Tadesse Destaw Belay

PhD student · Instituto Politécnico Nacional

36publications

8models & datasets

Models and datasets

Tadesse/AfroXLMR-Social

model

By an EthioNLP member

AmharicSomaliTigrinyaAfaan Oromo

91 downloads 1updated Sep 2025mitarXiv:2503.18247

Tadesse/COMET_score

dataset

By an EthioNLP member

AmharicAfaan Oromo100K

77 downloads 0updated Jul 2025mit

Tadesse/EthioEmo

dataset

By an EthioNLP member

AmharicSomaliTigrinya10K

74 downloads 3updated Nov 2025mitarXiv:2412.17837

Tadesse/EthioEmo-intensities

dataset

By an EthioNLP member

AmharicSomaliTigrinya10K

53 downloads 0updated Nov 2025mitarXiv:2412.17837

Tadesse/English-Amharic-MT-Norm

model

By an EthioNLP member

12 downloads 0updated Feb 2025

Tadesse/English-Amharic-MT-Norm_TD

model

By an EthioNLP member

8 downloads 0updated Feb 2025

Tadesse/English-Amharic-MT-UnNorm

model

By an EthioNLP member

7 downloads 0updated Feb 2025

Tadesse/amharic_qa

dataset

By an EthioNLP member

6 downloads 0updated Apr 2025

Publications

AfrIFact: Cultural Information Retrieval, Evidence Extraction and Fact Checking for African Languages

Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Crystina Zhang, Iffat Maab, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Folasade Peace Alabi, Salomey Osei, Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Nkechinyere Faith Aguobi, Bontu Fufa Balcha, Blessing Sibanda, Davis David, Mouhamadane Mboup, Daud Abolade, Neo Putini, Philipp Slusallek, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Dietrich Klakow

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026

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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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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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Bridging the Culture Gap: A Framework for LLM-Driven Socio-Cultural Localization of Math Word Problems in Low-Resource Languages

Israel Abebe Azime, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Anshuman Chhabra, Dietrich Klakow, Philipp Slusallek

Underline Science Inc. · 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

conferenceDOI Semantic Scholar OpenAlex

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

conferenceDOI Semantic Scholar OpenAlex

MGSM-Pro: A Simple Strategy for Robust Multilingual Mathematical Reasoning Evaluation

Tianyi Xu, Kosei Uemura, Alfred Malengo Kondoro, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Catherine Nana Nyaah Essuman, Ifeoma Okoh, Ganiyat Afolabi, Ayodele Awokoya, David Ifeoluwa Adelani

arXiv (Cornell University) · 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

conferenceDOI Semantic Scholar OpenAlex

Temporal Simultaneity Predicts Annotation Quality in Sentiment Corpora

Idris Abdulmumin, Mokgadi Penelope Matloga, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Botshelo Kondowe, Letlhogonolo Mohleleng, Hareaipha Nkopo Letsoalo, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Vukosi Marivate

arXiv (Cornell University) · 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

conferenceDOI Semantic Scholar OpenAlex

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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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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Evaluation Sheet for Deep Research: A Use Case for Academic Survey Writing

Israel Abebe Azime, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja

arXiv (Cornell University) · 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

arXiv (Cornell University) · 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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Deep Learning-Based Emotion Classification for Amharic Texts

Sileshi Bogale Haile, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Tadesse Kebede Bahiru, Tadesse Birara Akele

EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing · 2024

conferenceDOI Semantic Scholar OpenAlex

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

conferenceACL Anthology arXiv DOI Semantic Scholar OpenAlex Model

Ethiopic Cryptography: An Efficient Hybrid Encryption Algorithm for Reducing Cybersecurity Attack

Tadesse Birara Akele, Tadesse Kebede Bahiru, Tibebu Legesse Molla, Shambel Dessale Fentie, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Almaz Yemataw Marye, Mersha Derese Getaneh

EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing · 2024

conferenceDOI Semantic Scholar OpenAlex

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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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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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 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, Chris Biemann, Tesfa Asfaw

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing · 2023

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Mining Road Traffic Accident Data for Prediction of Accident Severity

Tadesse Kebede Bahiru, V. S. Manjula, Tadesse Birara Akele, Engdaw Ayalew Tesfaw, Tadesse Destaw Belay

2023

conferenceDOI Semantic Scholar OpenAlex

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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Challenges of Amharic Hate Speech Data Annotation Using Yandex Toloka Crowdsourcing Platform

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

2022

other

Dialect-Based Noisy Speech Dataset, Pre-Processing Tools, and Recognition Models for Amharic

Tesfa Tegegne Assfaw, Tsegaye Abebe, Belisty Yalew, Tadesse Destaw Belay

2022

conferenceDOI Semantic Scholar OpenAlex

Emotion Classification for Amharic Social Media Text Comments Using Deep Learning

Sileshi Bogale Haile, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Tadesse Kebede Bahiru, Tadesse Birara Akele

SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022

preprintDOI Semantic Scholar OpenAlex

Question Answering Classification for Amharic Social Media Community Based Questions

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

SIGUL · 2022

otherACL Anthology

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 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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