Atnafu Lambebo Tonja

According to our database, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja authored at least 38 papers between 2021 and 2024.

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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, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Salud María Jiménez-Zafra

Proces. del Leng. Natural, 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 Abbott, Vukosi Marivate, Benjamin Rosman

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

EthioMT: Parallel Corpus for Low-resource Ethiopian Languages.

Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Olga Kolesnikova, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Jugal Kalita

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

NLP Progress in Indigenous Latin American Languages.

Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt, Olga Kolesnikova, Hector G. Ceballos, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Thamar Solorio

Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

The Zeno's Paradox of 'Low-Resource' Languages.

Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Benjamin Rosman, Thamar Solorio, Monojit Choudhury

Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 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

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

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

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

Automatic Translation of Hate Speech to Non-hate Speech in Social Media Texts.

Yevhen Kostiuk, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Grigori Sidorov, Olga Kolesnikova

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

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

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, Rooweither Mabuya, Salomey Osei, Chris Emezue, Albert Njoroge Kahira, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Akintunde Oladipo, Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Akari Asai, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Clemencia Siro, Steven Arthur, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Orevaoghene Ahia, Aremu Anuoluwapo, Oyinkansola Awosan, Chiamaka Chukwuneke, Bernard Opoku, Awokoya Ayodele, Verrah Otiende, Christine Mwase, Boyd Sinkala, Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Daniel A. Ajisafe, Emeka Felix Onwuegbuzia, Habib Mbow, Emile Niyomutabazi, Eunice Mukonde, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Martin Namukombo, Chinedu Emmanuel Mbonu, Mofya Phiri, Neo Putini, Ndumiso Mngoma, Priscilla A. Amuok, Ruqayya Nasir Iro, Sonia Adhiambo

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, Handel Emezue, Ifeoluwatayo A. Ige, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Chiamaka Chukwuneke, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Naome A. Etori, Chinedu Emmanuel Mbonu, Oreen Yousuf, Kaosarat Aina, Davis David

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, 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

CoRR, 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, Tosin P. Adewumi

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

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

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

Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 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

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, Rooweither Mabuya, Salomey Osei, Chris Emezue, Albert Kahira, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Akintunde Oladipo, Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Akari Asai, Aremu Anuoluwapo, Ayodele Awokoya, Bernard Opoku, Chiamaka Chukwuneke, Christine Mwase, Clemencia Siro, Stephen Arthur, Tunde Ajayi, Verrah Otiende, Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Boyd Sinkala, Daniel A. Ajisafe, Emeka Onwuegbuzia, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Chinedu E. Mbonu, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Mofya Phiri, Orevaoghene Ahia, Ruqayya Nasir Iro, Sonia Adhiambo

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023

The Less the Merrier? Investigating Language Representation in Multilingual Models.

Hellina Nigatu, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Jugal Kalita

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 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, Tosin P. Adewumi

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

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

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

Detection of Aggressive and Violent Incidents from Social Media in Spanish using Pre-trained Language Model.

Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Muhammad Arif, Olga Kolesnikova, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Grigori Sidorov

Proceedings of the Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum (IberLEF 2022) co-located with the Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2022), 2022

Improving Neural Machine Translation for Low Resource Languages Using Mixed Training: The Case of Ethiopian Languages.

Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Olga Kolesnikova, Muhammad Arif, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Grigori Sidorov

Proceedings of the Advances in Computational Intelligence, 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

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa, 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

Proceedings of The Seventh Workshop on Social Media Mining for Health Applications, 2022

CIC at CheckThat!-2022: Multi-class and Cross-lingual Fake News Detection.

Muhammad Arif, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Iqra Ameer, Olga Kolesnikova, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Grigori Sidorov, Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque

Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2022 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Bologna, Italy, September 5th - to, 2022

2021

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation for Low Resourced Languages: Ometo-English.

Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Michael Melese Woldeyohannis, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa, 2021

A Parallel Corpora for bi-directional Neural Machine Translation for Low Resourced Ethiopian Languages.

Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Michael Melese Woldeyohannis, Mesay Gemeda Yigezu

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa, 2021

Early Ginger Disease Detection Using Deep Learning Approach.

Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Michael Melese Woldeyohannis, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja

Proceedings of the Advances of Science and Technology - 9th EAI International Conference, 2021