Early Ginger Disease Detection Using Deep Learning Approach. - Mesay Gemeda Yigezu; Michael Melese Woldeyohannis; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja (ICAST (1), 2021)

A Parallel Corpora for bi-directional Neural Machine Translation for Low Resourced Ethiopian Languages. - Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Michael Melese Woldeyohannis; Mesay Gemeda Yigezu (ICT4DA, 2021)

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation for Low Resourced Languages: Ometo-English. - Mesay Gemeda Yigezu; Michael Melese Woldeyohannis; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja (ICT4DA, 2021)

CIC at CheckThat!-2022: Multi-class and Cross-lingual Fake News Detection. - Muhammad Arif 014; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Iqra Ameer; Olga Kolesnikova; Alexander F. Gelbukh; Grigori Sidorov; Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque (CLEF (Working Notes), 2022)

CIC NLP at SMM4H 2022: a BERT-based approach for classification of social media forum posts. - Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Olumide Ebenezer Ojo; Mohammed Arif Khan; Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque; Olga Kolesnikova; Grigori Sidorov; Alexander F. Gelbukh (SMM4H@COLING, 2022)

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 (ICT4DA, 2022)

Improving Neural Machine Translation for Low Resource Languages Using Mixed Training: The Case of Ethiopian Languages. - Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Olga Kolesnikova; Muhammad Arif 014; Alexander F. Gelbukh; Grigori Sidorov (MICAI (2), 2022)

Detection of Aggressive and Violent Incidents from Social Media in Spanish using Pre-trained Language Model. - Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Muhammad Arif 014; Olga Kolesnikova; Alexander F. Gelbukh; Grigori Sidorov (IberLEF@SEPLN, 2022)

AfroLM: A Self-Active Learning-based Multilingual Pretrained Language Model for 23 African Languages. - Bonaventure F. P. Dossou; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Oreen Yousuf; Salomey Osei; Abigail Oppong; Iyanuoluwa Shode; Oluwabusayo Olufunke Awoyomi; Chris Chinenye Emezue (CoRR, 2022)

Transformer-based Model for Word Level Language Identification in Code-mixed Kannada-English Texts. - Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Mesay Gemeda Yigezu; Olga Kolesnikova; Moein Shahiki Tash; Grigori Sidorov; Alexander F. Gelbukh (CoRR, 2022)

MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages. - David Ifeoluwa Adelani; Marek Masiak; Israel Abebe Azime; Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Christine Mwase; Odunayo Ogundepo; Bonaventure F. P. Dossou; Akintunde Oladipo; Doreen Nixdorf; Chris Chinenye Emezue; Sana Sabah Al-Azzawi; et al. (AfricaNLP, 2023)

Adapting to the Low-Resource Double-Bind: Investigating Low-Compute Methods on Low-Resource African Languages. - Colin Leong; Herumb Shandilya; Bonaventure F. P. Dossou; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Joel Mathew; Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo; Oreen Yousuf; Zainab Akinjobi; Chris Chinenye Emezue; Shamsudeen Muhammad; Steven Kolawole; Younwoo Choi; et al. (AfricaNLP, 2023)

AfriNames: Most ASR models "butcher" African Names. - Tobi Olatunji; Tejumade Afonja; Bonaventure F. P. Dossou; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Chris Chinenye Emezue; Amina Mardiyyah Rufai; Sahib Singh (AfricaNLP, 2023)

The Less the Merrier? Investigating Language Representation in Multilingual Models. - Hellina Nigatu; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Jugal Kalita (EMNLP (Findings), 2023)

Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages. - Odunayo Ogundepo; Tajuddeen Gwadabe; Clara Rivera; Jonathan H. Clark; Sebastian Ruder; David Ifeoluwa Adelani; Bonaventure Dossou; Abdou Aziz Diop; Claytone Sikasote; Gilles Hacheme; Happy Buzaaba; Ignatius Ezeani; et al. (EMNLP (Findings), 2023)

MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages. - David Ifeoluwa Adelani; Marek Masiak; Israel Abebe Azime; Jesujoba O. Alabi; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Christine Mwase; Odunayo Ogundepo; Bonaventure F. P. Dossou; Akintunde Oladipo; Doreen Nixdorf; Chris Chinenye Emezue; Sana Sabah Al-Azzawi; et al. (IJCNLP (1), 2023)

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 (RAIL, 2023)

Masakhane-Afrisenti at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis using Afro-centric Language Models and Adapters for Low-resource African Languages. - Israel Abebe Azime; Sana Sabah Al-Azzawi; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Iyanuoluwa Shode; Jesujoba O. Alabi; Ayodele Awokoya; Mardiyyah Oduwole; Tosin P. Adewumi; Samuel Fanijo; Oyinkansola Awosan; Oreen Yousuf (SemEval@ACL, 2023)

Adapting to the Low-Resource Double-Bind: Investigating Low-Compute Methods on Low-Resource African Languages. - Colin Leong; Herumb Shandilya; Bonaventure F. P. Dossou; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Joel Mathew; Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo; Oreen Yousuf; Zainab Akinjobi; Chris Chinenye Emezue; Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad; Steven Kolawole; Younwoo Choi; et al. (CoRR, 2023)

MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages. - David Ifeoluwa Adelani; Marek Masiak; Israel Abebe Azime; Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Christine Mwase; Odunayo Ogundepo; Bonaventure F. P. Dossou; Akintunde Oladipo; Doreen Nixdorf; Chris Chinenye Emezue; Sana Sabah Al-Azzawi; et al. (CoRR, 2023)

The African Stopwords project: curating stopwords for African languages. - Chris Emezue; Hellina Nigatu; Cynthia Thinwa; Helper Zhou; Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad; Lerato Louis; Idris Abdulmumin; Samuel Oyerinde; Benjamin Ajibade; Samuel Olanrewaju; Oviawe Joshua; Emeka Onwuegbuzia; et al. (CoRR, 2023)

AfriQA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages. - Odunayo Ogundepo; Tajuddeen R. Gwadabe; Clara E. Rivera; Jonathan H. Clark; Sebastian Ruder; David Ifeoluwa Adelani; Bonaventure F. P. Dossou; Abdou Aziz Diop; Claytone Sikasote; Gilles Hacheme; Happy Buzaaba; Ignatius Ezeani; et al. (CoRR, 2023)

Parallel Corpus for Indigenous Language Translation: Spanish-Mazatec and Spanish-Mixtec. - Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Christian Efraín Maldonado Sifuentes; David Alejandro Mendoza Castillo; Olga Kolesnikova; Noé Alejandro Castro-Sánchez; Grigori Sidorov; Alexander F. Gelbukh (CoRR, 2023)

Enhancing Translation for Indigenous Languages: Experiments with Multilingual Models. - Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Hellina Hailu Nigatu; Olga Kolesnikova; Grigori Sidorov; Alexander F. Gelbukh; Jugal Kalita (CoRR, 2023)

Automatic Translation of Hate Speech to Non-hate Speech in Social Media Texts. - Yevhen Kostiuk; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Grigori Sidorov; Olga Kolesnikova (CoRR, 2023)

Adapting Pretrained ASR Models to Low-resource Clinical Speech using Epistemic Uncertainty-based Data Selection. - Bonaventure F. P. Dossou; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Chris Chinenye Emezue; Tobi Olatunji; Naome A. Etori; Salomey Osei; Tosin P. Adewumi; Sahib Singh (CoRR, 2023)

First Attempt at Building Parallel Corpora for Machine Translation of Northeast India's Very Low-Resource Languages. - Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Melkamu Mersha; Ananya Kalita; Olga Kolesnikova; Jugal Kalita (CoRR, 2023)

AfriSpeech-200: Pan-African Accented Speech Dataset for Clinical and General Domain ASR. - Tobi Olatunji; Tejumade Afonja; Aditya Yadavalli; Chris Chinenye Emezue; Sahib Singh; Bonaventure F. P. Dossou; Joanne I. Osuchukwu; Salomey Osei; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Naome A. Etori; Clinton Mbataku (Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2023)

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)

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 (EMNLP (Findings), 2024)

The Zeno's Paradox of 'Low-Resource' Languages. - Hellina Hailu Nigatu; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Benjamin Rosman; Thamar Solorio; Monojit Choudhury (EMNLP, 2024)

NLP Progress in Indigenous Latin American Languages. - Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi; Sabur Butt; Olga Kolesnikova; Hector G. Ceballos; Alexander F. Gelbukh; Thamar Solorio (NAACL-HLT, 2024)

CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark. - David Romero; Chenyang Lyu; Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo; Santiago Góngora; Aishik Mandal; Sukannya Purkayastha; Jesús-Germán Ortiz-Barajas; Emilio Villa-Cueva; Jinheon Baek; Soyeong Jeong; Injy Hamed; Zheng Xin Yong; et al. (NeurIPS, 2024)

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; Shengwu Xiong 001; et al. (CoRR, 2024)

EthioMT: Parallel Corpus for Low-resource Ethiopian Languages. - Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Olga Kolesnikova; Alexander F. Gelbukh; Jugal Kalita (CoRR, 2024)

CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark. - David Romero; Chenyang Lyu; Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo; Teresa Lynn; Injy Hamed; Aditya Nanda Kishore; Aishik Mandal; Alina Dragonetti; Artem Abzaliev; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Bontu Fufa Balcha; Chenxi Whitehouse; et al. (CoRR, 2024)

InkubaLM: A small language model for low-resource African languages. - Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Bonaventure F. P. Dossou; Jessica Ojo; Jenalea Rajab; Fadel Thior; Eric Peter Wairagala; Aremu Anuoluwapo; Pelonomi Moiloa; Jade Z. Abbott; Vukosi Marivate; Benjamin Rosman (CoRR, 2024)

Overview of HOPE at IberLEF 2024: Approaching Hope Speech Detection in Social Media from Two Perspectives, for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and as Expectations. - Daniel García-Baena; Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi; Sabur Butt; Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; José Antonio García-Díaz; Selen Bozkurt; Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi; Hector G. Ceballos; Rafael Valencia-García; Grigori Sidorov; Luis Alfonso Ureña López; et al. (Proces. del Leng. Natural, 2024)

The Esethu Framework: Reimagining Sustainable Dataset Governance and Curation for Low-Resource Languages. - Jenalea Rajab; Anuoluwapo Aremu; Everlyn Asiko Chimoto; Dale Dunbar; Graham Morrissey; Fadel Thior; Luandrie Potgieter; Jessica Ojo; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Wilhelmina Ndapewa Onyothi Nekoto; Pelonomi Moiloa; Jade Z. Abbott; et al. (ACL (1), 2025)

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 tesfau; Philipp Slusallek; et al. (NAACL (Findings), 2025)

Explainable AI: XAI-guided context-aware data augmentation. - Melkamu Abay Mersha; Mesay Gemeda Yigezu; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Hassan Shakil; Samer Iskander; Olga Kolesnikova; Jugal Kalita (Expert Syst. Appl., 2025)

The Esethu Framework: Reimagining Sustainable Dataset Governance and Curation for Low-Resource Languages. - Jenalea Rajab; Anuoluwapo Aremu; Everlyn Asiko Chimoto; Dale Dunbar; Graham Morrissey; Fadel Thior; Luandrie Potgieter; Jessico Ojo; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Maushami Chetty; Onyothi Nekoto; Pelonomi Moiloa; et al. (CoRR, 2025)

CaMMT: Benchmarking Culturally Aware Multimodal Machine Translation. - Emilio Villa-Cueva; Sholpan Bolatzhanova; Diana Turmakhan; Kareem Elzeky; Henok Biadglign Ademtew; Alham Fikri Aji; Israel Abebe Azime; Jinheon Baek; Frederico Belcavello; Fermin Cristobal; Jan Christian Blaise Cruz; Mary Dabre; et al. (CoRR, 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; Hizkel Mitiku Alemayehu; Negasi Haile Abadi; Tadesse Destaw Belay; Seid Muhie Yimam (CoRR, 2025)

Bilingual Word Level Language Identification for Omotic Languages. - Mesay Gemeda Yigezu; Girma Yohannis Bade; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja; Olga Kolesnikova; Grigori Sidorov; Alexander F. Gelbukh (CoRR, 2025)

Evaluation Sheet for Deep Research: A Use Case for Academic Survey Writing. - Israel Abebe Azime; Tadesse Destaw Belay; Atnafu Lambebo Tonja (CoRR, 2025)