--- title: "Seid Muhie Yimam — author profile and papers" description: "Seid Muhie Yimam, Universität Hamburg: 6 papers on Elamur Research (2013–2026), h-index 17 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seid-muhie-yimam/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seid-muhie-yimam/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Seid Muhie Yimam # Seid Muhie Yimam Seid Muhie Yimam has 6 papers in our library, in 2013–2026, most of them on [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Abinew Ali Ayele](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abinew-ali-ayele/), [Chris Biemann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-biemann/), [Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad/). 6 papers in our library · 2013–2026 current affiliation [Universität Hamburg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-hamburg/), Hamburg, Germany; [University of Freiburg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-freiburg/), Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5039544387) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8289-388X) · [**h-index 17**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5039544387) · [97 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039544387) · [1 946 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039544387&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [6 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seid-muhie-yimam/#papers) · [795 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seid-muhie-yimam/cited-by/) · 16 more works in our library · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3142](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/32/#star-3142) 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=Seid+Muhie+Yimam) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Seid+Muhie+Yimam) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Seid+Muhie+Yimam) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Seid+Muhie+Yimam) ## Affiliations - [Universität Hamburg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-hamburg/) · Hamburg, Germany —current · 2017–2026 on 59 papers · employment from 2022: Technical Lead, House of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) (ORCID) - [University of Freiburg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-freiburg/) · Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany —current · 2026 on 1 paper - [Wollo University](https://ror.org/01ktt8y73) · Dessie, Ethiopia —2023–2025 on 2 papers - LT Group · Hamburg, Germany —employment 2020–2022: postdoctoral researcher, Computer Science (ORCID) - [Technische Universität Darmstadt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technische-universitat-darmstadt/) · Darmstadt, Germany —2013–2021 on 10 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Sentiment & emotion 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Semitic languages 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Question answering 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Low-resource languages 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Interpretability 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Bias, fairness & safety 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seid-muhie-yimam/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dementieva-2025-multilingual-explainable-text-detoxification-parallel/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gashe-2024-hate-speech-detection-classification-amharic/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/muhammad-2023-afrisenti-twitter-sentiment-analysis-benchmark/) ### 2010s [**2013** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yimam-2013-webanno-flexible-web-based-visually/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[WebAnno: A Flexible, Web-based and Visually Supported System for Distributed Annotations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yimam-2013-webanno-flexible-web-based-visually/)** *(2013 · 271 citations)* Statistical NLP depends on annotated training data, yet annotation tools have often been built for a single task, tied to proprietary formats, or required local installation. 2. **[AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/muhammad-2023-afrisenti-twitter-sentiment-analysis-benchmark/)** *(2023 · 143 citations)* NLP research on African languages is scarce, largely because labelled data is lacking. This is especially true for sentiment in noisy social-media text, where code-switching, tone and multiple scripts complicate analysis. The authors address this gap with AfriSenti, a Twitter benchmark covering 14 African languages… 3. **[Multilingual and Explainable Text Detoxification with Parallel Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dementieva-2025-multilingual-explainable-text-detoxification-parallel/)** *(2025 · 19 citations)* Online abusive language remains a problem despite regulation. One remedy is text detoxification, which rewrites offensive text into a neutral version while keeping its meaning. The best systems rely on parallel toxic–neutral pairs, but such data existed for only a few mostly European languages. The authors manually… 4. **[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… 5. **[SAINT: Multilingual Span-Level Interpretability for Sentiment Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yimam-2026-saint-multilingual-span-level-interpretability/)** *(2026)* Sentiment classifiers are widely deployed, but their decisions are rarely checked for explainability, especially in under-resourced languages. 6. **[Hate Speech Detection and Classification in Amharic Text with Deep Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gashe-2024-hate-speech-detection-classification-amharic/)** *(2024)* Amharic is Ethiopia's long-standing lingua franca and is increasingly used online, but it has very little tooling for detecting hateful posts. ## Also in our library 16 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 12 of 25 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Abinew Ali Ayele](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abinew-ali-ayele/) ×3 - [Chris Biemann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-biemann/) ×2 - [Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad/) ×2 - [Ashraf Elnagar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashraf-elnagar/) - [Daniil Moskovskiy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniil-moskovskiy/) - [Daryna Dementieva](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daryna-dementieva/) - [David Ifeoluwa Adelani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/) - [Dietrich Klakow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dietrich-klakow/) - [Ibrahim Sa'id Ahmad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ibrahim-sa-id-ahmad/) - [Idris Abdulmumin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/idris-abdulmumin/) - [Iryna Gurevych](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iryna-gurevych/) - [Israel Abebe Azime](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/israel-abebe-azime/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 795 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [39 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seid-muhie-yimam/cited-by/).