Tadesse Destaw Belay

PhD student, Natural Language Processing, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Investigación en Computación

Joined

May 2023

Names

Tadesse Destaw Belay (Preferred)

Emails

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Career & Education History

PhD student

Natural Language Processing, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Investigación en Computación (cic.ipn.mx)

2023 – 2026

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

Language model evaluations

low resource languages

Machine translation

2020 – 2025

Publications

The Rise of AfricaNLP: Contributions, Contributors, and Community Impact (2005–2025)
Tadesse Destaw Belay, Kedir Yassin Hussen, Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Isa Inuwa-Dutse, Aabr, Grigori Sidorov, Iqra Ameer, Idris Abdulmumin, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Vukosi Marivate, Seid Muhie Yimam, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad
- AfricaNLP 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Trust but Check: LLM-Assisted Review of Human Translations in African Languages
Tadesse Destaw Belay, Henok Biadglign Ademtew, Idris Abdulmumin, Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Abubakar Juma Chilala, Godfred Agyapong, CHINEDU EMMANUEL MBONU, Basil Friday Ovu, Catherine Nana Nyaah Essuman, Alfred Malengo Kondoro, Sonia Adhiambo, Daud Abolade, Ponts'o Mpholle, Nicholaus Dismas Ladislaus, Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Gali Ahmad Samuel, Fabrice Hakuzimana, Mike Nzirainengwe, Temitayo Olatoye, Sileshi Bogale Haile et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- AfricaNLP 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Full Fine-Tuning vs. Parameter-Efficient Adaptation for Low-Resource African ASR: A Controlled Study with Whisper-Small
Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Muhammad Yahuza Bello, Hadiza Ali Umar, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Idris Abdulmumin, Seid Muhie Yimam, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad
- AfricaNLP 2026
- Readers: Everyone
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 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Whispering in Amharic: Fine-tuning Whisper for Low-resource Language
Dawit Ketema Gete, Bedru Yimam Ahmed, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Yohannes Ayana Ejigu, Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Alemu Belay Tessema, Mohammed Oumer Adem, Tadesse Amare Belay, Robert Geislinger, Umma Aliyu Musa, Martin Semmann, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Henning Schreiber, Seid Muhie Yimam
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
CULEMO: Cultural Lenses on Emotion - Benchmarking LLMs for Cross-Cultural Emotion Understanding
Tadesse Destaw Belay, Ahmed Haj Ahmed, Alvin Grissom II, Iqra Ameer, Grigori Sidorov, Olga Kolesnikova, Seid Muhie Yimam
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Enhancing Multi-Label Emotion Analysis and Corresponding Intensities for Ethiopian Languages
Tadesse Destaw Belay, Dawit Ketema Gete, Abinew Ali Ayele, Olga Kolesnikova, Grigori Sidorov, Seid Muhie Yimam
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Exploring Cultural Nuances in Emotion Perception Across 15 African Languages
Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Shiran Dudy, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Idris Abdulmumin, Seid Muhie Yimam, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Kenneth Church
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin, Seid Muhie Yimam, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas, Meriem Beloucif, Christine de Kock, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Nirmal Surange, Daniela Teodorescu, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Alham Fikri Aji, Felermino Ali, Vladimir Araujo, Abinew Ali Ayele, Oana Ignat, Alexander Panchenko, Yi Zhou et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone

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