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Seid Muhie Yimam is a postdoctoral researcher and Technical Lead at the University of Hamburg's Department of Informatics under the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences. He has been a Research Associate at the Language Technology (LT) lab since 2012, contributing to NLP tools like Par4Sem, WebAnno, and Network of the Day. He also assists in teaching and student supervision.
- Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing, University of Hamburg (2019)
- M.Sc. in Human Language Technology and Interfaces, University of Trento (2011)
- B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science, Addis Ababa University (2004, 2009)
His research focuses on NLP technologies for social applications and low-resource languages, particularly Ethiopian languages like Amharic. He explores hate speech detection, sentiment analysis, machine translation, and semantic writing aids.
The 15 most recent publications highlight his work across NLP domains: low-resource language processing, hate speech detection, sentiment analysis, and multilingual tools. Subfields include biomedical annotation, cultural emotion analysis, and interactive annotation frameworks.
Seid has developed critical NLP tools such as GermaNER (German NER) and WebAnno (annotation platform). He has supervised master projects and practical NLP classes at the University of Hamburg.
