--- title: "Bontu Fufa Balcha — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Bontu Fufa Balcha, Addis Ababa University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bontu-fufa-balcha/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bontu-fufa-balcha/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Bontu Fufa Balcha # Bontu Fufa Balcha Bontu Fufa Balcha has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/); often with [Atnafu Lambebo Tonja](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atnafu-lambebo-tonja/), [Chenxi Whitehouse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenxi-whitehouse/), [Chenyang Lyu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenyang-lyu/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5099096832) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5099096832) · [9 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5099096832) · [5 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5099096832&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bontu-fufa-balcha/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 87 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bontu-fufa-balcha/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8105](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/82/#star-8105) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Bontu+Fufa+Balcha) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Bontu+Fufa+Balcha) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Bontu+Fufa+Balcha) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Bontu+Fufa+Balcha) ## Affiliations [🎓**Addis Ababa University** Addis Ababa · Ethiopia 2023–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/addis-ababa-university/) · [🎓**Saarland University** Saarbrücken · Germany 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/saarland-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 6 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bontu-fufa-balcha/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bontu-fufa-balcha/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/romero-2024-cvqa-culturally-diverse-multilingual-visual/)** *(2024 · 90 citations)* Most VQA benchmarks are English-only or cover a few major languages. Multilingual ones often translate questions while reusing Western-centric images, so they say little about whether vision-language models understand non-Western cultures. CVQA addresses this with a benchmark built through cross-community… 2. **[Evaluating Machine Translation Datasets for Low-Web Data Languages: A Gendered Lens](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nigatu-2026-evaluating-machine-translation-datasets-low/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Most work on low-resourced languages tries to gather ever-larger corpora, but few studies check what those corpora actually contain. ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Atnafu Lambebo Tonja](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atnafu-lambebo-tonja/) - [Chenxi Whitehouse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenxi-whitehouse/) - [Chenyang Lyu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenyang-lyu/) - [Hellina Hailu Nigatu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hellina-hailu-nigatu/) - [Injy Hamed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/injy-hamed/) - [Teresa Lynn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/teresa-lynn/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 87 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [28 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bontu-fufa-balcha/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026