Hellina Hailu Nigatu

Hellina Hailu Nigatu

CS PhD Student at UC Berkeley. Working on HCI, NLP and AI Ethics.

Publications

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‘I Searched for a Religious Song in Amharic and Got Sexual Content Instead’: Investigating Online Harm in Low-Resourced Languages on YouTube.

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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A Need Finding Study with Low-Resourced Language Content Creators

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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Enhancing Translation for Indigenous Languages: Experiments with Multilingual Models.

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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Co-Designing for Transparency: Lessons from Building a Document Organization Tool for the Criminal Justice Domain.

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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DyGraph: a dynamic graph generator and benchmark suite.

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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The African Stopwords Project: Curating Stopwords for African Languages

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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