Atnafu Lambebo Tonja

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2021-2024
Publications (10 Years): 42

Top Topics

Machine Translation

Parallel Corpora

Top Venues

EMNLP (Findings)

Publications

Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt, Olga Kolesnikova, Hector G. Ceballos, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Thamar Solorio
NLP Progress in Indigenous Latin American Languages. NAACL-HLT (2024)
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
EthioLLM: Multilingual Large Language Models for Ethiopian Languages with Task Evaluation. CoRR (2024)
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Olga Kolesnikova, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Jugal Kalita
EthioMT: Parallel Corpus for Low-resource Ethiopian Languages. CoRR (2024)
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
CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark. CoRR (2024)
Israel Abebe Azime, Mitiku Yohannes Fuge, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Aman Kassahun Wassie, Eyasu Shiferaw Jada, Yonas Chanie, Walelign Tewabe Sewunetie, Seid Muhie Yimam
Enhancing Amharic-LLaMA: Integrating Task Specific and Generative Datasets. CoRR (2024)
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt, Olga Kolesnikova, Hector G. Ceballos, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Thamar Solorio
NLP Progress in Indigenous Latin American Languages. CoRR (2024)
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
EthioLLM: Multilingual Large Language Models for Ethiopian Languages with Task Evaluation. LREC/COLING (2024)
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
AfriSpeech-200: Pan-African Accented Speech Dataset for Clinical and General Domain ASR. Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics 11 (2023)
Yevhen Kostiuk, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Grigori Sidorov, Olga Kolesnikova
Automatic Translation of Hate Speech to Non-hate Speech in Social Media Texts. CoRR (2023)
Tobi Olatunji, Tejumade Afonja, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Amina Mardiyyah Rufai, Sahib Singh
AfriNames: Most ASR Models "Butcher" African Names. INTERSPEECH (2023)
Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Jugal Kalita
The Less the Merrier? Investigating Language Representation in Multilingual Models. CoRR (2023)
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Olga Kolesnikova, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Jugal Kalita
Enhancing Translation for Indigenous Languages: Experiments with Multilingual Models. CoRR (2023)
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Israel Abebe Azime, Abinew Ali Ayele, Moges Ahmed Mehamed, Olga Kolesnikova, Seid Muhie Yimam
Natural Language Processing in Ethiopian Languages: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities. CoRR (2023)
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
MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages. CoRR (2023)
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
MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages. AfricaNLP (2023)
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
Masakhane-Afrisenti at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis using Afro-centric Language Models and Adapters for Low-resource African Languages. SemEval@ACL (2023)
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Melkamu Mersha, Ananya Kalita, Olga Kolesnikova, Jugal Kalita
First Attempt at Building Parallel Corpora for Machine Translation of Northeast India's Very Low-Resource Languages. CoRR (2023)
Tobi Olatunji, Tejumade Afonja, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Amina Mardiyyah Rufai, Sahib Singh
AfriNames: Most ASR models "butcher" African Names. CoRR (2023)
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
AfriSpeech-200: Pan-African Accented Speech Dataset for Clinical and General Domain ASR. CoRR (2023)
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Christian Efraín Maldonado Sifuentes, David Alejandro Mendoza Castillo, Olga Kolesnikova, Noé Alejandro Castro-Sánchez, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander F. Gelbukh
Parallel Corpus for Indigenous Language Translation: Spanish-Mazatec and Spanish-Mixtec. CoRR (2023)
Hellina Nigatu, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Jugal Kalita
The Less the Merrier? Investigating Language Representation in Multilingual Models. EMNLP (Findings) (2023)
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
Masakhane-Afrisenti at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis using Afro-centric Language Models and Adapters for Low-resource African Languages. CoRR (2023)
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
MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages. IJCNLP (1) (2023)
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 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
Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages. EMNLP (Findings) (2023)
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Israel Abebe Azime, Abinew Ali Ayele, Moges Ahmed Mehamed, Olga Kolesnikova, Seid Muhie Yimam
Natural Language Processing in Ethiopian Languages: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities. RAIL (2023)
Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Tobi Olatunji, Naome A. Etori, Salomey Osei, Tosin P. Adewumi, Sahib Singh
Adapting Pretrained ASR Models to Low-resource Clinical Speech using Epistemic Uncertainty-based Data Selection. CoRR (2023)
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
Adapting to the Low-Resource Double-Bind: Investigating Low-Compute Methods on Low-Resource African Languages. AfricaNLP (2023)
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, Mbonu Chinedu Emmanuel, Mofya Phiri, Neo Putini, Ndumiso Mngoma, Priscilla A. Amuok, Ruqayya Nasir Iro, Sonia Adhiambo
AfriQA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages. CoRR (2023)
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
Adapting to the Low-Resource Double-Bind: Investigating Low-Compute Methods on Low-Resource African Languages. CoRR (2023)
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, Mbonu Chinedu Emmanuel, Oreen Yousuf, Kaosarat Aina, Davis David
The African Stopwords project: curating stopwords for African languages. CoRR (2023)
Tobi Olatunji, Tejumade Afonja, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Amina Mardiyyah Rufai, Sahib Singh
AfriNames: Most ASR models "butcher" African Names. AfricaNLP (2023)
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Olumide Ebenezer Ojo, Mohammed Arif Khan, Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque, Olga Kolesnikova, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander F. Gelbukh
CIC NLP at SMM4H 2022: a BERT-based approach for classification of social media forum posts. SMM4H@COLING (2022)
Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Oreen Yousuf, Salomey Osei, Abigail Oppong, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Oluwabusayo Olufunke Awoyomi, Chris Chinenye Emezue
AfroLM: A Self-Active Learning-based Multilingual Pretrained Language Model for 23 African Languages. CoRR (2022)
Tadesse Destaw Belay, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Olga Kolesnikova, Seid Muhie Yimam, Abinew Ali Ayele, Silesh Bogale Haile, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander F. Gelbukh
The Effect of Normalization for Bi-directional Amharic-English Neural Machine Translation. CoRR (2022)
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Muhammad Arif, Olga Kolesnikova, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Grigori Sidorov
Detection of Aggressive and Violent Incidents from Social Media in Spanish using Pre-trained Language Model. IberLEF@SEPLN (2022)
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Olga Kolesnikova, Moein Shahiki Tash, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander F. Gelbukh
Transformer-based Model for Word Level Language Identification in Code-mixed Kannada-English Texts. CoRR (2022)
Muhammad Arif, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Iqra Ameer, Olga Kolesnikova, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Grigori Sidorov, Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque
CIC at CheckThat!-2022: Multi-class and Cross-lingual Fake News Detection. CLEF (Working Notes) (2022)
Tadesse Destaw Belay, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Olga Kolesnikova, Seid Muhie Yimam, Abinew Ali Ayele, Silesh Bogale Haile, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander F. Gelbukh
The Effect of Normalization for Bi-directional Amharic-English Neural Machine Translation. ICT4DA (2022)
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Olga Kolesnikova, Muhammad Arif, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Grigori Sidorov
Improving Neural Machine Translation for Low Resource Languages Using Mixed Training: The Case of Ethiopian Languages. MICAI (2) (2022)
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Michael Melese Woldeyohannis, Mesay Gemeda Yigezu
A Parallel Corpora for bi-directional Neural Machine Translation for Low Resourced Ethiopian Languages. ICT4DA (2021)
Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Michael Melese Woldeyohannis, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja
Multilingual Neural Machine Translation for Low Resourced Languages: Ometo-English. ICT4DA (2021)
Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Michael Melese Woldeyohannis, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja
Early Ginger Disease Detection Using Deep Learning Approach. ICAST (1) (2021)