--- title: "Dagnachew Mekonnen Marilign — author profile and papers" description: "Dagnachew Mekonnen Marilign: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dagnachew-mekonnen-marilign/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dagnachew-mekonnen-marilign/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Dagnachew Mekonnen Marilign # Dagnachew Mekonnen Marilign Dagnachew Mekonnen Marilign has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/); often with [Dietrich Klakow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dietrich-klakow/), [Israel Abebe Azime](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/israel-abebe-azime/), [Philipp Slusallek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philipp-slusallek/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5120308310) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5120308310) · [3 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5120308310) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5120308310&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dagnachew-mekonnen-marilign/#papers) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13492](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/135/#star-13492) 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=Dagnachew+Mekonnen+Marilign) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Dagnachew+Mekonnen+Marilign) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Dagnachew+Mekonnen+Marilign) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Dagnachew+Mekonnen+Marilign) ## 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).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [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 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dagnachew-mekonnen-marilign/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dagnachew-mekonnen-marilign/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AmharicStoryQA: A Multicultural Story Question Answering Benchmark in Amharic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/azime-2026-amharicstoryqa-multicultural-story-question-answering/)** *(2026)* Multilingual benchmarks usually equate one language with one culture. This paper argues that cultural differences inside a single language community also shape how well LLMs understand text. The authors built AmharicStoryQA from parallel Amharic–English folktales drawn from nine Ethiopian regions, with SNNP further… 2. **[Amharic News Topic Classification: Dataset and Transformer-Based Model Benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marilign-2025-amharic-news-topic-classification-dataset/)** *(2025)* Amharic is widely used but has few large labeled datasets for news topic classification. This paper addresses that gap with a bigger corpus and a set of baseline models. The authors scraped 12 Amharic news outlets with BeautifulSoup and kept each outlet's own editorial category as the label. They merged 92,792 new… ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dietrich Klakow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dietrich-klakow/) - [Israel Abebe Azime](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/israel-abebe-azime/) - [Philipp Slusallek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philipp-slusallek/) - [Seid Muhie Yimam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seid-muhie-yimam/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Widening NLP Workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/winlp/): [Widening NLP Workshop 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/winlp/2025/) Updated 2 November 2026