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most citedExplainable Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Needs, Techniques, Applications, and Future Direction

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cs.CL2026★ 2 cited

Explainable AI: Context-Aware Layer-Wise Integrated Gradients for Explaining Transformer Models

Melkamu Abay Mersha, Jugal Kalita

Transformer models achieve state-of-the-art performance across domains and tasks, yet their deeply layered representations make their predictions difficult to interpret. Existing e…

cs.CL2025

Semantic-Driven Topic Modeling for Analyzing Creativity in Virtual Brainstorming

Melkamu Abay Mersha, Jugal Kalita

Virtual brainstorming sessions have become a central component of collaborative problem solving, yet the large volume and uneven distribution of ideas often make it difficult to ex…

cs.CL2025★ 15 cited

Explainable AI: XAI-Guided Context-Aware Data Augmentation

Melkamu Abay Mersha, Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja +4

Explainable AI (XAI) has emerged as a powerful tool for improving the performance of AI models, going beyond providing model transparency and interpretability. The scarcity of labe…

cs.CL2025

A Unified Framework with Novel Metrics for Evaluating the Effectiveness of XAI Techniques in LLMs

Melkamu Abay Mersha, Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Hassan Shakil +3

The increasing complexity of LLMs presents significant challenges to their transparency and interpretability, necessitating the use of eXplainable AI (XAI) techniques to enhance tr…

cs.CL2025★ 19 cited

Evaluating the Effectiveness of XAI Techniques for Encoder-Based Language Models

Melkamu Abay Mersha, Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Jugal Kalita

The black-box nature of large language models (LLMs) necessitates the development of eXplainable AI (XAI) techniques for transparency and trustworthiness. However, evaluating these…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Explainability in Neural Networks for Natural Language Processing Tasks

Melkamu Mersha, Mingiziem Bitewa, Tsion Abay +1

Neural networks are widely regarded as black-box models, creating significant challenges in understanding their inner workings, especially in natural language processing (NLP) appl…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Ethio-Fake: Cutting-Edge Approaches to Combat Fake News in Under-Resourced Languages Using Explainable AI

Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Melkamu Abay Mersha, Girma Yohannis Bade +3

The proliferation of fake news has emerged as a significant threat to the integrity of information dissemination, particularly on social media platforms. Misinformation can spread…

cs.CL2024

Semantic-Driven Topic Modeling Using Transformer-Based Embeddings and Clustering Algorithms

Melkamu Abay Mersha, Mesay Gemeda yigezu, Jugal Kalita

Topic modeling is a powerful technique to discover hidden topics and patterns within a collection of documents without prior knowledge. Traditional topic modeling and clustering-ba…

cs.CL2023

First Attempt at Building Parallel Corpora for Machine Translation of Northeast India's Very Low-Resource Languages

Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Melkamu Mersha, Ananya Kalita +2

This paper presents the creation of initial bilingual corpora for thirteen very low-resource languages of India, all from Northeast India. It also presents the results of initial t…