Mesay Gemeda Yigezu

My research interests primarily lie in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), with a specific focus on various topics including hate speech and online content verification (disinformation detection), language identification, machine translation, and text classification.

Currently, my research work revolves around the development of multilingual hate speech for low-resource languages. I am passionate about leveraging NLP technique, deep learning algorithms and transformer based architectures to tackle the challenges associated with identifying and combatting hate speech in diverse linguistic contexts.

• Yigezu, M. G., Kolesnikova, O., Sidorov, G., & Gelbukh, A. (2023). Transformer-Based Hate Speech Detection for Multi-Class and Multi-Label Classification.
• Mesay Gemeda Yigezu , Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Olga Kolesnikova, Moein Shahiki Tash, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander Gelbukh. 2022. "Word Level Language Identification in Code-mixed Kannada-English Texts using Deep Learning Approach." Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON).
• Yigezu, M. G., Bade, G. Y., Kolesnikova, O., Sidorov, G., & Gelbukh, A. (2023). Multilingual Hope Speech Detection using Machine Learning.
• Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Michael Melese Woldeyohannis, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja. 2021. "Multilingual neural machine translation for low resourced languages: Ometo-english." 2021 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa (ICT4DA) .
• David Ifeoluwa Adelani et al. 2023. "MASAKHANEWS: NEWS TOPIC CLASSIFICATION FOR AFRICAN LANGUAGES." AfricaNLP workshop at ICLR2023 .
• Kolesnikova, O., Yigezu, M. G., Tonja, A. L., Woldeyohannis, M. M., Sidorov, G., & Gelbukh, A. (2023). Ginger Disease Detection Using a Computer Vision Pre-trained Model. In Innovations in Machine and Deep Learning: Case Studies and Applications (pp. 419-432). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
• Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Michael Melese Woldeyohannis, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja. 2021. "Early Ginger Disease Detection Using Deep Learning Approach." Advances of Science and Technology: 9th EAI International Conference, ICAST 2021,Springer International Publishing, 2022.
• Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Olga Kolesnikova, Moein Shahiki Tash, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander Gelbukh. 2022. "Transformer-based Model for Word Level Language Identification in Code-mixed Kannada-English Texts." Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON).
• M. Shahiki Tash, Z. Ahani, A.l. Tonja, M. Gemeda, N. Hussain, O. Kolesnikova. 2022. "Word Level Language Identification in Code-mixed Kannada-English Texts using traditional machine learning algorithm." Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON).
• Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Michael Melese Woldeyohannis, Mesay Gemeda Yigezu. 2021. "A parallel corpora for bi-directional neural machine translation for low resourced ethiopian languages." International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa (ICT4DA) .

      In progress Publication

• Hate-BERT: Evaluating Domain Task Impact on Hate Speech Detection.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of hybrid features in fake news detection on social media.
• Utilizing Deep and Transfer Learning Approaches for Sentiment Analysis.
• Abusive Comment Detection using Deep Learning Approach.
• Bilingual Word-Level Language Identification for Omotic Languages.