--- title: "Kidist Amde Mekonnen — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Kidist Amde Mekonnen, University of Amsterdam: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kidist-amde-mekonnen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kidist-amde-mekonnen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kidist Amde Mekonnen # Kidist Amde Mekonnen Kidist Amde Mekonnen has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Maarten de Rijke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-de-rijke/), [Yosef Worku Alemneh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yosef-worku-alemneh/), [Mohammad Aliannejadi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-aliannejadi/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5106343200) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1702-9514) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5106343200) · [16 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5106343200) · [18 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5106343200&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kidist-amde-mekonnen/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 3 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kidist-amde-mekonnen/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10495](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/105/#star-10495) 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=Kidist+Amde+Mekonnen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kidist+Amde+Mekonnen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kidist+Amde+Mekonnen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kidist+Amde+Mekonnen) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Amsterdam** Amsterdam · Netherlands 2023–2027 · 4 papersEducation 2023–2027 · PhD, Informatics InstituteEmployment 2023–2027*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) 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 · 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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Information Systems · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [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.[Information retrieval & search · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kidist-amde-mekonnen/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kidist-amde-mekonnen/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Optimized Text Embedding Models and Benchmarks for Amharic Passage Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mekonnen-2025-optimized-text-embedding-models-benchmarks/)** *(2025 · 4 citations)* Amharic is a low-resource Semitic language with root-and-pattern morphology and the Ge'ez abugida script. Neither lexical matching nor large multilingual embedders handle it well, and the authors trace much of the trouble to poor subword segmentation. They fine-tune existing Amharic BERT and RoBERTa checkpoints… 2. **[uva-irlab-conv at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Multi-Turn RAG with Learned Sparse Retrieval and Listwise Reranking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lupart-2026-uva-irlab-conv-semeval-2026/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* This paper describes the University of Amsterdam team's system for SemEval-2026 Task 8, which is built on the MTRAGEval benchmark. 3. **[The Multilingual Curse at the Retrieval Layer: Evidence from Amharic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alemneh-2026-multilingual-curse-retrieval-layer-evidence/)** *(2026)* The paper asks whether multilingual retrievers that score well zero-shot actually transfer to an underrepresented, morphologically rich language. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Maarten de Rijke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-de-rijke/) ×2 - [Yosef Worku Alemneh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yosef-worku-alemneh/) ×2 - [Mohammad Aliannejadi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-aliannejadi/) - [Simon Lupart](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-lupart/) ## 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/) - [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/): [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/2026/) - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/): [SemEval 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [3 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kidist-amde-mekonnen/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026