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Semantic Models for Amharic

The semantic models resources are added to Lanfrica

Announcements

πŸŽ‰ πŸŽ‰ πŸŽ‰ The Amharic RoBERTa model is uploaded in Huggingface Amharic RoBERTa Model πŸŽ‰ πŸŽ‰ πŸŽ‰

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

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

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

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

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

Different semantic models and applications for Amharic



Tasks, Datasets and Preprocessing tools



  • For Amahric 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={Page will appear},
  year={2022},
  publisher={arXiv}
}