Hellina Hailu Nigatu

Hellina Hailu Nigatu

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

Publications

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Exploitation All the Way Down: Calling out the Root Cause of Bad Online Experiences for Users of the Majority World.

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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The Zenos Paradox of Low-Resource Languages.

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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A Capabilities Approach to Studying Bias and Harm in Language Technologies

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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‘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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