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. Belay T.D., Ahmed, A.H., Grissom II, A., Ameer, I., Sidorov, G., Kolesnikova, O. and Yimam, S.M., 2025. CULEMO: Cultural Lenses on Emotion--Benchmarking LLMs for Cross-Cultural Emotion Understanding, ACL 2025, (pdf)
  2. Muhammad, S.H., Ousidhoum, N., Abdulmumin, I., Yimam, S.M., Wahle, J.P., Ruas, T., Beloucif, M., De Kock, C., Belay T.D., Ahmad, I.S. and Surange, N., Teodorescu, D., David Ifeoluwa Adelani, A. I., Aji, A.F, Ali, F, Araujo, F., Ayele, A.A., Ignat, O, Panchenko, A., Zhou Y., Mohammad S.M, 2025. SemEval-2025 task 11: Bridging the gap in text-based emotion detection, ACL 2025. (pdf)
  3. Azime, I.A., Tonja, A.L., Belay T.D., Chanie, Y., Balcha, B.F., Abadi, N.H., Ademtew, H.B., Nerea, M.A., Yadeta, D.D., Geremew, D.D. and Slusallek, P., 2024. ProverbEval: Exploring LLM Evaluation Challenges for Low-Resource Language Understanding, NAACL 2025. (pdf)
  4. Muhammad, S. H., Abdulmumin, I., Ayele, A. A., Adelani, D. I., Ahmad, I. S., Aliyu, S. M., Röttger, P., Oppong, A., Bukula, A., Chukwuneke, C. I., Jibril, E. C., Ismail, E. A., Alemneh, E., Gebremichael, H. T., Aliyu, L. J., Beloucif, M., Hourrane, O., Mabuya, R., Osei, S., Rutunda, S, Belay T.D., Guge, T. K., Asfaw, T. T., Wanzare, L. D. A., Onyango, N. O., Yimam, S. M., Ousidhoum, N. AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages. NAACL 2025. (pdf)
  5. Belay T.D., Azime, I.A., Ayele, A.A., Sidorov, G., Klakow, D., Slusallek, P., Kolesnikova, O. and Yimam, S.M., 2024. Evaluating the Capabilities of Large Language Models for Multi-label Emotion Understanding, COLING 2025. (pdf)
  6. Azime, I.A., Tonja, A.L., Belay T.D., Fuge, M.Y., Wassie, A.K., Jada, E.S., Chanie, Y., Sewunetie, W.T. and Yimam, S.M., 2024. Walia-LLM: Enhancing Amharic-LLaMA by Integrating Task-Specific and Generative Datasets. EMNLP 2024. (pdf)
  7. 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, LREC-COLING 2024. (pdf)
  8. 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, RAIL-EACL2023 (pdf)
  9. 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. EMNLP 2023 (pdf)
  10. 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, ICT4DA 2022. (pdf)
  11. Tegegne, T., Abebe, T., Yalewu, B., Belay T.D. (2022): Dialect-Based Noisy Speech Dataset, Pre-Processing Tools, and Recognition Models for Amharic, ICT4DA 2022. (pdf)
  12. 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, ICT4DA 2022. (pdf)
  13. Belay T.D., Ayele, A.A., Gelaye, G., Yimam, S.M., Biemann, C. (2021): Impacts of Homophone Normalization on Semantic Models for Amharic. ICT4DA 2021. (pdf)

Workshop Proceedings

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  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, The Sixth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP 2022) in conjunction with EMNLP 2022, Abu Dhabi, UAE (pdf)
  4. 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)
  5. 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).
  6. 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).