Israel Abebe Azime

According to our database, Israel Abebe Azime authored at least 24 papers between 2021 and 2025.

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2025

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, Dietrich Klakow, Philipp Slusallek, Anshuman Chhabra

CoRR, August, 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, Raj Dabre, Toqeer Ehsan, Naome A. Etori, Fauzan Farooqui, Jiahui Geng, Guido Ivetta, Thanmay Jayakumar, Soyeong Jeong, Zheng Wei Lim, Aishik Mandal, Sofia Martinelli, Mihail Minkov Mihaylov, Daniil Orel, Aniket Pramanick, Sukannya Purkayastha, Israfel Salazar, Haiyue Song, Tiago Timponi Torrent, Debela Desalegn Yadeta, Injy Hamed, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Thamar Solorio

CoRR, May, 2025

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

Tadesse Destaw Belay, Israel Abebe Azime, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Seid Muhie Yimam

CoRR, March, 2025

INJONGO: A Multicultural Intent Detection and Slot-filling Dataset for 16 African Languages.

Hao Yu, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Andiswa Bukula, Jian Yun Zhuang, En-Shiun Annie Lee, Tadesse Kebede Guge, Israel Abebe Azime, Happy Buzaaba, Blessing K. Sibanda, Godson Koffi Kalipe, Jonathan Mukiibi, Salomon Kabongo Kabenamualu, Mmasibidi Setaka, Lolwethu Ndolela, Nkiruka Odu, Rooweither Mabuya, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Salomey Osei, Sokhar Samb, Juliet W. Murage, Dietrich Klakow, David Ifeoluwa Adelani

CoRR, February, 2025

AFRIDOC-MT: Document-level MT Corpus for African Languages.

Jesujoba O. Alabi, Israel Abebe Azime, Miaoran Zhang, Cristina España-Bonet, Rachel Bawden, Dawei Zhu, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Clement Odoje, Idris Akinade, Iffat Maab, Davis David, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Neo Putini, David O. Ademuyiwa, Andrew Caines, Dietrich Klakow

CoRR, January, 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, Thamar Solorio, Dietrich Klakow

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, April 29, 2025

IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models.

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jessica Ojo, Israel Abebe Azime, Jian Yun Zhuang, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Xuanli He, Millicent Ochieng, Sara Hooker, Andiswa Bukula, En-Shiun Annie Lee, Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke, Happy Buzaaba, Blessing K. Sibanda, Godson Koffi Kalipe, Jonathan Mukiibi, Salomon Kabongo Kabenamualu, Foutse Yuehgoh, Mmasibidi Setaka, Lolwethu Ndolela, Nkiruka Odu, Rooweither Mabuya, Salomey Osei, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Sokhar Samb, Tadesse Kebede Guge, Tombekai Vangoni Sherman, Pontus Stenetorp

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2025

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

Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2025

INJONGO: A Multicultural Intent Detection and Slot-filling Dataset for 16 African Languages.

Hao Yu, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Andiswa Bukula, Jian Yun Zhuang, En-Shiun Annie Lee, Tadesse Kebede Guge, Israel Abebe Azime, Happy Buzaaba, Blessing Kudzaishe Sibanda, Godson Koffi Kalipe, Jonathan Mukiibi, Salomon Kabongo Kabenamualu, Mmasibidi Setaka, Lolwethu Ndolela, Nkiruka Odu, Rooweither Mabuya, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Salomey Osei, Sokhar Samb, Dietrich Klakow, David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

2024

Uhura: A Benchmark for Evaluating Scientific Question Answering and Truthfulness in Low-Resource African Languages.

Edward Bayes, Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Jonas Kgomo, Tyna Eloundou, Elizabeth Proehl, Kai Chen, Imaan Khadir, Naome A. Etori, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Choice Mpanza, Igneciah Pocia Thete, Dietrich Klakow, David Ifeoluwa Adelani

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, Christian Salamea, Dan John Velasco, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, David Le Meur, Emilio Villa-Cueva, Fajri Koto, Fauzan Farooqui, Frederico Belcavello, Ganzorig Batnasan, Gisela Vallejo, Grainne Caulfield, Guido Ivetta, Haiyue Song, Henok Biadglign Ademtew, Hernán Maina, Holy Lovenia, Israel Abebe Azime, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Jay P. Gala, Jiahui Geng, Jesús-Germán Ortiz-Barajas, Jinheon Baek, Jocelyn Dunstan, Laura Alonso Alemany, Kumaranage Ravindu Yasas Nagasinghe, Luciana Benotti, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Marcelo Viridiano, Marcos Estecha-Garitagoitia, Maria Camila Buitrago Cabrera, Mario Rodríguez-Cantelar, Mélanie Jouitteau, Mihail Mihaylov, Mohamed Fazli Mohamed Imam, Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda, Munkhjargal Gochoo, Munkh-Erdene Otgonbold, Naome A. Etori, Olivier Niyomugisha, Paula Mónica Silva, Pranjal A. Chitale, Raj Dabre, Rendi Chevi, Ruochen Zhang, Ryandito Diandaru, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Santiago Góngora, Soyeong Jeong, Sukannya Purkayastha, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Thanmay Jayakumar, Tiago Timponi Torrent, Toqeer Ehsan, Vladimir Araujo, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Zara Burzo, Zheng Wei Lim, Zheng Xin Yong, Oana Ignat, Joan Nwatu, Rada Mihalcea, Thamar Solorio, Alham Fikri Aji

CoRR, 2024

IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models.

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jessica Ojo, Israel Abebe Azime, Jian Yun Zhuang, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Xuanli He, Millicent Ochieng, Sara Hooker, Andiswa Bukula, En-Shiun Annie Lee, Chiamaka Chukwuneke, Happy Buzaaba, Blessing K. Sibanda, Godson Kalipe, Jonathan Mukiibi, Salomon Kabongo, Foutse Yuehgoh, Mmasibidi Setaka, Lolwethu Ndolela, Nkiruka Odu, Rooweither Mabuya, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Salomey Osei, Sokhar Samb, Tadesse Kebede Guge, Pontus Stenetorp

CoRR, 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, Seid Muhie Yimam

CoRR, 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, Zheng Wei Lim, Paula Mónica Silva, Jocelyn Dunstan, Mélanie Jouitteau, David Le Meur, Joan Nwatu, Ganzorig Batnasan, Munkh-Erdene Otgonbold, Munkhjargal Gochoo, Guido Ivetta, Luciana Benotti, Laura Alonso Alemany, Hernán Maina, Jiahui Geng, Tiago Timponi Torrent, Frederico Belcavello, Marcelo Viridiano, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Dan John Velasco, Oana Ignat, Zara Burzo, Chenxi Whitehouse, Artem Abzaliev, Teresa Clifford, Grainne Caulfield, Teresa Lynn, Christian Salamea Palacios, Vladimir Araujo, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Mihail Mihaylov, Israel Abebe Azime, Henok Biadglign Ademtew, Bontu Fufa Balcha, Naome A. Etori, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Rada Mihalcea, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Maria Camila Buitrago Cabrera, Gisela Vallejo, Holy Lovenia, Ruochen Zhang, Marcos Estecha-Garitagoitia, Mario Rodríguez-Cantelar, Toqeer Ehsan, Rendi Chevi, Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda, Ryandito Diandaru, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Fajri Koto, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Haiyue Song, Aditya Khandavally, Thanmay Jayakumar, Raj Dabre, Mohamed Fazli Mohamed Imam, Kumaranage Ravindu Yasas Nagasinghe, Alina Dragonetti, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Olivier Niyomugisha, Jay Gala, Pranjal A. Chitale, Fauzan Farooqui, Thamar Solorio, Alham Fikri Aji

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 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

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 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, Seid Muhie Yimam

Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

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, Blessing K. Sibanda, Davis David, Lolwethu Ndolela, Jonathan Mukiibi, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, Brian Odhiambo, Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Nnaemeka C. Obiefuna, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Saheed Abdullahi Salahudeen, Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Idris Abdulmumin, Mahlet Taye Bame, Oluwabusayo Olufunke Awoyomi, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Tolulope Anu Adelani, Habiba Abdulganiy Kailani, Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo, Adetola Adeeko, Afolabi Abeeb, Aremu Anuoluwapo, Samuel Olanrewaju, Clemencia Siro, Wangari Kimotho, Onyekachi Raphael Ogbu, Chinedu E. Mbonu, Chiamaka Chukwuneke, Samuel Fanijo, Jessica Ojo, Oyinkansola Awosan, Tadesse Kebede Guge, Sakayo Toadoum Sari, Pamela Nyatsine, Freedmore Sidume, Oreen Yousuf, Mardiyyah Oduwole, Ussen Kimanuka, Kanda Patrick Tshinu, Thina Diko, Siyanda Nxakama, Abdulmejid Tuni Johar, Sinodos Gebre, Muhidin Mohamed, Shafie Abdi Mohamed, Fuad Mire Hassan, Moges Ahmed Mehamed, Evrard Ngabire, Pontus Stenetorp

CoRR, 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

Proceedings of the The 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 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

Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023), 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, Blessing K. Sibanda, Davis David, Lolwethu Ndolela, Jonathan Mukiibi, Tunde Ajayi, Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, Brian Odhiambo, Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Nnaemeka C. Obiefuna, Muhidin Mohamed, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Teshome Mulugeta Ababu, Saheed Abdullahi Salahudeen, Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Idris Abdulmumin, Mahlet Taye Bame, Oluwabusayo Olufunke Awoyomi, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Tolulope Anu Adelani, Habiba Abdulganiyu, Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo, Adetola Adeeko, Afolabi Abeeb, Aremu Anuoluwapo, Samuel Olanrewaju, Clemencia Siro, Wangari Kimotho, Onyekachi Raphael Ogbu, Chinedu E. Mbonu, Chiamaka Chukwuneke, Samuel Fanijo, Jessica Ojo, Oyinkansola Awosan, Tadesse Kebede Guge, Sakayo Toadoum Sari, Pamela Nyatsine, Freedmore Sidume, Oreen Yousuf, Mardiyyah Oduwole, Kanda Patrick Tshinu, Ussen Kimanuka, Thina Diko, Siyanda Nxakama, Sinodos G. Nugussie, Abdulmejid Tuni Johar, Shafie Abdi Mohamed, Fuad Mire Hassan, Moges Ahmed Mehamed, Evrard Ngabire, Jules Jules, Ivan Ssenkungu, Pontus Stenetorp

Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 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, Blessing K. Sibanda, Davis David, Lolwethu Ndolela, Jonathan Mukiibi, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, Brian Odhiambo, Abraham Toluwase Owodunni

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on African Natural Language Processing, 2023

2022

Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web-Crawled Multilingual Datasets.

Julia Kreutzer, Isaac Caswell, Lisa Wang, Ahsan Wahab, Daan van Esch, Nasanbayar Ulzii-Orshikh, Allahsera Tapo, Nishant Subramani, Artem Sokolov, Claytone Sikasote, Monang Setyawan, Supheakmungkol Sarin, Sokhar Samb, Benoît Sagot, Clara Rivera, Annette Rios, Isabel Papadimitriou, Salomey Osei, Pedro Javier Ortiz Suárez, Iroro Orife, Kelechi Ogueji, Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Toan Q. Nguyen, Mathias Müller, André Müller, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nanda Muhammad, Ayanda Mnyakeni, Jamshidbek Mirzakhalov, Tapiwanashe Matangira, Colin Leong, Nze Lawson, Sneha Kudugunta, Yacine Jernite, Mathias Jenny, Orhan Firat, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Sakhile Dlamini, Nisansa de Silva, Sakine Çabuk Balli, Stella Biderman, Alessia Battisti, Ahmed Baruwa, Ankur Bapna, Pallavi Baljekar, Israel Abebe Azime, Ayodele Awokoya, Duygu Ataman, Orevaoghene Ahia, Oghenefego Ahia, Sweta Agrawal, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi

Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2022

2021

MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages.

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jade Z. Abbott, Graham Neubig, Daniel D'souza, Julia Kreutzer, Constantine Lignos, Chester Palen-Michel, Happy Buzaaba, Shruti Rijhwani, Sebastian Ruder, Stephen Mayhew, Israel Abebe Azime, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Perez Ogayo, Aremu Anuoluwapo, Catherine Gitau, Derguene Mbaye, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Seid Muhie Yimam, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Ignatius Ezeani, Rubungo Andre Niyongabo, Jonathan Mukiibi, Verrah Otiende, Iroro Orife, Davis David, Samba Ngom, Tosin P. Adewumi, Paul Rayson, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Gerald Muriuki, Emmanuel Anebi, Chiamaka Chukwuneke, Nkiruka Odu, Eric Peter Wairagala, Samuel Oyerinde, Clemencia Siro, Tobius Saul Bateesa, Temilola Oloyede, Yvonne Wambui, Victor Akinode, Deborah Nabagereka, Maurice Katusiime, Ayodele Awokoya, Mouhamadane Mboup, Dibora Gebreyohannes, Henok Tilaye, Kelechi Nwaike, Degaga Wolde, Abdoulaye Faye, Blessing K. Sibanda, Orevaoghene Ahia, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Kelechi Ogueji, Thierno Ibrahima Diop, Abdoulaye Diallo, Adewale Akinfaderin, Tendai Marengereke, Salomey Osei

Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2021

An Amharic News Text classification Dataset.

Israel Abebe Azime, Nebil Mohammed

Proceedings of the 2nd AfricaNLP Workshop Proceedings, AfricaNLP@EACL 2021, Virtual Event, 2021