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Dyslexia assessment in Amharic

Educational Psychology in Practice, 2023
This exploratory study aimed at developing a dyslexia assessment tool in the Amharic language and to collect initial reliability and validity data on the tool designed to identify dyslexia in Grade 3. The developed battery consists of 10 tests. Data were
Abebayehu Messele Mekonnen
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Detection and Comparative Analysis of Handwritten Words of Amharic Language to English using CNN-Based Frameworks

International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, 2023
Amharic is made the official working language of Ethiopia from the late 12th century onwards. Amharic is a language with a total of 57.5 million speakers, out of which 32.4 million people are being the first-language speakers or native speakers and ...
S. J. Basha, D. Veeraiah, Boddu Venkat Charan, Wiltrud Sahithi Joyce Yeddu, Devalla Ganesh Babu   +4 more
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Dense Retrieval for Low Resource languages - the Case of Amharic Language

Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
This paper presents our investigation into dense retrieval models for Amharic, a low-resource language spoken by more than 120 million people. We constructed training datasets tailored to dense retrieval models and evaluated model performance by ...
Tilahun Yeshambel, Moncef Garouani, Serge Molina, Josiane Mothe   +3 more
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Walia-LLM: Enhancing Amharic-LLaMA by Integrating Task-Specific and Generative Datasets

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Large language models (LLMs) have received a lot of attention in natural language processing (NLP) research because of their exceptional performance in understanding and generating human languages.
Israel Abebe Azime, Mitiku Yohannes Fuge, A. Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, A. Wassie, Eyasu Shiferaw Jada, Yonas Chanie, W. Sewunetie, Seid Muhie Yimam   +8 more
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Deep Learning Based Amharic Chatbot for FAQs in Universities

arXiv.org
University students often spend a considerable amount of time seeking answers to common questions from administrators or teachers. This can become tedious for both parties, leading to a need for a solution.
Goitom Ybrah Hailu, Shishay Welay
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Error Analysis of Multilingual Language Models in Machine Translation: A Case Study of English-Amharic Translation

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Multilingual large language models (mLLMs) have significantly advanced machine translation, yet challenges remain for low-resource languages like Amharic.
Hizkiel Mitiku Alemayehu, Hamada M. Zahera, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo   +2 more
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Enhancing Sentiment Analysis in Amharic: Leveraging Transformer-Based Language Model for Low-Resource African Languages

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One of the most extensively researched applications in natural language processing (NLP) is sentiment analysis. While the majority of the study focuses on high-resource languages (e.g., English), this research will focus on low-resource African languages,
Nilanjana Raychawdhary, Amit Das, Sutanu Bhattacharya, Gerry V. Dozier, Cheryl D. Seals   +4 more
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The interface between body and culture in the figurative conceptualization of the “eye” in Amharic

Cognitive Linguistic Studies
Inspired by the notions of body-based and culturally specific embodiment, this study sheds light on the interface between body and culture in the Amharic conceptualization of ayn ‘eye.’ Applying the “lexical approach”, this paper examines the eye ...
Sérgio N. Menete, Guiying Jiang
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AGE: Amharic, Ge’ez and English Parallel Dataset

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African languages are not well-represented in Natural Language Processing (NLP). The main reason is a lack of resources for training models. Low-resource languages, such as Amharic and Ge’ez, cannot benefit from modern NLP methods because of the lack of ...
Henok Biadglign Ademtew, Mikiyas Birbo
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Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis on Amharic Text for Evaluating Ethio-Telecom Services

2024 Second International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information Technology and Engineering (ICETITE)
People are increasingly expressing their views and opinions about a company's goods or service on social media these days. For all types of businesses and organizations, sentiment analysis in text can be used to find prospective customers and obtain ...
Tarikwa Tesfa, Befikadu Belete, Samuel Abera, Sudhir Kumar Mohapatra, T. Das   +4 more
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