--- title: "Tadesse Destaw Belay — author profile and papers" description: "Tadesse Destaw Belay, Instituto Politécnico Nacional: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tadesse-destaw-belay/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tadesse-destaw-belay/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tadesse Destaw Belay # Tadesse Destaw Belay 4 papers on this site · 2024–2026 current affiliation [Instituto Politécnico Nacional](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/instituto-politecnico-nacional/), Mexico City, Mexico Tadesse Destaw Belay has 4 papers on this site, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Low-resource languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Martin Semmann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martin-semmann/), [Robert Geislinger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-geislinger/), [Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5040546523) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5040546523) · [38 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5040546523) · [58 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5040546523&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [4 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tadesse-destaw-belay/#papers) · [185 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tadesse-destaw-belay/cited-by/) · 5 more works in our library · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4866](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/49/#star-4866) 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=Tadesse+Destaw+Belay) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tadesse+Destaw+Belay) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tadesse+Destaw+Belay) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tadesse+Destaw+Belay) ## Affiliations - [Instituto Politécnico Nacional](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/instituto-politecnico-nacional/) · Mexico City, Mexico —current · 2021–2026 on 36 papers - [Wollo University](https://ror.org/01ktt8y73) · Dessie, Ethiopia —2021–2024 on 13 papers - [Kombolcha Institute of Technology](https://ror.org/0527hfq87) · Kombolcha —2023–2024 on 3 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Low-resource languages 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Semitic languages 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Machine translation 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Language models & pretraining 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Sentiment & emotion 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Reasoning 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [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/tadesse-destaw-belay/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gete-2025-whispering-amharic-fine-tuning-whisper/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sewunetie-2024-gender-bias-evaluation-machine-translation/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Gender Bias Evaluation in Machine Translation for Amharic, Tigrigna, and Afaan Oromoo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sewunetie-2024-gender-bias-evaluation-machine-translation/)** *(2024 · 5 citations)* Commercial and open MT systems often assign a default gender to occupation words. Low-resource languages have had almost no test material for measuring this. The authors, from the Ethio NLP community, built a gold benchmark for Amharic, Tigrinya and Afaan Oromoo. They gathered 2400 English sentences from existing… 2. **[Whispering in Amharic: Fine-tuning Whisper for Low-resource Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gete-2025-whispering-amharic-fine-tuning-whisper/)** *(2025 · 2 citations)* Whisper performs poorly on Amharic because the language makes up only a tiny part of its multilingual training data. 3. **[Bridging the Culture Gap: A Framework for LLM-Driven Socio-Cultural Localization of Math Word Problems in Low-Resource Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/azime-2026-bridging-culture-gap-framework-llm/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The authors test whether large language models solve math word problems (MWP) just as well when the problems contain local names, organizations and currencies. 4. **[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. ## Also in our library 5 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Martin Semmann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martin-semmann/) ×2 - [Robert Geislinger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-geislinger/) ×2 - [Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad/) ×2 - [Sukairaj Hafiz Imam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sukairaj-hafiz-imam/) ×2 - [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/) - [Dietrich Klakow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dietrich-klakow/) - [Hellina Hailu Nigatu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hellina-hailu-nigatu/) - [Israel Abebe Azime](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/israel-abebe-azime/) - [Philipp Slusallek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philipp-slusallek/) - [Seid Muhie Yimam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seid-muhie-yimam/) - [Serge Sharoff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/serge-sharoff/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 185 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tadesse-destaw-belay/cited-by/).