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Question Answering Classification for Amharic Social Media Community Based Questions
Published in SIGUL @ LREC 2022, 2022
Question Answering Classification for Amharic Social Media Community Based Questions.
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Natural Language Processing in Ethiopian Languages: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities
Published in RAIL @EACL 2023, 2023
Natural Language Processing in Ethiopian Languages: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities.
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EthioLLM: Multilingual Large Language Models for Ethiopian Languages with Task Evaluation
Published in LREC-COLING 2024, 2024
EthioLLM: Multilingual Large Language Models for Ethiopian Languages with Task Evaluation.
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Walia-LLM: Enhancing Amharic-LLaMA by Integrating Task-Specific and Generative Datasets
Published in EMNLP 2024, 2024
Walia-LLM: Enhancing Amharic-LLaMA by Integrating Task-Specific and Generative Datasets.
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Evaluating the Capabilities of Large Language Models for Multi-label Emotion Understanding
Published in COLING 2025, 2025
Evaluating the Capabilities of Large Language Models for Multi-label Emotion Understanding.
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Whispering in Amharic: Fine-tuning Whisper for Low-resource Language
Published in arXiv, 2025
Whispering in Amharic: Fine-tuning Whisper for Low-resource Language.
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AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages
Published in NAACL 2025, 2025
AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages.
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ProverbEval: Exploring LLM Evaluation Challenges for Low-resource Language Understanding
Published in NAACL 2025, 2025
ProverbEval: Exploring LLM Evaluation Challenges for Low-resource Language Understanding.
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CULEMO: Cultural Lenses on Emotion - Benchmarking LLMs for Cross-Cultural Emotion Understanding
Published in ACL 2025, 2025
CULEMO: Cultural Lenses on Emotion - Benchmarking LLMs for Cross-Cultural Emotion Understanding.
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SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection
Published in SemEval 2025, 2025
SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection.
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The Rise of AfricaNLP: Contributions, Contributors, and Community Impact (2005-2025)
Published in arXiv, 2025
The Rise of AfricaNLP: Contributions, Contributors, and Community Impact (2005-2025).
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AfroXLMR-Social: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for African Languages Social Media Text
Published in EMNLP 2025, 2025
AfroXLMR-Social: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for African Languages Social Media Text.
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A Case Against Implicit Standards: Homophone Normalization in Machine Translation for Languages that use the Ge’ez Script
Published in EMNLP 2025, 2025
A Case Against Implicit Standards: Homophone Normalization in Machine Translation for Languages that use the Ge’ez Script.
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Enhancing Multi-Label Emotion Analysis and Corresponding Intensities for Ethiopian Languages
Published in LREC 2026, 2026
Enhancing Multi-Label Emotion Analysis and Corresponding Intensities for Ethiopian Languages.
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Rethinking NLP for Global Diversity Permalink
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Undergraduate Lecturer
Undergraduate course, Kombolcha Institute of Technology, Wollo University, 2021
Role: Lecturer
Period: Sep 2021 - Aug 2023
Location: Kombolcha, Ethiopia