Seid Muhie Yimam

42 papers · 2013–2026 · 9 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐝 Cross-Pollinator (13) 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (61) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (9) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (9) 🏃 Academic Marathon (12) 🤝 Dynamic Duo (21) 👥 Mega-Team (27) 🔬 Deep Specialist (14) 💎 Century Club (41) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (137) ⚡ Prolific Year (8) 🔥 Unstoppable (6)

Conferences

ACL (9) COLING (8) EMNLP (7) NAACL (6) SEMEVAL (5) EACL (4) AAAI (1) IJCNLP (1) NIPS (1)

Top co-authors

Chris Biemann (21) Abinew Ali Ayele (14) Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad (12) Tadesse Destaw Belay (11) Idris Abdulmumin (11) Nedjma Ousidhoum (9) Ibrahim Said Ahmad (9) Meriem Beloucif (8) David Ifeoluwa Adelani (7) Israel Abebe Azime (5)

Research topics

Linguistics (1) Education (1)

Keywords

low-resource language (13) multilingual nlp (10) text classification (9) sentiment analysis (7) hate speech detection (6) large language model (5) african language (5) transfer learning (3) benchmark evaluation (3) natural language processing (3) cross-lingual transfer (3) semantic similarity (3) domain adaptation (3) offensive language detection (3) multi-label classification (3) machine translation (2) text simplification (2) zero-shot learning (2) cross-lingual nlp (2) emotion detection (2)

Papers

Full Fine-Tuning vs. Parameter-Efficient Adaptation for Low-Resource African ASR: A Controlled Study with Whisper-Small EACL 2026

SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection SEMEVAL 2025

AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages NAACL 2025

AfroXLMR-Social: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for African Languages Social Media Text EMNLP 2025

A Case Against Implicit Standards: Homophone Normalization in Machine Translation for Languages that use the Ge’ez Script. EMNLP 2025

CULEMO: Cultural Lenses on Emotion - Benchmarking LLMs for Cross-Cultural Emotion Understanding ACL 2025

LECTURE4ALL: A Lightweight Approach to Precise Timestamp Detection in Online Lecture Videos ACL 2025

HatePRISM: Policies, Platforms, and Research Integration. Advancing NLP for Hate Speech Proactive Mitigation ACL 2025

Automatic Speech Recognition for African Low-Resource Languages: Challenges and Future Directions ACL 2025

SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection ACL 2025

Evaluating the Capabilities of Large Language Models for Multi-label Emotion Understanding COLING 2025

Multilingual and Explainable Text Detoxification with Parallel Corpora COLING 2025

BLEnD: A Benchmark for LLMs on Everyday Knowledge in Diverse Cultures and Languages NIPS 2024

EthioLLM: Multilingual Large Language Models for Ethiopian Languages with Task Evaluation COLING 2024

Detecting Hate Speech in Amharic Using Multimodal Analysis of Social Media Memes COLING 2024

Exploring Boundaries and Intensities in Offensive and Hate Speech: Unveiling the Complex Spectrum of Social Media Discourse COLING 2024

Walia-LLM: Enhancing Amharic-LLaMA by Integrating Task-Specific and Generative Datasets EMNLP 2024

UHH at AVeriTeC: RAG for Fact-Checking with Real-World Claims EMNLP 2024

SemEval Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness for African and Asian Languages NAACL 2024

SemEval Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness for African and Asian Languages SEMEVAL 2024

SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval) SEMEVAL 2023

Natural Language Processing in Ethiopian Languages: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities EACL 2023

CodeAnno: Extending WebAnno with Hierarchical Document Level Annotation and Automation EACL 2023

SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval) ACL 2023

AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages EMNLP 2023

SCoT: Sense Clustering over Time: a tool for the analysis of lexical change EACL 2021

HateXplain: A Benchmark Dataset for Explainable Hate Speech Detection AAAI 2021

Word Complexity is in the Eye of the Beholder NAACL 2021

ActiveAnno: General-Purpose Document-Level Annotation Tool with Active Learning Integration NAACL 2021

UHH-LT at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Fine-Tuning of Pre-Trained Transformer Networks for Offensive Language Detection SEMEVAL 2020

Exploring Amharic Sentiment Analysis from Social Media Texts: Building Annotation Tools and Classification Models COLING 2020

UHH-LT at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Fine-Tuning of Pre-Trained Transformer Networks for Offensive Language Detection COLING 2020

Demonstrating Par4Sem - A Semantic Writing Aid with Adaptive Paraphrasing EMNLP 2018

Par4Sim – Adaptive Paraphrasing for Text Simplification COLING 2018

A Multilingual Information Extraction Pipeline for Investigative Journalism EMNLP 2018

A Report on the Complex Word Identification Shared Task 2018 NAACL 2018

CWIG3G2 - Complex Word Identification Task across Three Text Genres and Two User Groups IJCNLP 2017

IIT-UHH at SemEval-2017 Task 3: Exploring Multiple Features for Community Question Answering and Implicit Dialogue Identification SEMEVAL 2017

new/s/leak – Information Extraction and Visualization for Investigative Data Journalists ACL 2016

Narrowing the Loop: Integration of Resources and Linguistic Dataset Development with Interactive Machine Learning NAACL 2015

Automatic Annotation Suggestions and Custom Annotation Layers in WebAnno ACL 2014

WebAnno: A Flexible, Web-based and Visually Supported System for Distributed Annotations ACL 2013