--- title: "Debela Desalegn Yadeta — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Debela Desalegn Yadeta: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/debela-desalegn-yadeta/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/debela-desalegn-yadeta/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Debela Desalegn Yadeta # Debela Desalegn Yadeta Debela Desalegn Yadeta has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Atnafu Lambebo Tonja](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atnafu-lambebo-tonja/), [Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hailay-kidu-teklehaymanot/), [Idris Abdulmumin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/idris-abdulmumin/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5114653388) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5114653388) · [10 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5114653388) · [5 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5114653388&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/debela-desalegn-yadeta/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 3 times in our library · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13506](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/136/#star-13506) 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=Debela+Desalegn+Yadeta) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Debela+Desalegn+Yadeta) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Debela+Desalegn+Yadeta) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Debela+Desalegn+Yadeta) ## Affiliations [🎓**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).[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.[Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/debela-desalegn-yadeta/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tonja-2026-afri-mcqa-multimodal-cultural-question/)** *(2026)* Afri-MCQA addresses a gap in multimodal AI evaluation. Existing cultural VQA benchmarks cover few African languages and query models only through text, even though many African languages are used mainly in spoken form. The authors built a benchmark of about 7.5k image-grounded question–answer pairs in 15 sub-Saharan… 2. **[Expanding the Lexicon of Ge'ez Based African Languages: A Comparative Study of Amharic and Tigrinya](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/teklehaymanot-2026-expanding-lexicon-ge-ez-based/)** *(2026)* XLM-R's Latin-centred subword vocabulary splits Amharic and Tigrinya words, written in the Ge'ez script, into many pieces: on the authors' held-out text, 2.07 tokens per word for Amharic and 3.13 for Tigrinya. ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[CaMMT: Benchmarking Culturally Aware Multimodal Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-emnlp.1220/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025 · no summary yet**Emilio Villa-Cueva et al.*2025 · 5 citations* 2. **[Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tonja-2026-afri-mcqa-multimodal-cultural-question/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Srija Anand, Emilio Villa-Cueva, et al.*2026* 3. [**Expanding the Lexicon of Ge'ez Based African Languages: A Comparative Study of Amharic and Tigrinya**Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot, Debela Desalegn Yadeta, Wolfgang Nejdl*Semitic languages*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/teklehaymanot-2026-expanding-lexicon-ge-ez-based/) ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Atnafu Lambebo Tonja](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atnafu-lambebo-tonja/) - [Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hailay-kidu-teklehaymanot/) - [Idris Abdulmumin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/idris-abdulmumin/) - [Israel Abebe Azime](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/israel-abebe-azime/) - [Jesujoba Alabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jesujoba-alabi/) - [Naome A Etori](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/naome-a-etori/) - [Negasi Haile Abadi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/negasi-haile-abadi/) - [Srija Anand](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srija-anand/) - [Wolfgang Nejdl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wolfgang-nejdl/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). Updated 1 November 2026