Tadesse Destaw Belay

Tadesse Destaw Belay

PhD student at CIC, IPN

Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

Conference Proceedings

  1. Atnafu L. T.. Israel A. A., Belay T.D., Mesay G. Y., Moges A. M., Abinew A. A., Ebrahim C. J., Michael M. W., Olga K., Philipp S., Dietrich K. and Yimam, S.M. (2024): EthioLLM: Multilingual Large Language Models for Ethiopian Languages with Task Evaluation, The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, Italy) (pdf)
  2. Muhammad, S. H., Abdulmumin, I., Ayele, A. A., Ousidhoum, N.,Adelani, D. I., Yimam, S. M., Ahmad, I. S., Beloucif, M., Mohammad, S., Ruder, S., Hourrane, O., Brazdil, P., Ali, F. D. M. A., Davis, D., Osei, S., Bello, B. H., Ibrahim, F., Gwadabe, T., Rutunda, S., Belay, T. D., Messelle, W. B., Balcha, H. B., Chala, S. A., Gebremichael, H. A., Opoku, B., and Arthur S. (2023): AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023), Singapore (pdf)
  3. Belay T.D., Tonja A.L., Kolesnikova O., Yimam S. M., Ayele A.A., Haile S.B., Sidorov G., Gelbukh A. (2022): The Effect of Normalization for Bi-directional Amharic-English Neural Machine Translation, International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa (ICT4DA 2022), Bahir Dar, Ethiopia (pdf)
  4. Tegegne, T., Abebe, T., Yalewu, B., Belay T.D. (2022): Dialect-Based Noisy Speech Dataset, Pre-Processing Tools, and Recognition Models for Amharic, International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa (ICT4DA 2022), Bahir Dar, Ethiopia (pdf)
  5. Ayele A.A., Belay T.D., Asfaw, T.T., Dinter S., Yimam S. M., Biemann, C. (2022): The 5Js in Ethiopia: Amharic Hate Speech Data Annotation Using Toloka Crowdsourcing Platform, International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa (ICT4DA 2022), Bahir Dar (pdf)
  6. Belay T.D., Ayele, A.A., Gelaye, G., Yimam, S.M., Biemann, C. (2021): Impacts of Homophone Normalization on Semantic Models for Amharic. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on ICT for Development for Africa (ICT4DA 2021), Bahir Dar, Ethiopia (pdf)

Workshop Proceedings

  1. Israel A. A., Atnafu L. T, Tadesse D. B., Mitiku Y. F., Aman K. W., Eyasu S. J., Yonas C., Walelign T. S., Seid M. Y. (2024): Walia-LLM: Enhancing Amharic-LLaMA by Integrating Task-Specific and Generative Datasets. The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024 2024), AfricaNLP 2024 Workshop, Vienna, Austria. (pdf)
  2. Tonja A. L., Belay T.D., Azime I. A., Ayele A. A., Mehamed M. A., Kolesnikova O., Yimam S. M. (2023): Natural Language Processing in Ethiopian Languages: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities, In the fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) at EACL2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia (pdf)
  3. Muhammad, S. H., Abdulmumin, I., Ayele, A. A., Ousidhoum, N., Adelani, D. I., Yimam, S. M., Ahmad, I. S., Beloucif, M., Mohammad, S., Ruder, S., Hourrane, O., Brazdil, P., Ali, F. D. M. A., Davis, D., Osei, S., Bello, B. H., Ibrahim, F., Gwadabe, T., Rutunda, S., Belay T.D., Messelle, W. B., Balcha, H. B., Chala, S. A., Gebremichael, H. A., Opoku, B., and Arthur S. (2023): AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages, In the fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages, Proceedings of the African NLP in the Era of Large Language Models (AfricaNLP 2023) at ICLR 2023, Rwanda (pdf)
  4. Bahiru, T. K., Manjula, V.S., Akele, T.B., Tesfaw, E.A. and Belay T.D. (2023): Mining Road Traffic Accident Data for Prediction of Accident Severity, In 2023 International Conference on Intelligent Data Communication Technologies and Internet of Things (IDCIoT), REVA University, Bengaluru, India (pdf)
  5. Ayele A.A., Belay T.D., Yimam S. M., Dinter S., Asfaw, T.T., Biemann C. (2022): The 5Js in Ethiopia: Amharic Hate Speech Data Annotation Using Toloka Crowdsourcing Platform, The Sixth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP 2022) in conjunction with EMNLP 2022, Abu Dhabi, UAE (pdf)
  6. Belay T.D., Tonja A.L., Kolesnikova O., Yimam S. M., Ayele A.A., Haile S.B., Sidorov G., Gelbukh A. (2022): The Effect of Normalization for Bi-directional Amharic-English Neural Machine Translation, The Sixth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP 2022) in conjunction with EMNLP 2022, Abu Dhabi, UAE (pdf)
  7. Belay T.D., Yimam, S.M., Ayele, A. A., and Biemann, C. (2022): Question Answering Classification for Amharic Social Media Community Based Questions, The 1st Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL 2022), Marseille, France (pdf)
  8. Belay T.D., Ayele A.A. and Yimam, S.M. (2021): The Development of Pre-processing Tools and Pre-trained Embedding Models for Amharic. Proceedings of The fifth WiNLP (“Widening NLP”) Workshop held in conjunction with EMNLP 2021, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. (pdf).
  9. Belay T.D., Yimam, S. M., Ayele, A.A., Gelaye, G., Biemann, C. (2021): Impacts of Homophone Nor-malization for Amharic Natural Language Processing. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on African Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP) at EACL 2021, Virtual Event (pdf).