Talks and presentations
2026
Invited Paper Presentation Birds-of-a-Feather Session Open Data Collection Playbook and Annotation for African Languages
2025
Keynote Lessons from African Low-Resource NLP for Humanities Research
Seminar Big Data and AI: Enhancing Prognostic and Diagnostic Capabilities
2024
Seminar Unlocking Potential Through Open Sourcing: Open Code, Open Data, and Open Opportunity
Keynote Talk Analyzing and Mitigating Hate Speech: A Comprehensive Approach Towards Building a Better Community
2023
Invited NLP Seminar talk Challenges of Low-Resource Natural Language Processing: A Focus on Sentiment Analysis and Hate Speech Detection in Amharic
Keynote speech Sentiment and Hate Speech Detection for African Languages : Ethiopia as a Use-case
Seminar Talk Data science seminar on data curation and model interpretation
2022
Keynote Speech AI and Data Science Approaches Adoption for the Innovation of Emerging Economies
GSCL Research Talks Challenges on social NLP Dataset Annotation
2020
Invited Talk Quality Control in Crowdsourcing
Talk Open Thesis Topics in Ethiopian NLP
2018
Talk Par4Sim – Adaptive Paraphrasing for Text Simplification
Talk Par4Sim – Adaptive Paraphrasing for Text Simplification
2017
Talk CWIG3G2 – Complex Word Identification Task across Three Text Genres and Two User Groups
Talk Entity-Centric Information Access with the Human-in-the-Loop for the Biomedical Domains
Talk Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Complex Word Identification