Seid Muhie Yimam

Co-Founder · Universität Hamburg

Datasets & corpora Applications Language models

92publications

9models & datasets

8repositories

Models and datasets

uhhlt/amharichatespeechranlp

dataset

EthioNLP · uhhlt

Amharic10K

353 downloads 1updated Apr 2024

uhhlt/am-roberta

model

EthioNLP · uhhlt

fill maskAmharic

206 downloads 7updated Sep 2023mit

afrihate/afrihate

dataset

EthioNLP · afrihate

AmharicAfaan OromoSomaliTigrinya10K

90 downloads 6updated Jun 2025apache-2.0

seyyaw/whisper-finetuned-amharic

model

By an EthioNLP member

automatic speech recognition

78 downloads 1updated Feb 2025apache-2.0

ethiospeech01/whisper-fullft-v3-ethiopian

model

EthioNLP · ethiospeech

22 downloads 0updated Jul 2026

uhhlt/amharic-hate-speech

model

EthioNLP · uhhlt

text classification

20 downloads 0updated Jul 2024mit

uhhlt/amharic-detox

dataset

EthioNLP · uhhlt

13 downloads 0updated Jul 2024

uhhlt/amharic-stopwords

dataset

EthioNLP · uhhlt

Amharicn<1K

7 downloads 1updated Aug 2024apache-2.0

ethiospeech01/whisper-lora-v3-ethiopian

model

EthioNLP · ethiospeech

6 downloads 0updated Jul 2026arXiv:1910.09700

Repositories

uhh-lt/ethiopicmodels

code

Different semantic models for Amharic

Jupyter Notebook

2211 forksupdated Jan 2024

uhh-lt/amharicprocessor

code

Amharic Segmenter and tokenizer

Python

97 forksupdated Jan 2025MIT

uhh-lt/AmharicHateSpeech

code

Amharic Hate Speech - Dataset and classification Models

Jupyter Notebook

83 forksupdated Jul 2024

uhh-lt/ASAB

code

Amharic Sentiment Annotator Bot

Python

61 forkupdated Oct 2021Apache-2.0

seyyaw/amharicnewsclassification

code

Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/amharicnewsclassification

0updated Mar 2015

seyyaw/amharicquestionanswering

code

Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/amharicquestionanswering

Java

0updated Mar 2015

seyyaw/amharictweetextraction

code

Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/amharictweetextraction

Java

0updated Sep 2016

seyyaw/uima-ethiopic-date

code

Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/uima-ethiopic-date

Java

0updated Mar 2015

Publications

AFRILANGTUTOR: Advancing Language Tutoring and Culture Education in Low-Resource Languages with Large Language Models

Tadesse Destaw Belay, Shahriar Kabir Nahin, Israel Abebe Azime, Ocean Monjur, Marek Rei, Chris Biemann, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Seid Muhie Yimam, Anshuman Chhabra

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026

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AmharicStoryQA: A Multicultural Story Question Answering Benchmark in Amharic

Israel Abebe Azime, Abenezer Kebede Angamo, Hana Mekonen Tamiru, Dagnachew Mekonnen Marilign, Philipp Slusallek, Seid Muhie Yimam, Dietrich Klakow

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026

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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 Gelbukh, Eusebio Ricárdez-Vázquez, Olga Kolesnikova, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Seid Muhie Yimam

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 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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Full Fine-Tuning vs. Parameter-Efficient Adaptation for Low-Resource African ASR: A Controlled Study with Whisper-Small

Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Muhammad Yahuza Bello, Hadiza Ali Umar, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Idris Abdulmumin, Seid Muhie Yimam, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad

2026

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

Usman Naseem, Robert Geislinger, Juan Ren, Sarah 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

2026

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Revisiting German Complex Word Identification: Contextualized LLMs and Feature Injection

Thorben Schomacker, Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann, Marina Tropmann-Frick

Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · 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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The Illusion of Cross-Lingual Safety in Low-Resource Languages

Abigail Oppong, P Sam Sahil, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Maryam Ibrahim Mukhtar, Esmael Ahmed Abdu, Tassallah Abdullahi, Jessica Oparebea, Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Idris Abdulmumin, Abubakar Juma Chilala, Nicholaus Dismas Ladislaus, Alfred Malengo Kondoro, Lemofouet Valdini Douglace, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Seid Muhie Yimam

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026

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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

arXiv (Cornell University) · 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 Wanzare, Nelson Odhiambo Onyango, Seid Muhie Yimam, Nedjma 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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Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for African Low-Resource Languages: A Systematic Literature Review

Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Kedir Yassin Husse, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin, Hadiza Ali Umar, Muhammad Yahuza Bello, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Seid Muhie Yimam, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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Automatic Speech Recognition for African Low-Resource Languages: Challenges and Future Directions

Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Babangida Sani, Dawit Ketema Gete, Bedru Yimam Ahmed, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin, Seid Muhie Yimam, Muhammad Yahuza Bello, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad

arXiv (Cornell University) · 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, Iqra Ameer, Grigori Sidorov, Olga Kolesnikova, Seid Muhie Yimam

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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FASCIST-O-METER: Classifier for Neo-fascist Discourse Online

Rudy Alexandro Garrido Veliz, Martin Semmann, Chris Biemann, Seid Muhie Yimam

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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HatePRISM: Policies, Platforms, and Research Integration. Advancing NLP for Hate Speech Proactive Mitigation

Naquee Rizwan, Seid Muhie Yimam, Daryna Dementieva, Florian Skupin, Tim Fischer, Daniil Moskovskiy, Aarushi Ajay Borkar, Robert Geislinger, Punyajoy Saha, Sarthak Roy, Martin Semmann, Alexander Panchenko, Chris Biemann, Animesh Mukherjee

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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KI4Demokratie: An AI-Based Platform for Monitoring and Fostering Democratic Discourse

Rudy Alexandro Garrido Veliz, Till Nikolaus Schaland, Simon Bergmoser, Florian Horwege, Somya Bansal, Ritesh Nahar, Martin Semmann, Jörg Forthmann, Seid Muhie Yimam

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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LECTURE4ALL: A Lightweight Approach to Precise Timestamp Detection in Online Lecture Videos

Viktoria Wrobel, Simon Kazemi, Frank Hammerschmidt, Torben Hannemann, Gregor Stange, Seid Muhie Yimam, Robert Geislinger

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 Rise of AfricaNLP: A Survey of Contributions, Contributors, Community Impact, and Bibliometric Analysis

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

arXiv (Cornell University) · 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 Ibáñez-García, Hwaran Lee, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Kiwoong Park, Anar Rzayev, Nina White, Seid Muhie Yimam, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Nedjma Ousidhoum, José Camacho-Collados, Alice Oh

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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Demarked: A Strategy for Enhanced Abusive Speech Moderation through Counterspeech, Detoxification, and Message Management

Seid Muhie Yimam, Daryna Dementieva, Tim Fischer, Daniil Moskovskiy, Naquee Rizwan, Punyajoy Saha, Sarthak Roy, Martin Semmann, Alexander Panchenko, Chris Biemann, Animesh Mukherjee

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, Tadesse Kebede Guge, Ebrahim Chekol Jibril, Michael Melese Woldeyohannis, Olga Kolesnikova, Philipp Slusallek, Dietrich Klakow, Shengwu Xiong, Seid Muhie Yimam

LREC-COLING 2024 · 2024

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Evaluating Gender Bias in Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages

Walelign Tewabe Sewunetie, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Gashaw Kidanu, Zewdie Mossie, Hussien Seid, Eshete Derb, Seid Muhie Yimam

5th Workshop on African Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP), ICLR 2024 · 2024

workshop Dataset

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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Hate Speech Detection and Classification in Amharic Text with Deep Learning

Samuel Minale Gashe, Seid Muhie Yimam, Yaregal Assabie

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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Large Language Models for Sexual, Reproductive, and Maternal Health Rights*

Walelign Tewabe Sewunetie, Assefa Beza, Hailemariam Abebe, Tesfamariam M. Abuhay, Wasyihun Admass, Hayat Hassen, Tsion Tadesse Haile, Hana Abera Hailemariam, Lydia Debebe, Nurlign Birhan Moges, Nathnael Bekele, Surafel Luleseged Tilahun, Mahlet Berta, Mahlet Mammo, Seid Muhie Yimam, László Kovács

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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Pruning Literals for Highly Efficient Explainability at Word Level

Rohan Kumar Yadav, Bimal Bhattarai, Abhik Jana, Lei Jiao, Seid Muhie Yimam

2024

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SemEval-2024 Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness for African and Asian Languages

Nedjma Ousidhoum, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Mohamed Abdalla, Idris Abdulmumin, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Sanchit Ahuja, Alham Fikri Aji, Vladimir Araujo, Meriem Beloucif, Christine de Kock, Oumaima Hourrane, Manish Shrivastava, Thamar Solorio, Nirmal Surange, Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, Seid Muhie Yimam, Saif M. Mohammad

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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

Nedjma Ousidhoum, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Mohamed Abdalla, Idris Abdulmumin, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Sanchit Ahuja, Alham 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

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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UHH at AVeriTeC: RAG for Fact-Checking with Real-World Claims

Özge Sevgili, Irina Nikishina, Seid Muhie Yimam, Martin Semmann, Chris Biemann

FEVER · 2024

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Uncovering the priorities of scientific research on sustainable development goals : A case study in Ethiopia

Ayalew Kassahun, Seid Muhie Yimam, Yonas Muanenda, Beshir M. Ali, Seleshi Yalew

Sustainable Development · 2024

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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

5th Workshop on African Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP), ICLR 2024 · 2024

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AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele, Nedjma 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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