I will be using my FAccT DEI Scholar fund to implement a 1-year research project with 2 MSc and 2 BSc women students from Addis Ababa Institute of Technology. The project will center on building gender-aware and community-centered MT tools for Ethiopian languages.
I used my SIGHPC Computational and Data Science Fellowship to build a Library in memory of my late Grandmother; read more about it here.
Published in 3rd Workshop on African Natural Language Processing, 2022
This paper is about the number 1. The number 2 is left for future work.
Recommended citation: Chris Chinenye Emezue, Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Cynthia Thinwa, Lerato Louis, Idris Abdulmumin, Samuel Gbenga Oyerinde, Benjamin Ayoade Ajibade, Helper Zhou, Emeka Felix Onwuegbuzia, Handel Chiagozie Emezue, Ifeoluwatayo Adeseye Ige, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Olanrewaju Samuel. (2022). "The African Stopwords Project: Curating Stopwords for African Languages." 3rd Workshop on African Natural Language Processing.
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Published in Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGMOD Joint International Workshop on Graph Data Management Experiences & Systems (GRADES) and Network Data Analytics (NDA)., 2022
Recommended citation: Andrew McCrabb, **Hellina Nigatu**, Absalat Getachew, Valeria Bertacco. (2022). "DyGraph: a dynamic graph generator and benchmark suite." Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGMOD Joint International Workshop on Graph Data Management Experiences & Systems (GRADES) and Network Data Analytics (NDA).
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Published in Proceedings of 4th ACM African Human-Computer Interaction Conference (AfriCHI 2023), 2023
Recommended citation: Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Lisa Pickoff-White, John Canny, Sarah Chasins. (2023). "Co-Designing for Transparency: Lessons from Building a Document Organization Tool for the Criminal Justice Domain." Proceedings of ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT).
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Published in AmericasNLP 2023 Shared Task on Machine Translation into Indigenous Languages., 2023
Recommended citation: Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Olga Kolesnikova, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander Gelbukh, Jugal Kalita. (2023). "Enhancing Translation for Indigenous Languages: Experiments with Multilingual Models." AmericasNLP 2023 Shared Task on Machine Translation into Indigenous Languages.
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Published in Proceedings of 4th ACM African Human-Computer Interaction Conference (AfriCHI 2023), 2023
Recommended citation: Hellina Hailu Nigatu, John Canny, Sarah Chasins. (2023). "A Need Finding Study with Low-Resourced Language Content Creators." Proceedings of 4th ACM African Human-Computer Interaction Conference (AfriCHI 2023)
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Published in Proceedings of Empirical Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2023 Findings., 2023
Co-first Author with Atnafu Lambebo Tonja.
Recommended citation: Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Jugal Kalita. (2023). "The Less the Merrier? Investigating Language Representation in Multilingual Models." Proceedings of Empirical Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2023 Findings.
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Published in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI). , 2024
Recommended citation: Hellina Hailu Nigatu, John Canny, Sarah Chasins. (2024). "Low-Resourced Languages and Online Knowledge Repositories: A Need-Finding Study" Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI).
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Published in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT). , 2024
Recommended citation: Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Inioluwa Deborah Raji. (2024). ""I Searched for a Religious Song in Amharic and Got Sexual Content Instead": Investigating Online Harm in Low-Resourced Languages on YouTube." Proceedings of ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT).
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Published in Workshop on New Perspectives on Bias and Discrimination in Language Technology, 2024
Recommended citation: Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Zeerak Talat. (2024) A Capabilities Approach to Studying Bias and Harm in Language Technologies. Extended Abstract accepted to Workshop on New Perspectives on Bias and Discrimination in Language Technology. Nov 04, 2024. Amsterdam.
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Published in Proceedings of The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024), 2024
Recommended citation: Hellina Nigatu, Atnafu Tonja, Benjamin Rosman, Thamar Solorio, Monojit Choudhury. 2024. The Zenos Paradox of Low-Resource Languages. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Published in The 19th annual Meeting of Internet Governance Forum., 2024
Recommended citation: Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Zeerak Talat. (2024). Exploitation All the Way Down: Calling out the Root Cause of Bad Online Experiences for Users of the Majority World. Data and AI Governance Coalition (DAIG) at the 19th Annual Meeting of Internet Governance Forum. Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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A demonstration workshop for investigative journalists on using document organizing tool I am building.
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Invited talk at Stanford for Watchdog Reporting Class on using a document organization tool I built to organize police misconduct data.
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Invited talk for Learning Session at WhoseKnowledge?.
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Invited Speaker for Datathon4Jusitce 2023.
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Invited Anchor Speaker for Ingram Olkin Forum on Police Use of Force.
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Will be giving a Spotlight talk at the Black In AI Workshop co-located with NeurIPS (Upcoming).
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Invited Speaker for IoTDayWomen2024. [video]
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Presented my CHI’24 paper on challenges with Wikipedia in low-resourced languages at the NorthEast HCI Meeting at CMU. Video Paper
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Invited Speaker for Coher For AI Speaker series. Read more about it here and watch the [video].
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Gave a talk at the CARE Speaker Series in NYU Abu Dhabi. Hosted by Prof. Tuka Alhanai
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Was an invited panelist at the Decolonizing Tech Panel held at Tapia 2024.
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Gave a virtual talk at the IS PhD Seminar.
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Gave an invited virtual talk for the November Wikimedia Research Showcase [video].
Bootcamp, UC Berkeley, School of Information, 2022
Undergraduate course, UC Berkeley, 2022
Gave a guest Lecture for Beauty and Joy of Computing class at Berkeley.
Summer Program, Menen School, 2023
Volunteered as a TA for the AddisCoder 2023 summer program in Addis Ababa, teaching highschool students from across the country python fundamentals and algorithms.
Undergraduate and Graduate course, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, ECES, 2023
Designed and taught a course at AAiT for BSc and MSc students. Click the title to see the syllabus.
, UC Berkeley and Kaplan University Partners, 2023
Gave a guest Lecture for an online intro to CS course for high school students.
Workshop, UC Berkeley, D-Lab, 2024
Senoir Fellow for the DSSJ 2024 summer program where I co-teach and co-mentor students on fundamenatals of langauge processing and readings related to Fairness Accountability and Transparency.