Published in Proceedings of The AfricaNLP Workshop, 2025
Recommended citation: Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Hanan Aldarmaki. (2025). "Exploring Transliteration-Based Zero-Shot Transfer for Amharic ASR." Proceedings of The AfricaNLP Workshop (AfricaNLP) 2025.
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Published in Proceedings of Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) Findings., 2025
Recommended citation: Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Min Li, Maartje Ter Hoeve, Saloni Potdar, Sarah Chasins . (2025). "mRAKL: Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Knowledge Graph Construction for Low-Resourced Languages." Proceedings of Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2025 Findings.
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Published in Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2025
Recommended citation: Elleni Sisay Temesgen, Hellina Hailu Nigatu, and Fitsum Assamnew Andargie. (2025). "Cognate Detection for Historical Language Reconstruction of Proto-Sabean Languages: the Case of Ge’ez, Tigrinya, and Amharic" Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 7415–7422, Abu Dhabi, UAE. 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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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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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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