Publications

Conference Publications

2026

Enhancing Multi-Label Emotion Analysis and Corresponding Intensities for Ethiopian Languages

Tadesse Destaw Belay, Dawit Ketema Gete, Abinew Ali Ayele, Olga Kolesnikova, Grigori Sidorov, Seid Muhie Yimam (2026)

LREC 2026

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2025

A Case Against Implicit Standards: Homophone Normalization in Machine Translation for Languages that use the Ge’ez Script

Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Henok Biadglign Ademtew, Hizkiel Mitiku Alemayehu, Negasi Haile Abadi, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Seid Muhie Yimam (2025)

EMNLP 2025

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AfroXLMR-Social: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for African Languages Social Media Text

Tadesse Destaw Belay, Israel Abebe Azime, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Seid Muhie Yimam (2025)

EMNLP 2025

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SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin, Seid Muhie Yimam, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Lima Ruas, Meriem Beloucif, Christine De Kock, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Nirmal Surange, Daniela Teodorescu, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Alham Fikri Aji, Felermino Dario Mario Ali, Vladimir Araujo, Abinew Ali Ayele, Oana Ignat, Alexander Panchenko, Yi Zhou, Saif Mohammad (2025)

SemEval 2025

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CULEMO: Cultural Lenses on Emotion - Benchmarking LLMs for Cross-Cultural Emotion Understanding

Tadesse Destaw Belay, Ahmed Haj Ahmed, Alvin Grissom II, Iqra Ameer, Grigori Sidorov, Olga Kolesnikova, Seid Muhie Yimam (2025)

ACL 2025

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ProverbEval: Exploring LLM Evaluation Challenges for Low-resource Language Understanding

Israel Abebe Azime, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Yonas Chanie, Bontu Fufa Balcha, Negasi Haile Abadi, Henok Biadglign Ademtew, Mulubrhan Abebe Nerea, Debela Desalegn Yadeta, Derartu Dagne Geremew, Assefa Atsbiha Tesfu, Philipp Slusallek, Thamar Solorio, Dietrich Klakow (2025)

NAACL 2025

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AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Paul Röttger, Abigail Oppong, Andiswa Bukula, Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke, Ebrahim Chekol Jibril, Elyas Abdi Ismail, Esubalew Alemneh, Hagos Tesfahun Gebremichael, Lukman Jibril Aliyu, Meriem Beloucif, Oumaima Hourrane, Rooweither Mabuya, Salomey Osei, Samuel Rutunda, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Tadesse Kebede Guge, Tesfa Tegegne Asfaw, Lilian Diana Awuor Wanzare, Nelson Odhiambo Onyango, Seid Muhie Yimam, Nedjma Ousidhoum (2025)

NAACL 2025

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Evaluating the Capabilities of Large Language Models for Multi-label Emotion Understanding

Tadesse Destaw Belay, Israel Abebe Azime, Abinew Ali Ayele, Grigori Sidorov, Dietrich Klakow, Philip Slusallek, Olga Kolesnikova, Seid Muhie Yimam (2025)

COLING 2025

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2024

Walia-LLM: Enhancing Amharic-LLaMA by Integrating Task-Specific and Generative Datasets

Israel Abebe Azime, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Mitiku Yohannes Fuge, Aman Kassahun Wassie, Eyasu Shiferaw Jada, Yonas Chanie, Walelign Tewabe Sewunetie, Seid Muhie Yimam (2024)

EMNLP 2024

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EthioLLM: Multilingual Large Language Models for Ethiopian Languages with Task Evaluation

Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Israel Abebe Azime, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Moges Ahmed Ah Mehamed, Abinew Ali Ayele, Ebrahim Chekol Jibril, Michael Melese Woldeyohannis, Olga Kolesnikova, Philipp Slusallek, Dietrich Klakow, Seid Muhie Yimam (2024)

LREC-COLING 2024

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Journal Publications

Workshop Papers

Natural Language Processing in Ethiopian Languages: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities

Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Israel Abebe Azime, Abinew Ali Ayele, Moges Ahmed Mehamed, Olga Kolesnikova, Seid Muhie Yimam (2023)

RAIL @EACL 2023

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Question Answering Classification for Amharic Social Media Community Based Questions

Tadesse Destaw Belay, Seid Muhie Yimam, Abinew Ayele, Chris Biemann (2022)

SIGUL @ LREC 2022

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Preprints

The Rise of AfricaNLP: Contributions, Contributors, and Community Impact (2005-2025)

Tadesse Destaw Belay, Kedir Yassin Hussen, Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Isa Inuwa-Dutse, Abrham Belete Haile, Grigori Sidorov, Iqra Ameer, Idris Abdulmumin, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Vukosi Marivate, Seid Muhie Yimam, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad (2025)

arXiv

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Whispering in Amharic: Fine-tuning Whisper for Low-resource Language

Dawit Ketema Gete, Bedru Yimam Ahamed, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Yohannes Ayana Ejigu, Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Alemu Belay Tessema, Mohammed Oumer Adem, Tadesse Amare Belay, Robert Geislinger, Umma Aliyu Musa, Martin Semmann, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Henning Schreiber, Seid Muhie Yimam (2025)

arXiv

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