👋 Hi there, I’m Atnafu Lambebo Tonja
- Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
- Education: PhD in Computer Science from Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico.
- Research Interests:
- NLP for under-resourced languages
- Multilingual language models
- Evaluation benchmarks
- Speech & Multimodal NLP
- ACL 2025: The Esethu Framework: Reimagining Sustainable Dataset Governance and Curation for Low-Resource Languages(Paper)
- NAACL 2025: ProverbEval: Exploring LLM Evaluation Challenges for Low-resource Language Understanding (Paper).
- NeurIPS 2024 D&B Track: CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark (Paper).
- EMNLP 2024: The Zeno’s Paradox of ‘Low-Resource’ Languages(Paper);- Walia-LLM: Enhancing Amharic-LLaMA by Integrating Task-Specific and Generative Datasets(Paper)
- LREC-COLING 2024: EthioLLM: Multilingual LLMs for Ethiopian Languages with Task Evaluation(Paper).
- NAACL 2024: NLP Progress in Indigenous Latin American Languages(Paper).
- Languages: Python, Lua, JavaScript
- Frameworks/Libraries: PyTorch, HuggingFace Transformers, Jekyll (AcademicPages)
- Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, Git/GitHub, Linux/Bash, Jupyter