Research Overview

Welcome to LDF Research. This site documents the various research and development projects undertaken at the Lanka Data Foundation.

Our mission is to leverage data and advanced technology to provide insights and tools relevant to Sri Lanka.

Current Projects

Legislative Analysis

A system for analyzing Sri Lankan legislative acts using Large Language Models (LLMs). This project automates the extraction of summaries, entities, and structural details from PDF documents.

DeepSeek OCR

Research into using DeepSeek models for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), aiming to improve text extraction from scanned documents.

Gazette Analysis

Tools for extracting and processing Sri Lankan government gazette data. Includes LLM-based extraction of ministry structures, amendments, and personnel appointments, along with a versioning system to track structural changes over time.