--- title: "Dren Fazlija · L3S Research Center — author profile and papers" description: "Dren Fazlija, L3S Research Center: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dren-fazlija/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dren-fazlija/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Dren Fazlija # Dren Fazlija Dren Fazlija has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/), [Tokenization & segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hailay-kidu-teklehaymanot/), [Wolfgang Nejdl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wolfgang-nejdl/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5040539907) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9133-3526) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5040539907) · [17 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5040539907) · [11 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5040539907&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dren-fazlija/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 6 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dren-fazlija/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5949](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/60/#star-5949) 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=Dren+Fazlija) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Dren+Fazlija) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Dren+Fazlija) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Dren+Fazlija) ## Affiliations [🔬**L3S Research Center** Hanover · Germany 2023–2026 · 12 papers*current*](https://ror.org/039t4wk02) · [🎓**Leibniz University Hannover** Hanover · Germany 2023–2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/leibniz-university-hannover/) 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Morphology · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Tokenization & segmentation · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) · [Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Low-resource languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper Dren Fazlija's papers of 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/teklehaymanot-2026-lgse-lexically-grounded-subword-embedding/) · [**2025** 2 papers Dren Fazlija's papers of 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dren-fazlija/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MoVoC: Morphology-Aware Subword Construction for Ge'ez Script Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/teklehaymanot-2025-movoc-morphology-aware-subword-construction/)** *(2025 · 4 citations)* The paper argues that BPE subwords cut Ge'ez-script languages (Amharic, Tigrinya, Ge'ez, Tigre) at the wrong places, splitting stems and affixes. 2. **[MoVoC: Morphology-Aware Subword Construction for Geez Script Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/teklehaymanot-2025-movoc-morphology-aware-subword-construction-geez/)** *(2025 · 4 citations)* Frequency-driven subword tokenizers such as BPE often cut words in Ge'ez-script languages across morpheme boundaries. 3. **[LGSE: Lexically Grounded Subword Embedding Initialization for Low-Resource Language Adaptation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/teklehaymanot-2026-lgse-lexically-grounded-subword-embedding/)** *(2026)* Multilingual pretrained models such as XLM-R represent low-resource, morphologically rich languages poorly. ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[TIGQA: An Expert-Annotated Question-Answering Dataset in Tigrinya ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1404/) Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yet**Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot et al.*2024 · 5 citations* 2. [**MoVoC: Morphology-Aware Subword Construction for Ge'ez Script Languages**Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot, Dren Fazlija, Wolfgang Nejdl*Semitic languages · 4 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/teklehaymanot-2025-movoc-morphology-aware-subword-construction/) 3. [**MoVoC: Morphology-Aware Subword Construction for Geez Script Languages arXiv:2509.08812**Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot, Dren Fazlija, Wolfgang Nejdl*2025 · 4 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/teklehaymanot-2025-movoc-morphology-aware-subword-construction-geez/) 4. **[LGSE: Lexically Grounded Subword Embedding Initialization for Low-Resource Language Adaptation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/teklehaymanot-2026-lgse-lexically-grounded-subword-embedding/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot, Dren Fazlija, Wolfgang Nejdl*2026* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hailay-kidu-teklehaymanot/) ×3 - [Wolfgang Nejdl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wolfgang-nejdl/) ×3 ## 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 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2025/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2026/) - Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 6 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [3 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dren-fazlija/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026