Publications

My Publications (Solomon Atnafu)

On Reputable Journals:

1. Abebaw, Z., Rauber, A. & Atnafu, S.; Transliterating Latin to Amharic scripts using user-defined rules and character mappings. International Journal on Digital Libraries volume 24, pages 63–75 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00346-5

2. Abebaw, Z., Rauber, A., Atnafu, S. (2022). Design and implementation of a multichannel convolutional neural network for hate speech detection in social networks. Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 175-183. https://doi.org/10.18280/ria.360201

3. Girma Neshir, Andreas Rauber, and Solomon Atnafu, Topic Modeling for Amharic User Generated Texts; MDPI, Journal of Information 2021, 12, 401. https://doi.org/10.3390/info12100401

4. Nehsir, G.; Rauber, A.; Atnafu, S. Meta‑Learner for Amharic Sentiment Classification. MDPI, Journal of Appl. Sci. 2021, 11, 8489. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11188489

5. Getachew B. Demisse, Tsegaye Tadesse, Yared Bayissa, Solomon Atnafu, Mekuria Argaw & Dessie Nedaw; Vegetation condition prediction for drought monitoring in pastoralist areas: a case study in Ethiopia; INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING, 2018; Pages 1-17; Taylor & Francis; http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01431161.2017.1421797.

6. Demisse, G.B.; Tadesse, T.; Atnafu, S.; Hill, S.; Wardlow, B.D.; Bayissa, Y.; Shiferaw, A. Information Mining from Heterogeneous Data Sources: A Case Study on Drought Predictions. Open Access Information Science Journal; 2017, 8, 79. Open Access Information Science Journal; Volume 8, Number 3, Page 79, Year: 2017. ISSN 2078-2489; CODEN: INFOGG. 

7. Woldmariam, Mesfin;Ghinea, Gheorghita;Solomon, Atnafu;Grønli, Tor-Morten; Monetary Practices of Traditional Rural Communities in Ethiopia: Implications for New Financial Technology Design; Human-Computer Interaction, 2016;  doi:10.1080/07370024.2016.1139461

8. Getachew T. Ayehu, Solomon A. Besufekad; Land Suitability Analysis for Rice Production: A GIS Based Multi-Criteria Decision Approach; American Journal of Geographic Information System, 2015 4(3), pp. 95-104. 

9. Berhan G., Tadesse T. and Atnafu S.; Drought Spatial Object Prediction Approach using Artificial Neural Network; Journal of Geoinformatics & Geostatistics: An Overview; 2015, 3:2; http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2327-4581.1000132.

10. Demisse, G., Hill, S., Tadesse, T., Atnafu, S. Drought Prediction System for Improved Climate Change Mitigation, IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 52(7); pp 1 -6. ISSN: 0196-2892, 2014.

11. Demisse, G., Tadesse, T., Atnafu, S., Hill, S., Tesfatsion, Y.; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and Standard Precipitation Index Parameters to Monitor Drought at National Scale: The Case of Ethiopia, Ethiopian Journal of Development Research, Vol. 34, No. 1, April 2012, pp. 67 - 94

12. Tessema Mindaye, Hassen Redwan, Solomon Atnafu; Searching the Web for Amharic Content; On the International Journal of Multimedia Processing and Technologies (JMPT), 2010. ISSN Print ISSN: 0976-4127, Online ISSN: 0976-4135.

13. Getachew Berhan, Tsegaye Tadesse, Solomon Atnafu, Shawndra Hill (2011), Using Satellite Images or Drought Monitoring: A Knowledge Discovery Approach, Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2011, ISSN: 0378-0813 (In print).

14. Dawit Bulcha Amenu, Solomon Atnafu, D Coquil, L. Brunie, R. Chbeir ; Salient-Object-Based Image Query by Visual Content;  Journal des Sciences pour l'Ingénieur (7):79-86, ISSN 0851-4453.   2006. 

15. Solomon Atnafu, Richard Chbeir , Lionel Brunie; Efficient Content-Based and Metadata Retrieval in Image Database, Journal of Universal Computer Science, Volume 8, Issue 6 (http://www.jucs.org), July 2002, Springer Co. Pub. 

16. Harald Kosch and Solomon Atnafu; A Multimedia Join by the Method of Nearest Neighbor Search; Information Processing Letters (IPL), Volume 82, Issue 5, 15 June 2002, Elsevier Press, pp. 269-276. 

Book Chapters:

1. Zeleke Abebaw, Andreas Rauber, Solomon Atnafu; Multi-channel Convolutional Neural Network for Hate Speech Detection in Social Media ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2022; Published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022, M. L. Berihun (Ed.): ICAST 2021, LNICST 411, pp. 603–618, 2022; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93709-6_41.

2. Solomon Atnafu, Dessalegn Mequanint and Yigremew Adal; E-local governance: a case study on life-event services in the kebeles of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; on the book "Local Governance and ICTs in Africa; Case Studies and Guidelines for Implementation and Evaluation"; Edited by Timothy Mwololo Waema and Edith Ofwona Adera. ISBN 978–0–85749–032–2 paperback (Pambazuka), ISBN 978–1–55250–518–2 e-book (IDRC), Printed in the United Kingdom by the MPG Books Group, 2011.

3. Getachew, Berhan, Tsegaye, Tadesse, Solomon Atnafu., Shawndra, Hill.; Drought Monitoring in Food Insecure Areas of Ethiopia by Using Satellite Technologies, on the book: "Experiences of Climate Change Adaptation in Africa" (editor: Prof. Walter Leal Filho), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2011; ISBN 978-3-642-22314-3

On Proceedings of  Peer-Reviewed International Conferences:

1. Deressa Wodajo, Solomon Atnafu; Deepfake Video Detection using Convolutional Vision Transformer; 2021/2/22; Journal, arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.11126; https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11126 .

2. Abebaw, Z., Rauber, A., Atnafu, S. (2022). Multi-channel Convolutional Neural Network for Hate Speech Detection in Social Media. In: Berihun, M.L. (eds) Advances of Science and Technology. ICAST 2021. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 411. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93709-6_41 

3. GN Alemneh, A Rauber, S Atnafu; Negation handling for Amharic sentiment classification; Proceedings of the The Fourth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop, 4-6; 2020.

4. GN Alemneh, A Rauber, S Atnafu; Corpus based Amharic sentiment lexicon generation; Proceedings of the The Fourth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop, 1-3; 2020.

5. ST Abate, MY Tachbelie, MM Woldeyohannis, H Abera, T Abebe, WM Gewe, Y Assabie, M Meshesha, S Atnafu, BE Seyoum; Large Vocabulary Read Speech Corpora for Four Ethiopian Languages: Amharic, Tigrigna, Oromo and Wolaytta; Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020)At: Marseille, France; 2020.

6. GN Alemneh, A Rauber, S Atnafu; Dictionary Based Amharic Sentiment Lexicon Generation; Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa; 311-326; Springer, Cham; 2019.

7. ST Abate, MM Woldeyohannis, MY Tachbelie, M Meshesha, S Atnafu, WM Gewe, Y Assabie, H Abera, BE Seyoum, T Abebe, W Tsegaye, A Lemma, T Andargie, and S Shifaw; Parallel Corpora for bi-lingual English-Ethiopian Languages Statistical Machine Translation; COLINGAt: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; August 2018.

8. Melkamu Beyene, Pierre-Edouard Portier, Solomon Atnafu, Sylvie Calabretto: Tensor factorization for cross lingual entity co-reference resolution in the linked open data. MEDES 2015: 25-29 October 2015, Caraguatatuba/Sao Paulo, Brazil.

9. Gashaw Tsegaye, Solomon Atnafu; Design of local web content observatory system; Procedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Green Innovation for African Renaissance (AFRICON - 2015), pp: 1-5; 14 - 17 September 2015; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 

10. Solomon Atnafu; Local Internet Content: the Case of Ethiopia; the 12th Globelics International Conference; 29th – 31st October 2014 · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, At Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

11. Mesfin F. Woldmariam, George Ghinea, Solomon Atnafu: Towards a Digital Money Structure for illiterate Users; ECIS 2014 Proceedings - 22nd European Conference on Information Systems, Tel Avivi, Israel; 9-11 June, 2014.

12. Mesfin F. Woldmariam, Gheorghita Ghinea, Solomon Atnafu, Tor-Morten Grønli: Mobile Money System Design for Illiterate Users in Rural Ethiopia. HCI (10) 2014: pp. 482-491.

13. Woldmariam F Mesfin, Solomon Atnafu and Gheorghita Ghinea; Open Air Market and Mobile Money Information System Requirements; 2013 Proceedings of the International Conference on ICT for Smart Society (ICISS 2013); IEEE. Jakarta, Indonesia; 13 - 14 June 2013. 

14. G. Berhan, S. Atnafu, T Tadesse, S Hill; Drought information mining from satellite images for improved climate change mitigation; World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), 30 October - 02 November 2012, Trivandrum, India; 2012.

15. Woldmariam F. Mesfin, Gheorghita Ghinea, Solomon Atnafu; Towards understanding the rural financial ecosystem in Ethiopia: perspective from case studyTowards understanding the rural financial ecosystem in Ethiopia: perspective from case study; Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems; Pages 103-108; MEDES '12, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

16. Henok Sahilu, Solomon Atnafu; Towards Measuring User Query Tendency for Legal Document Retrieval; The 23rd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. JURIX 2010. University of Liverpool, UK, 16 -17 December 2010; Published as book by IOS Press; ISBN 978-1-60750-681-2 (print); ISBN 978-1-60750-682-9 (online); Volume 223  pp. 167. 

17. Leykun Birhanu, Solomon Atnafu, Fekade Getahun; Native XML Document Fragmentation Model, The 6th IEEE International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS 2010); 15 - 18 December; Kuala Lumpur; Malaysia.

18. Henok Sahilu, Solomon Atnafu; Change-Aware Legal Document Retrieval Model; On the International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital Eco-Systems (MEDES 2010); Bangkok, Thailand, October 26 - 29, 2010. ISBN: 978-1-4503-0047-6.

19. Solomon Atnafu, Andualem Workneh, Yonnan Getachew; Epidemic and Communicable Disease Surveillance Data Reporting and Medical Cases Communication System; Mobile for Development International Conference (M4D 2010); Uganda, Kampala; 10 - 11 November 2010.

20. Andualem Workneh, Yonnan Getachew, Gedion Tamene, and Solomon Atnafu; "The “ሀለሐ” Virtual Ethiopic Keyboard for Smart Phones" by Mobile for Development International Conference (M4D 2010); Uganda, Kampala; 10 - 11 November 2010.

21. Getachew Berhan, Solomon Atnafu, Anat Hovav;  Knowledge Discovery from Satellite Images for Drought Monitoring in Food Insecure Areas; 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems; Proceedings of the Sixteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Lima, Peru, August 12-15, 2010; AMCIS-0569-2010.R1.

22. Tessema Mindaye, Solomon Atnafu; Design and Implementation of Amharic Search Engine;The 5th IEEE International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems (SITIS 2009); Track Information Management & Retrieval Technologies (IMRT); November 29th – December 4th,2009, Marrakesh,Morocco. 

23. Tizita Zewde, Solomon atnafu; Audio Data Model for Multi-criteria Query Formulation and Retrieval; In the Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM2009) - ERPAS2009 (ISBN 78-1-60558-659-5); 14 - 16 December 2009; Kuala Lumpur; Malaysia.

24. Hassen Redwan, Tessema Mindaye, Solomon Atnafu; Search Engine for Amharic Web Content; On the proceedings of the 9th IEEE AFRICON International Conference Africon 2009, 23 - 25 September 2009, Nairobi, Kenya.

25. Solomon Atnafu, Dessalegn Mekuanint, Yigremew Adal, E-Local Governance: A Case Study on Life-Event Services in the Kebeles of the City Government of Addis Ababa, on the Proceedings of the LOG-IN Africa e-local Governance International Conference, Cairo, Egypt, 5th – 6th June 2008.

26. Fekade Getahun, Joe Tekli, Solomon Atnafu, Richard Chbeir: The use of semantic-based predicates implication to improve horizontal multimedia database fragmentation; Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on The Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics, MS 2007, Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, September 28, 2007. ACM 2007, ISBN 978-1-59593-782-7; pp. 29-38, MS 2007.

27. Fekade Getahun, Joe Tekli, Solomon Atnafu, Richard Chbeir: Towards Efficient Horizontal Multimedia Database Fragmentation using Semantic-based Predicates Implication; XXII Simpósio Brasileiro de Banco de Dados, 15-19 de Outubro, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brasil, Anais. SBBD 2007: 68-82, 2007.

28. Dawit Bulcha; Solomon Atnafu, D Coquil, L. Brunie, R. Chbeir;  Salient-Object-Based Image Query by Visual Content;  On IEEE International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet Based Systems (SITIS'05), Yaoundé (Cameroun).   2005.  

29. Solomon Atnafu, R. Chbeir, D Coquil, L. Brunie;   Integrating Similarity-based Queries in Image DBMSs;   The 19th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2004), Hilton Park Hotel, Nicosia, Cyprus, March 14 -17, 2004, pp. 735-739.

30. David COQUIL, Solomon ATNAFU, Richard CHBEIR, Lionel BRUNIE;   EMIMS: -A Medical Image Management System with a Visual Multi-Criteria Query Interface;   15th International Conference on Information Resource Management (IRMA'2003), IRMA Press, May 18-21, 2003, Philadelphia, USA.2003.  

31. Solomon Atnafu, Richard Chbeir , Lionel Brunie; Efficient Content-Based and Metadata Retrieval in Image Database, On the Proceedings of the I-KNOW’02 Conference, Graz, Austria, July 11-12, 02, pp. 118-127.

32. Solomon Atnafu, Richard Chbeir, Lionel Brunie; Content-Based and Metadata Retrieval in Medical Image Database; 15th IEEE Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2002) June 4th - 7th, 2002, Maribor, Slovenia.

33. Richard Chbeir, Solomon Atnafu, André Flory, Lionel Brunie; Efficient Method for Image Indexing: A Case for Medical Application; 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT'02), December 18-21, 2002, Marrakesh, Morocco, 

34. Richard Chbeir, Solomon Atnafu, Lionel Brunie, Image Data Model for Efficient Multi-Criteria Query in Medical Database; 14th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2002), 24th-26th July, pp.165- 175, Edinburgh, Scotland.

35. Solomon Atnafu, Lionel Brunie, and Harald Kosch, Similarity-Based Operators and Query Optimization for Multimedia Database Systems; International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS'01), July 16-18, 2001, Grenoble, France; IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 346-355.

36. Solomon Atnafu, Lionel Brunie, and Harald Kosch, Similarity-Based Algebra for Multimedia Databases, In the Proc. the 12th Australian Database Conference (ADC'01), Gold Cost, Australia, Jan. 29 - Feb. 2, 2001, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 115-122.

37. Solomon Atnafu, Lionel Brunie, and Harald Kosch, Modeling Data Repository and Formalizing Content-Based Queries for Image Databases; ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA'01), Beirut, Lebanon, June 25-29, 2001, IEEE Computer Society Press.

38. Solomon Atnafu, Lionel Brunie, and Harald Kosch, Similarity-Based Operators in Image Database Systems; The 2nd International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM'2001), Xi'an, China, July 9-11, 2001, LNCS 2118, Springer Verlag, pp. 14-25.

Monographs:

1. Abnet Shimeles, Solomon Atnafu, Online Handwriting Recognition System for Ethiopic Characters: Analysis, Modeling and Design with Experimental Results, VDM Verlag, Saarbrueken, Germany, ISBN-10: 3639182138, ISBN-13: 978-3639182132; August, 2009.

2. Daniel Kefale, Solomon Atnafu, Multi-script Text Editing based on online Handwriting Recognition: Modeling a case of Ethiopic and Latin script for PDA devices, VDM Verlag, Saarbrueken, Germany, ISBN-10: 3639180208, ISBN-13: 978-3639180206, August, 2009.

3. Tizeta Zewide, Solomon Atnafu, Modeling Audio Data for Multi-criteria Query Formulation: With an Application Scenario in the Medical Domain, VDMVerlag,ISBN-10: 3639193881, Saarbrueken, Germany, ISBN-13: 978-3639193886, September, 2009.

4. Tessema Mindaye, Solomon Atnafu, Search Engine for Amharic Language Web Documents, VDM Verlag, Saarbrueken, Germany, ISBN-10: 3639196325, ISBN-13: 978-3639196320, September, 2009.

5. Solomon Nega Dagnachew, Daniel Yacob, Solomon Atnafu, Analysis of Semantic Technologies: for Ethiopic Church Manuscript, VDM Verlag, Saarbrueken, Germany, ISBN-10: 3639185285, ISBN-13: 978-3639185287, August, 2009.

6. Abera Abebaw Ayehu, Solomon Atnafu; Implementation of Handwriting Recognition for Ethiopic Characters, VDM Verlag, Saarbrueken, Germany, ISBN-10: 3639190912, ISBN-13: 978-3639190915, September, 2009        .

7. Dessalegn Mequanint, Solomon Atnafu, Similarity-Based Video Retrieval: Modeling Similarity-Based Video Retrieval Systems, VDM Verlag, Saarbrueken, Germany, ISBN-10: 3639121163, ISBN-13:978-3639121162, November, 2009.

8. Nesredien Suleiman, Solomon Atnafu, Word Prediction for Amharic Online Handwriting Recognition, VDM Verlag, Saarbrueken, Germany, ISBN-10: 3639175255, ISBN-13: 978-3639175257,  December, 2009.

On Proceedings of  Peer-Reviewed National Conferences:

1. Tadegew Bogale, Solomon Atnafu; Modeling Smart Mobile Money Wallet and Offline Payment; Ethiopian the 9th Annual Conference 2016 (EICTAC 2016); June 8, 2016, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

2. Gashaw Tsegaye, Solomon Atnafu; Local Web Content Observatory System: the Case of Ethiopian Languages on the web; Ethiopian the 9th Annual Conference 2016 (EICTAC 2016); June 8, 2016, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

3. Daniel Abebe, Solomon Atnafu; Design and Implementation of Mobile Patient Follow-Up System, June 08, 2012; 5th ICT Ethiopia Conference, MCIT.

4. Gedion Tamene, Andualem Workneh, Yonan Getachew, Solomon Atnafu;  Design of Virtual Keyboard for Ethiopic Text Entry on Mobile Devices; Proceedings of the National Confrence on Building Software in the Developing World; Ethiopian ICT Forum; Oct 27, 2011; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 

5. Nesredien Suleiman, Solomon Atnafu; Word Prediction Model for Amharic Text Input Methods; Proceedings of the National Confrence on Building Software in the Developing World; Ethiopian ICT Forum; Oct 27, 2011; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

6. Getachew Berhan, Solomon Atnafu, Tsegaye Tadesse, Shawndra Hill; Drought Object Modeling for Climate Change Mitigation: The Case of Ethiopia; Proceedings of the National Confrence on Building Software in the Developing World; Ethiopian ICT Forum; Oct 27, 2011; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 

7. Amsale Zelalem, Solomon Atnafu; Design and Implementation of Multilingual Electronic Dictionary and Translator for Smart Phones: for Amharic, Oromiffa, Tigrigna and the English Language; Proceedings of the National Confrence on Building Software in the Developing World; Ethiopian ICT Forum; Oct 27, 2011; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 

8. Getachew Berhan and Solomon Atnafu, Drought Monitoring using Satellite Technologies in Food Insecure Areas; On the proceedings of the Ninth Annual Multidisciplinary Research Conference, 25 June 2010, Unity University, Gerji Campus, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

9. Solomon Atnafu, Andualem Workneh, Yonnan Getachew; Epidemic and Communicable Disease Cases Reporting and Communication System: A Mobile e-Health System Designed based on the Requirements of the Ministry of Health, Ethiopia; On the 46th Annual Conference of Ethiopian Medical Association; May 4-5, 2010; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Venue: ECA Conference Hall.

10. S. Abebe, S. Atnafu, S.K. Kassegn; “Ethiopic Keyboard Mapping and Predictive Text Inputting Algorithm in a Wireless Environment.”; The International Symposium on ICT Education and Application in Developing Countries, 19-21 October 2004; ICTES-2004, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Venue: ECA Conference Hall.

11. F. Lemma, S. Atnafu, S.K. Kassegne; “Survey of Current Efforts and Potentials in Application of Telemedicine in Ethiopia”, The International Symposium on ICT Education and Application in Developing Countries, 19-21 October 2004; ICTES-2004, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Venue: ECA Conference Hall.