Papers by Andargachew Mekonnen Gezmu
Extended Parallel Corpus for Amharic-English Machine Translation (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to automate the complex task of translation are tedious and expensive. |
| Approach: | They describe acquisition, preprocessing, segmentation, and alignment of an Amharic-English parallel corpus. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus outperforms statistical machine translation models by six to seven BLEU points . the results show that the subword models outperformed word-based models by three to four BLUE points compared with the word-base models . |
Portable Spelling Corrector for a Less-Resourced Language: Amharic (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | a corpus-driven spelling corrector for Amharic is ported to other languages with little effort . a term list is used for spelling errors and can handle rare terms, proper nouns and neologisms. |
| Approach: | They propose an automatic spelling corrector for Amharic, the working language of the Federal Government of Ethiopia. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baseline systems in Amharic and English . it has smoothed language model, generalized error model and ability to take into account context of misspellings. |