3 papers
cs.IR2025
CollEX -- A Multimodal Agentic RAG System Enabling Interactive Exploration of Scientific Collections
Florian Schneider, Narges Baba Ahmadi, Niloufar Baba Ahmadi +3
In this paper, we introduce CollEx, an innovative multimodal agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system designed to enhance interactive exploration of extensive scientific…
cs.CL2025
Whispering in Amharic: Fine-tuning Whisper for Low-resource Language
Dawit Ketema Gete, Bedru Yimam Ahmed, Tadesse Destaw Belay +11
This work explores fine-tuning OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for Amharic, a low-resource language, to improve transcription accuracy. While the foundati…
cs.CY2024
Silenced voices: social media polarization and women's marginalization in peacebuilding during the Northern Ethiopia War
Adem Chanie Ali, Seid Muhie Yimam, Abinew Ali Ayele +2
This study examines the complex relationship between social media, polarization, and conflict, with a focus on digital peacebuilding and women's participation, using the Northern E…