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Abinew Ali Ayele

7 accepted papers

2025

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 +21
NAACL 2025long

Hate speech and abusive language are global phenomena that need socio-cultural background knowledge to be understood, identified, and moderated. However, in many regions of the Global South, there have been several documented occurrences of (1) absence of moderation and (2) censorship due to the rel…

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2025

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 +2
EMNLP 2025

Language models built from various sources are the foundation of today’s NLP progress. However, for many low-resource languages, the diversity of domains is often limited, more biased to a religious domain, which impacts their performance when evaluated on distant and rapidly evolving domains such a

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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, Philip Slusallek +2
COLING 2025main

Large Language Models (LLMs) show promising learning and reasoning abilities. Compared to other NLP tasks, multilingual and multi-label emotion evaluation tasks are under-explored in LLMs. In this paper, we present EthioEmo, a multi-label emotion classification dataset for four Ethiopian languages,…

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2025

Multilingual and Explainable Text Detoxification with Parallel Corpora

Daryna Dementieva, Nikolay Babakov, Amit Ronen, Abinew Ali Ayele, Naquee Rizwan, Florian Schneider +8
COLING 2025main

Even with various regulations in place across countries and social media platforms (Government of India, 2021; European Parliament and Council of the European Union, 2022), digital abusive speech remains a significant issue. One potential approach to address this challenge is automatic text detoxifi…

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2024

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 +16
NeurIPS 2024poster

Large language models (LLMs) often lack culture-specific everyday knowledge, especially across diverse regions and non-English languages. Existing benchmarks for evaluating LLMs' cultural sensitivities are usually limited to a single language or online sources like Wikipedia, which may not reflect t…

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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 Ah Mehamed, Abinew Ali Ayele +6
COLING 2024main

Large language models (LLMs) have gained popularity recently due to their outstanding performance in various downstream Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, low-resource languages are still lagging behind current state-of-the-art (SOTA) developments in the field of NLP due to insufficie…

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2023

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 +21
EMNLP 2023long main

Africa is home to over 2,000 languages from over six language families and has the highest linguistic diversity among all continents. This includes 75 languages with at least one million speakers each. Yet, there is little NLP research conducted on African languages. Crucial in enabling such researc…

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