--- title: "Yosef Worku Alemneh — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Yosef Worku Alemneh: 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/yosef-worku-alemneh/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yosef-worku-alemneh/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yosef Worku Alemneh # Yosef Worku Alemneh Yosef Worku Alemneh has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [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/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Kidist Amde Mekonnen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kidist-amde-mekonnen/), [Maarten de Rijke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-de-rijke/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5119181425) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5119181425) · [4 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5119181425) · [2 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5119181425&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yosef-worku-alemneh/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yosef-worku-alemneh/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12072](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/121/#star-12072) 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=Yosef+Worku+Alemneh) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yosef+Worku+Alemneh) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yosef+Worku+Alemneh) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yosef+Worku+Alemneh) ## 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 · 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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 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 · 2 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** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yosef-worku-alemneh/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yosef-worku-alemneh/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. **[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 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Kidist Amde Mekonnen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kidist-amde-mekonnen/) ×2 - [Maarten de Rijke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-de-rijke/) ×2 ## 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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yosef-worku-alemneh/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026