--- title: "Negasi Haile Abadi — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Negasi Haile Abadi: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/negasi-haile-abadi/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/negasi-haile-abadi/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Negasi Haile Abadi # Negasi Haile Abadi Negasi Haile Abadi has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Atnafu Lambebo Tonja](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atnafu-lambebo-tonja/), [Debela Desalegn Yadeta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/debela-desalegn-yadeta/), [Hellina Hailu Nigatu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hellina-hailu-nigatu/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5019910195) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4294-9578) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5019910195) · [9 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5019910195) · [1 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5019910195&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/negasi-haile-abadi/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1 time in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/negasi-haile-abadi/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11229](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/113/#star-11229) 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=Negasi+Haile+Abadi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Negasi+Haile+Abadi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Negasi+Haile+Abadi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Negasi+Haile+Abadi) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Groningen** Groningen · Netherlands 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-groningen/) 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 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[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/) · [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/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/negasi-haile-abadi/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/negasi-haile-abadi/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Case Against Implicit Standards: Homophone Normalization in Machine Translation for Languages that use the Ge'ez Script.](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nigatu-2025-case-against-implicit-standards-homophone/)** *(2025 · 2 citations)* Amharic NLP work often applies homophone normalization as a routine cleanup step. This step collapses Ge'ez-script characters that sound alike in Amharic into one character, which raises exact-match metrics such as BLEU. The authors argue that this habit quietly sets a standard for every language written in the… 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/)** *(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… ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Atnafu Lambebo Tonja](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atnafu-lambebo-tonja/) ×2 - [Debela Desalegn Yadeta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/debela-desalegn-yadeta/) - [Hellina Hailu Nigatu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hellina-hailu-nigatu/) - [Henok Biadglign Ademtew](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/henok-biadglign-ademtew/) - [Hizkiel Mitiku Alemayehu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hizkiel-mitiku-alemayehu/) - [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/) - [Seid Muhie Yimam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seid-muhie-yimam/) - [Srija Anand](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srija-anand/) - [Tadesse Destaw Belay](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tadesse-destaw-belay/) ## 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/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1 time (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/negasi-haile-abadi/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026