and its Applications for Indian Languages (PAIL2021), co-located with ICON2021. | December 16, 2021 |https://sites.google.com/
view/pail2021 - International Workshop on Tamil Treebank Annotation (WTTA2021). | April 8-10, 2021 | https://sites.google.com/view/
tamiltreebank/ - Workshop on incorporating ICT components into curriculum for staff of Computer Unit on 18/11/17
- Conducted a training workshop for staff of External Degree Programme Unit on computerizing of administrative works on 2th of November 2015 through HETC/UDG/EDP funding.
- Conducted a training workshop on ICT usage for computer application assistants on a topic ‘Collaboration through Internet tools’ on 14th of July 2015.
- Conducted a session on Introduction to e-Learning at the Induction Programme for Staff which was organized by Staff Development Centre on 20/12/2014.
- 2 Days workshop on Setting up Moodle for Academic staff of Biological Science from 17th to 18th of October 2014 at the Faculty of Science, University of Jaffna.
- Three days workshop on producing e-resources and conducting ICT based assessments and examinations for staff of biological science on 27/11/13 and 29-30/11/2013.
- Crash course on ICT for Teaching – Learning process for academic staff on 26th of November 2013 that was organized by the Staff Development Centre of University of Jaffna.
- Organized a workshop of Mobile Application Development using HTML-5 on 11/8/2013
- Workshop on building websites for Staff of Mathematics and Statistics of Faculty of Science on 15/06/2013
- Conducted a workshop on e-Thakshalawa Learning Content Management System which was organized by the Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka.
Memberships/Organizer
- Director, Serve Foundation (Guarantee) Ltd since 2017.
- Member of Organizing committee of Startupweekend – Vanni that was held at the faculty of engineering on 16-18, December 2016 supported by Techstars and Google for Entrepreneurs.
- A member of project proposal drafting team of HETC/QIG for physical science of Faculty of Science, University of Jaffna.
- Member of Organizing Committee of INET-2015 that was organized by the Internet Society – Sri Lankan chapter on 9/6/2015
- Executive Committee member of Rural Development Society of Nallur South (J/108) since 2015 (NSE/2011/413310/NP)
- Chairman/TEC for e-Portfolio for HETC/QIG/Agriculture in 2014
- Member Steering Committee and Coordinator “Teaching – Learning and National Examinations” of Northern Education System Review project, Ministry of Education, Northern Province. August, 2013 – April, 2014.
- Board member of e-Learning Institute which promoted e-Learning for secondary education from 2013-2016
- Member of TEC for purchasing books & CD/DVD for HETC/QIG/BIOSCI 2013
- Chair, Programme Committee, Internet Society Sri Lankan Chapter, 2012
- Mozilla Representative – Sri Lanka (ReMo) 2011-To date.
- Organizing Committee Member : INET-Colombo – 2011.
- Committer of Mozilla, Joomla! and Moodle, 2008-To date.
- Localization team Leader, Intel Skoool Content Localization and Intel Skoool Healthcare Content Localization (1Mx15), 2011.
- IPv6 working group – University of Moratuwa, 2011.
- Executive Council member – Tamil Heritage Foundation, 2008 – 2011.
- Executive Council member – Internet Society, Sri Lankan Chapter, 2011.
- Organizing Committee Member : Conference on Localized Systems and Applications – 2010.
- Organizing Committee Member : 2010 ICIAfS Post Conference Workshop on ICT for Sustainability – 2010.
- Organizer : Led the Jaffna Tamil website development competition – 2010 for LAKapps and LK Domain Registry, 2010.
- Associate member – The Institute of Localization Professional, 2009/2010.
- Member of IEEE and ACM, 2009-2011.
- Chair: IDN Work Group – International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil, 2009.
- Organizing Committee Member : Simposium on Localized Systems and Applications – 2009.
- Organizer : Certified Localization Profession Program, (2009/2010).
- GC Member – International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil. 2008-2009.
- Student Member, Google Summer of Code-2008, 2008.
- TEC member, ICTA, Sri Lanka. 2008.
- Local Language Computing trainer : Have conducted more than 100 seminars and hands-on workshop on Local Language Computing to University Lecturers, School teachers, students and general public, 2007-2011.
- Localization lead : Led the Tamil Localizations for LAKapps, University of Moratuwa, 2007-2011.
Creative Work (Websites / Book covers / Posters)
- Designed invitation, Cover of the proceeding and certificate designs for the JUICE 2014
- Development websites for General Convocation 2012 and General Convocation for 2013 as per request of convocation committee.
- Took departmental photograph and handbook (2012/13) cover page photograph of Faculty of Science, University of Jaffna
- Developed websites for Staff Development Centre (2013-2016), Department of Zoology, Botany and Zoology (2012 – 2016).
- Developed a website for the department of computer science in 2012 together with Dr. A.Ramanan
Attended Conferences and workshops
- INET – Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2015. [Participant/Organizer]
- Asia Pacific Chapter Leaders’ workshop, Internet Society, 2015.
- Content Development for Open and Distance Learning (3 Days), Batticoloa, 2015.
- International Conference on Multidisciplinary Approaches (iCMA) – 2014. [Presenter]
- Open and Distance Learning workshop (3 Days), Colombo. 2014.
- International Summer School in Advanced Language Engineering, Kathmandu University, Sri Lanka, Sept 1 – Sept 26, 2014.
- JUICE 2014 – Jaffna University International Research Conference (JUICE-2012), Jaffna, 18-19 July 2014. [Participant/Organizer]
- Peradeniya University International Research Sessions, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, July 4-5, 2014. [Participant]
- Sri Lanka Student Workshop on Computer Science, Jaffna, Sri Lanka. 2013. [Participant/Organizer]
- International Summer School in Advanced Language Engineering, Kathmandu University, Nepal, Aug 26 – Sept 21, 2012.
- Summer School in Advanced Language Engineering, Kathmandu University, Nepal, Aug 26 – Sept 21, 2012.
- IPV6 Training, IFS, Kandy, 28-29 July 2012.
- JUICE 2012 – Jaffna University International Research Conference (JUICE-2012), Jaffna, 20-21 July 2012.
- Workshop on Training of Trainers: ICT in Higher Education for Academic Staff, 26-27 May 2012, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.
- Workshop on Research needs for the software industry, Virtusa Auditorium, Orion City, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 4 April 2012.
- INET – Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2011.
- IPv6 workshop, Conducted by APNIC, Sri Lanka, 2011.
- Conference on Localized Systems and Applications, Centre of Excellence in Localized Applications, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2010.
- International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, Sri Lanka, 2010.
- DNS/DNSSEC workshop, Conducted by NRC, Sri Lanka, 2010.
- Tutor-Mentor workshop, Conducted by DEPP, Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka, 2010.
- 20th LK conference and workshops, Organized by LK Domain Registry, 2010.
- ICIAfS 2010 Post Conference Workshop on ICT for Sustainability, University of Jaffna. Sri Lanka, 2010.
- Certified Localization Professional Workshops, Centre of Excellence in
- Localized Applications, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2010.
- Symposium on Localized Systems and Applications, Centre of Excellence in Localized Applications, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2009.
- Certified Localization Professional Workshops, Centre of Excellence in
- Localized Applications, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2009.
- Tamil Internet Conference, University of Cologne, Germany, 2009.
- e-Asia 2009: Asia’s Premier ICT Event, BMICH, Sri Lanka, 2009.
- International Information Technology Conference, BMICH, Sri Lanka, 2008.
- Engineering Research Unit – Symposium, University of Moratuwa, 2007.
- 10th World Tamil cultural conference, University of Malaya, Malaysia, 2007.
Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching
- CSC405M3/CSC405S3: Systems and Network Administration (2019/20, 2020/21)
- CSC303S2/CSC303G2: Data Communication and Computer Networks (2020/2021)
- CSC403X2 – Computer System Administration (2019/20, 2020/21)
- CSC109S2: Introduction to Computer Security and Cryptography (2019/20, 2020/21)
- CSC113SC2: Introduction to Computer Security and Cryptography (2014/15, 2015/16)
- CSC105GC2: Computer Networks and Internet Computing (2011/12)
- CSC104GC2: Practical Computing – I (2011/12,2012/13)
- CSC202GC2: Database Management Systems (2010/11,2011/12,2012/13)
- CSC203SC3: Cryptography and Data Security (2011/12,2012/13,2013/14)
- CSC203GC2: Software Engineering (2011/12,2012/13,2013/14)
- CSC204SC3: e-Technology (2010/11,2011/12)
- CSC204GC2: Practical Computing – II (2010/11,2011/12,2012/13,2013/14)
- CSC301GC2/CSC305GC2: Rapid Application Development (2010/11,2011/12,2012/13,2013/14)
- CSC304GC2/CSC306GC2: Practical Computing – III (2010/11,2011/12,2012/13,2013/14)
Inter-faculty Teaching
- BTM31053 – Networking and Web Designing in Business for 3rd year students of Bachelor of Technology Management Students of Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce. 2013/14. 2015.
- ICT Skills, MBA degree programme, University of Jaffna. 2015.
- Web Designing and Computer Networking for Business, Department of Commerce, University of Jaffna. 2015
- e-Commerce, Faculty of Applied Science, Vavuniya Campus. 2015.
Teaching to other HEIs
- ICT Skills, Open University of Sri Lanka. Jan, 2014 – March, 2014.
- Server Management, Final year general degree Programme, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eastern University, Sri Lanka, 2013-2014.
- Server Management and Computer Networks, Final year general degree Programme, Department of Computer Science, Trincomalee Campus of the Eastern University, Sri Lanka, 2012-2013.
- Linux Server administration, WinSYS Networks, Colombo 2, 2010.
- Web Development, Advanced Technological Insitute, Kurunagar, Jaffna, 2011.
- Computer Networks, Online BIT degree programme, University of Moratuwa, 2010-2011.
- Computer Networks, Online BIT degree programme, University of Moratuwa, 2007-2011.
International teaching
- Course on Challenges for NLP from South Asian Languages for MA in Speech and Language Processing at the University of Konstanz, Germany (October 2023)
Publications
2023
- Ehsan, T., Tehseen, A., Sarveswaran, K., & Ali, A. (2023, September). AlphaBrains@ DravidianLangTech: Sentiment Analysis of Code-Mixed Tamil and Tulu by Training Contextualized ELMo Word Representations. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages (pp. 152-159).
- Leong, W. Q., Ngui, J. G., Susanto, Y., Rengarajan, H., Sarveswaran, K., & Tjhi, W. C. (2023). BHASA: A Holistic Southeast Asian Linguistic and Cultural Evaluation Suite for Large Language Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.06085.
- Liyanage, C., Sarveswaran, K., Nadungodage, T., & Pushpananda, R. (2023, March). Sinhala Dependency Treebank (STB). In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023) (pp. 17-26).
- Sarveswaran, K. & Mahesan, S. (2023, January). Codification of Navalar’s Tamil Grammar. In Proceedings of the first International Conference on Social Sciences and Languages (ICSSL 2023) (291-295).
2022
- Parameswari K. and Sarveswaran K..: “Towards Building a Modern Written Tamil Treebank”, In Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT, SyntaxFest 2021), Sofia, March 21-25, 2022. ACL. [Accepted]
2021
- Sarveswaran, K. and Dias, G., “Building a Part of Speech tagger for the Tamil Language,” 2021 International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), December 2021, pp. 286-291, doi: 10.1109/IALP54817.2021.9675195.
- Dineskumar M., Anankan R., Sarveswaran K., and Dias G.: “Neural-based Tamil Grammar Error Detection” In Proceedings of the Workshop on Parsing and its Applications for Indian Languages – 2021 (PAIL 2021), Online, December 16, 2021. ACL.
- Sarveswaran, K., Dias, G. & Butt, M. ThamizhiMorph: A morphological parser for the Tamil language. Machine Translation 35, 37–70 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/
s10590-021-09261-5
2019
- Keerthana, U., Kirshika, K., Senthaalan, T., Sarveswaran, K. and Dias, G.; DDSpell – A Data Driven Spell Checker and Suggestion Generator for the Tamil Language, In IEEE International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer), Colombo, Sri Lanka, 3-4 September 2019. [Accepted]
- Sarveswaran, K., Dias, G. and Butt, M.: “Using Meta-Morph Rules to develop Morphological Analysers: A case study concerning Tamil”, 14th International Conference on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing,Dresden, Germany, September 23–25, 2019. [Accepted]
- Sarveswaran, K. and Miriam Butt: “Computational Challenges with Tamil Complex Predicates”, In the 24th International Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) Conference, Canberra, Australia, 8-10 July 2019. [Accepted & Presented]
2018
- Sarveswaran, K., Dias, G. and Butt, M.: “ThamizhiFST: A Morphological Analyser and Generator for Tamil Verbs,” 3rd International Conference on Information Technology Research (ICITR), pp. 1-6, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2018. [Accepted and Presented]
2017
- Indrajith, K., Naseer, M. and Sarveswaran, K: “SATS: A Computer Aided Translation Engine”, The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanaka. p.92, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 21 November, 2017.
- Preethiraj, R and Sarveswaran, K.: “Recognising Elders using Behavioural Biometrics”, In Proceedings of the Kelaniya International Conference on Advances in Computing and Technology, p.39, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 28 July, 2017.
2016
- Nifras, M.I. and Sarveswaran, K.: “Consumer buying pattern analysis using an efficient approach”, In IEEE International Conference on Engineering & Technology (ICETECH), pp. 567-570, Coimbatore, India, 17-18 March 2016.
- Biruntha, G. and Sarveswaran, K.: “Infant caretaker: A system to identify baby cry and entertain crying baby”, In IEEE International Conference on Engineering & Technology (ICETECH), pp. 576-579, Coimbatore, India, 17-18 March 2016.
2015
- Achchuthan, Y. and Sarveswaran, K.: “Language Localisation of Tamil using Statistical Machine Translation”, In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer), pp. 125-129, BMICH, Sri Lanka, 24-26 August 2015. [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7377677]
- Jananie, S. and Sarveswaran, K.: “Contextual Spell Checking for Tamil Language”, In proceedings of the 14th Tamil Internet Conference, pp. 379-383, Singapore, May 2015.
2014
- Sarveswaran, K. and Mahesan, S.: “Hierarchical Tag-set for Rule-based Processing of Tamil Language”, In proceeding of the International Conference on Multidisciplinary Approaches (iCMA), p. 115. 2014.
- Jananie, A. and Sarveswaran, K.: “Hybrid Approach for Spell Checking of Tamil Language”, In Proceedings of the Peradeniya University International Research Sessions (iPurse), Sri Lanka, Volume 18, p.401, 2014. [http://dlib.pdn.ac.lk/handle/1/4941]
- Jarachanthan, R. and Sarveswaran, K.: “A Systematic Approach for the Utilisation of Excess Hard Disk Memory of Personal Computers”, In Proceedings of the Peradeniya University International Research Sessions (iPurse), Sri Lanka, Volume 18, p.402, 2014. [http://dlib.pdn.ac.lk/handle/1/4942]
- Shakila, S. and Sarveswaran, K.: “A Hierarchical Approach for Publishing an Electronic Calendar”, In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Sessions, Jaffna Science Association (JSA), Jaffna, p. 25, 2014.
2010
- Randika, H.C., Martin, H.E., Sampath, D.M.R.R., Metihakwala, D.S., Sarveswaran, K., and Wijekoon, M. “Scalable Fault Tolerant Architecture for Complex Event Processing Systems”, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer-2010), Colombo.
2009
- Sarveswaran, K., Nanayakkara, S., Perera, P., Perera, A., and Fernando, S. “Challenges in developing MIS – Case from Government sector”, e-Asia 2009: Asia’s Premier ICT Event, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 2009.
- Sarveswaran, K. and Dias, G. “Tamil Localization Process – A case study”, Tamil Internet Conference – 2009, Germany.
2008
- Sarveswaran K. and Fernando, S. “Role Based Competency Modeling for e-Learning Content Development”, International Information Technology Conference (IITC) – 2008, Colombo.
2007
- Sarveswaran K. and Ratnaweera D. “An Adaptive Technique for Tamil Handwritten Character Recognition”, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent and Advanced Systems 2007, Malaysia.
- Sarveswaran K., Fernando M.S.D, and Perera G.I.U.S. “A Successful growth of the E-Learning System at University of Moratuwa”, ERU Symposium 2007, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2007.
- Balachandren G. and Sarveswaran K. “புலம்பெயர்வால் புலம்பெயரும் தமிழ்ப் பெயர்கள்”, 10th World Tamil Cultural Conference 2007, Malaysia.
Monographs
- Author, Moodle Teacher Guide (In Tamil), University of Moratuwa publications, Sri Lanka. ISBN : 978-955-9027-28-7, 2008.
- Author, Moodle student Guide (In Tamil), University of Moratuwa publications, Sri Lanka. ISBN : 978-955-9027-29-4, 2008.
- Co-Author, Joomla! User Manual, University of Moratuwa publications, Sri Lanka. ISBN: 978-955-9027-25-6, 2008.
- Co-Author, Mozilla Firefox User Guide, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2008.
- Co-Author, Mozilla Thunderbird, University of Moratuwa publications, Sri Lanka, 2008.
Awards
Awards
- Herz Fellowship from the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany (June 2023 – July 2024).
- Member of the team which won the Digital Social Impact award at the e-Suwabhimani 2018 under the category of Government and Citizen Engagement.
- Won the Jury’s mention award for a Mobile App build as a part of a undergraduate project at the mBillionth-2016: Awards South Asia 2016 held in Delhi, India. August 2016. http://www.mbillionth.in/
- The winner of Best Solution Oriented Thesis Award – 2016 for ‘Consumer buying pattern analysis using an efficient approach’ by University Business Linkage Unit of the University of Jaffna. [Together with Nifras Ismail]
- The Winner of National Best e-Content award – 2016 for the ‘Right2Sight: A mobile app to help visually impaired people to use Mobile phone’ by the ICTA, Sri Lanka. http://www.eswabhimani.lk [Together with Samira Gayan]
- The winner of best oral presenter of the Modern Technology and Application track for the paper entitled “Hierarchical Tag-set for Rule-based Processing of Tamil Language”, International Conference on Multidisciplinary Approaches (iCMA), 2014
- Best oral presenter of the Modern Technology and Application award for the paper titled as: “Hierarchical Tag-set for Rule-based Processing of Tamil Language”, International Conference on Multidisciplinary Approaches (iCMA), 2014.
Research Grants
- Received the Prof. V K Samaranayake Publication grant from LK Domain Registry, Sri Lanka to publish a paper at the International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), Singapore. December 11-13, 2021
- Secured a DAAD funding of 30,000 Euros with Prof. G. Dias and Prof. Miriam Butt to organise an International Summer School in Natural Language Engineering from 11-23 March, 2019. www.issale.lk
- Co-investigator of “Development of an early warning system, a risk map and a prediction model for dengue and establishment of role brackish water derived mosquitoes in dengue transmission in Jaffna district” under the research grant No. RPHS/2016/D02 obtained from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Sri Lanka for the period January 2017 – December 2019.
Travel Grants
- Mobility grant of 1,500 Euros per annum under DAAD-PPP from NSF to go to Germany in 2019 and 2020.
- Travel grant from LK Domain Registry to present a paper at the LFG-2019 conference, 8-10 July, 2019, ANU, Australia.
- A grant from CTC to present in a conference on “Redeveloping Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka” held in Toronto, Canada 15-17, January 2017
- DAAD grant to attend the International Summer School in Language Engineering held at UCSC, Colombo. 2014
- A grant from Mozilla Foundation to attend the Mozilla Summit 2013 held in California, USA.
- DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Grant – Received full financial support to attend Summer School in Advanced Language Engineering held in Nepal, 26th August – 21st September 2012, Nepal.