Abinew Ali Ayele

Director, ICT4D · Bahir Dar University

34publications

Publications

Beyond Majority Voting: Agreement-Based Clustering to Model Annotator Perspectives in Subjective NLP Tasks

Tadesse Destaw Belay, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Eusebio Ricárdez-Vázquez, Olga Kolesnikova, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Seid Muhie Yimam

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026

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

Tadesse Destaw Belay, Dawit Ketema Gete, Abinew Ali Ayele, Olga Kolesnikova, Iqra Ameer, Grigori Sidorov, Seid Muhie Yimam

2026

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POLAR: A Benchmark for Multilingual, Multicultural, and Multi-Event Online Polarization

Usman Naseem, Robert Geislinger, Juan Ren, Sarah N. Kohail, Rudy Alexandro Garrido Veliz, P Sam Sahil, Yiran Zhang, Idris Abdulmumin, Marco Antonio Stranisci, Özge Alacam, Cengiz Acarturk, Aisha Jabr, Saba Anwar, Abinew Ali Ayele, Simona Frenda, Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Elena Tutubalina, Oleg Rogov, Aung Kyaw Htet, Xintong Wang, Surendrabikram Thapa, Kritesh Rauniyar, Tanmoy Chakraborty, MD Arfeen Zeeshan, Dheeraj Kodati, Satya Keerthi, Sahar Moradizeyveh, Firoj Alam, Md Arid Hasan, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Ye Kyaw Thu, Shantipriya Parida, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lilian Diana Awuor Wanzare, Nelson Odhiambo Onyango, Clemencia Siro, Jane Wanjiru Kimani, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Adem Chanie Ali, Martin Semmann, Chris Biemann, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Seid Muhie Yimam

Underline Science Inc. · 2026

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SAINT: Multilingual Span-Level Interpretability for Sentiment Analysis

Seid Muhie Yimam, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Robert Geislinger, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Adaeze Ngozi Ohuoba, Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Abinew Ali Ayele, Martin Semmann, Chris Biemann, Serge Sharoff

2026

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SemEval-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual, Multicultural and Multievent Online Polarization

Usman Naseem, Robert Geislinger, Juan Ren, Sarah N. Kohail, Rudy Garrido Veliz, P Sam Sahil, Yiran Zhang, Marco Antonio Stranisci, Idris Abdulmumin, Özge Alaçam, Cengiz Acartürk, Aisha Jabr, Saba Anwar, Abinew Ali Ayele, Elena Viktorovna Tutubalina, Aung Kyaw Htet, Xintong Wang, Surendrabikram Thapa, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Dheeraj Kodati, Sahar Moradizeyveh, Firoj Alam, Ye Kyaw Thu, Shantipriya Parida, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lilian Wanzare, Nelson Odhiambo Onyango, Clemencia Siro, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Adem Chanie Ali, Martin Semmann, Chris Biemann, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Seid Muhie Yimam

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026

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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 Wanzare, Nelson Odhiambo Onyango, Seid Muhie Yimam, Nedjma Djouhra Ousidhoum

arXiv (Cornell University) · 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

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AM-DETOX: Analyzing Amharic Text Detoxification Using Large Language Models

Abinew Ali Ayele, Seid Muhie Yimam

2025

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Silenced voices: social media polarization and women’s marginalization in peacebuilding during the Northern Ethiopia War

Adem Chanie Ali, Seid Muhie Yimam, Abinew Ali Ayele, Chris Biemann, Martin Semmann

i-com · 2025

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The State of Large Language Models for African Languages: Progress and Challenges

Kedir Yassin Hussen, Walelign Tewabe Sewunetie, Abinew Ali Ayele, Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Seid Muhie Yimam

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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BLEnD: A Benchmark for LLMs on Everyday Knowledge in Diverse Cultures and Languages

Junho Myung, Nayeon Lee, Yi Zhou, Jiho Jin, Rifki Afina Putri, Dimosthenis Antypas, Hsuvas Borkakoty, Eun‐Su Kim, Carla Perez-Almendros, Abinew Ali Ayele, Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto, Yazmín Angélica Ibáñez-García, Hwaran Lee, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Kiwoong Park, Anar Rzayev, Nina White, Seid Muhie Yimam, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Nedjma Djouhra Ousidhoum, José Camacho-Collados, Alice H. Oh

arXiv (Cornell University) · 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 Mehamed, Abinew Ali Ayele, Ebrahim Chekol Jibril, Michael Melese Woldeyohannis, Olga Kolesnikova, Philipp Slusallek, Dietrich Klakow, Seid Muhie Yimam

LREC-COLING 2024 · 2024

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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, Philipp Slusallek, Olga Kolesnikova, Seid Muhie Yimam

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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Exploring Boundaries and Intensities in Offensive and Hate Speech: Unveiling the Complex Spectrum of Social Media Discourse

Abinew Ali Ayele, Esubalew Alemneh Jalew, Adem Chanie Ali, Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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Multilingual and Explainable Text Detoxification with Parallel Corpora

Daryna Dementieva, Nikolay Babakov, Amit Ronen, Abinew Ali Ayele, Naquee Rizwan, Florian Schneider, Xintong Wang, Seid Muhie Yimam, Daniil Moskovskiy, Elisei Stakovskii, Eran Kaufman, Ashraf Elnagar, Animesh Mukherjee, Alexander Panchenko

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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Overview of PAN 2024: Multi-author Writing Style Analysis, Multilingual Text Detoxification, Oppositional Thinking Analysis, and Generative AI Authorship Verification Condensed Lab Overview

Abinew Ali Ayele, Nikolay Babakov, Janek Bevendorff, Xavier Bonet Casals, Berta Chulvi, Daryna Dementieva, Ashaf Elnagar, Dayne Freitag, Maik Fröbe, Damir Korenčić, Maximilian Mayerl, Daniil Moskovskiy, Animesh Mukherjee, Alexander Panchenko, Martin Potthast, Francisco Rangel, Naquee Rizwan, Paolo Rosso, Florian Schneider, Alisa Smirnova, Efstathios Stamatatos, Elisei Stakovskii, Benno Stein, Mariona Taulé, Dmitry Ustalov, Xintong Wang, Matti Wiegmann, Seid Muhie Yimam, Eva Zangerle

Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

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SemRel2024: A Collection of Semantic Textual Relatedness Datasets for 13 Languages

Nedjma Djouhra Ousidhoum, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Mohamed Abdalla, Idris Abdulmumin, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Sanchit Ahuja, Alham F. Aji, Vladimir Araujo, Abinew Ali Ayele, Pavan Baswani, Meriem Beloucif, Chris Biemann, Sofia Bourhim, Christine de Kock, Genet Shanko Dekebo, Oumaima Hourrane, Gopichand Kanumolu, Lokesh Madasu, Samuel Rutunda, Manish Shrivastava, Thamar Solorio, Nirmal Surange, Hailegnaw Getaneh Tilaye, Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, Genta Indra Winata, Seid Muhie Yimam, Saif M. Mohammad

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 · 2024

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AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele, Nedjma Djouhra Ousidhoum, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Seid Muhie Yimam, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Meriem Beloucif, Saif M. Mohammad, Sebastian Ruder, Oumaima Hourrane, Alípio Jorge, Pavel Brazdil, Felermino Ali, Davis David, Salomey Osei, Bello Shehu-Bello, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Samuel Rutunda, Tadesse Belay, Wendimu Baye Messelle, Hailu Beshada Balcha, Sisay Adugna Chala, Hagos Tesfahun Gebremichael, Bernard Opoku, Stephen Arthur

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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AmhEn: Amharic-English Large Parallel Corpus for Machine Translation

Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Olga Kolesnikova, Seid Muhie Yimam, Abinew Ali Ayele, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander F. Gelbukh

Research Square · 2023

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Exploring Amharic Hate Speech Data Collection and Classification Approaches

Abinew Ali Ayele, Seid Muhie Yimam, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Tesfa Tegegne Asfaw, Chris Biemann

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing · 2023

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Multilingual Racial Hate Speech Detection Using Transfer Learning

Abinew Ali Ayele, Skadi Dinter, Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing · 2023

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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

4th Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL), EACL 2023 · 2023

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SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval)

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Seid Muhie Yimam, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Nedjma Djouhra Ousidhoum, Abinew Ali Ayele, Saif M. Mohammad, Meriem Beloucif, Sebastian Ruder

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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The 5Js in Ethiopia: Amharic Hate Speech Data Annotation Using Toloka Crowdsourcing Platform

Abinew Ali Ayele, Skadi Dinter, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Tesfa Tegegne Asfaw, Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann

EAI International Conference on ICT for Development for Africa · 2022

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The Effect of Normalization for Bi-directional Amharic-English Neural Machine Translation

Tadesse Destaw Belay, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Olga Kolesnikova, Seid Muhie Yimam, Abinew Ali Ayele, Silesh Bogale Haile, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander F. Gelbukh

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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Impacts of Homophone Normalization on Semantic Models for Amharic

Tadesse Destaw Belay, Abinew Ali Ayele, Getie Gelaye, Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann

EAI International Conference on ICT for Development for Africa · 2021

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Introducing Various Semantic Models for Amharic: Experimentation and Evaluation with Multiple Tasks and Datasets

Seid Muhie Yimam, Abinew Ali Ayele, Gopalakrishnan Venkatesh, Ibrahim Gashaw, Chris Biemann

Future Internet · 2021

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E-Learning Readiness of Technology Institutes in Ethiopian Public Universities: From the Teachers’ Perspective

Abinew Ali Ayele, Worku Kelemework Birhanie

Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering · 2020

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Exploring Amharic Sentiment Analysis from Social Media Texts: Building Annotation Tools and Classification Models

Seid Muhie Yimam, Hizkiel Mitiku Alemayehu, Abinew Ali Ayele, Chris Biemann

International Conference on Computational Linguistics · 2020

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Readiness, acceptance and use of e-health systems in hospitals and health centers of north western ethiopia

Abinew Ali Ayele

Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science · 2020

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Analysis of the Ethiopic Twitter Dataset for Abusive Speech in Amharic

Seid Muhie Yimam, Abinew Ali Ayele, Chris Biemann

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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Acceptance and use of e-learning systems: the case of teachers in technology institutes of Ethiopian Universities

Abinew Ali Ayele, Worku Kelemework Birhanie

Applied Informatics · 2018

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Ethiopian Public Universities’ Web Site Usability

Worku Kelemework, Abinew Ali Ayele

Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering · 2018

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A Case Study of Acceptance and Use of ElectronicLibrary Services in Universities Based onSO-UTAUT Model

Abinew Ali Ayele, Vuda Sreenivasa Rao

International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering · 2013

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