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Semantic Models for Ethiopic

The semantic models resources are added to Lanfrica

amharic-corpus

Semantic models

Amharic Segmenter, toknizer, and translitrator

Announcements

🎉 🎉 🎉 The Amharic RoBERTa model is uploaded in Huggingface Amharic RoBERTa Model 🎉 🎉 🎉

🎉 🎉 The Amharic FLAIR embedding model is integrated into the FLAIR library as `am-forward` 🎉 🎉 The model will be accessible on the next FLAIR release. Details

🎉 🎉 The Amharic Segmenter, Toknizer, and Translitrator is released and can be installed as `pip install amseg` 🎉 🎉

🎉 🎉 The Flair based Amharic NER classifier model is now released am-flair-ner 🎉 🎉

🎉 🎉 The Flair based Amharic Sentiment classifier model is now released am-flair-sent 🎉 🎉

🎉 🎉 The Flair based Amharic POS tagger is now released am-flair-pos 🎉 🎉

Different semantic models and applications for Amharic

Tasks, Datasets and Preprocessing tools

Here, we have described the different NLP tasks for which we built models using the benchmark datasets Tasks
NER
Sentiment
POS tagging
Question classification
Machine Translation

The different datsets and resources are available under: Datasets
Named Entity recognition dataset
POS dataset
Sentiment Dataset
Question Classification Dataset
Machine Translation Dataset

For Etiopic word segmentation, tokenization, and translitration check this project: Segmentation

Publications

To cite the different Amharic NLP models and resources, use the following paper

@Article{fi13110275,
AUTHOR = {Yimam, Seid Muhie and Ayele, Abinew Ali and Venkatesh, Gopalakrishnan and Gashaw, Ibrahim and Biemann, Chris},
TITLE = {Introducing Various Semantic Models for Amharic: Experimentation and Evaluation with Multiple Tasks and Datasets},
JOURNAL = {Future Internet},
VOLUME = {13},
YEAR = {2021},
NUMBER = {11},
ARTICLE-NUMBER = {275},
URL = {https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/11/275},
ISSN = {1999-5903},
DOI = {10.3390/fi13110275}
}

To cite the impacts of homophone normalization, use the the following paper

@inproceedings{belay2021impacts,
  title={Impacts of Homophone Normalization on Semantic Models for Amharic},
  author={Belay, Tadesse Destaw and Ayele, Abinew Ali and Gelaye, Getie and Yimam, Seid Muhie and Biemann, Chris},
  booktitle={2021 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa (ICT4DA)},
  pages={101-106},
  year={2021},
  ISSN = {978-1-6654-3666-3},
  DOI = (10.1109/ICT4DA53266.2021.9672229},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

To cite the Question Answering Classification for Amharic, use the the following paper

@inproceedings{belay2022question,
  title={Question Answering Classification for Amharic Social Media Community Based Questions},
  author={Belay, Tadesse Destaw and Yimam, Seid Muhie and Gelaye, Getie and Ayele, Abinew Ali  and Biemann, Chris},
  booktitle={2022  1st Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL)},
  pages={137-145},
  year={2022},
  publisher={aclanthology}
}

To cite biderectional Amharic to English Machine Translation, use the the following paper

@INPROCEEDINGS{9971385,  
author={Belay, Tadesse Destaw and Tonja, Atnafu Lambebo and Kolesnikova, Olga and Yimam, Seid Muhie and Ayele, Abinew Ali and Haile, Silesh Bogale and Sidorov, Grigori and Gelbukh, Alexander},  
booktitle={2022 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa (ICT4DA)},   
title={The Effect of Normalization for Bi-directional Amharic-English Neural Machine Translation},   
year={2022},  
pages={84-89},  
doi={10.1109/ICT4DA56482.2022.9971385}
}

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