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title = "Natural Language Processing in {E}thiopian Languages: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities",
author = "Tonja, Atnafu Lambebo and
Belay, Tadesse Destaw and
Azime, Israel Abebe and
Ayele, Abinew Ali and
Mehamed, Moges Ahmed and
Kolesnikova, Olga and
Yimam, Seid Muhie",
editor = "Mabuya, Rooweither and
Mthobela, Don and
Setaka, Mmasibidi and
Van Zaanen, Menno",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023)",
month = may,
year = "2023",
address = "Dubrovnik, Croatia",
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pages = "126--139",
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%T Natural Language Processing in Ethiopian Languages: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities
%A Tonja, Atnafu Lambebo
%A Belay, Tadesse Destaw
%A Azime, Israel Abebe
%A Ayele, Abinew Ali
%A Mehamed, Moges Ahmed
%A Kolesnikova, Olga
%A Yimam, Seid Muhie
%Y Mabuya, Rooweither
%Y Mthobela, Don
%Y Setaka, Mmasibidi
%Y Van Zaanen, Menno
%S Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023)
%D 2023
%8 May
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Dubrovnik, Croatia
%F tonja-etal-2023-natural
%X This survey delves into the current state of natural language processing (NLP) for four Ethiopian languages: Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya, and Wolaytta. Through this paper, we identify key challenges and opportunities for NLP research in Ethiopia.Furthermore, we provide a centralized repository on GitHub that contains publicly available resources for various NLP tasks in these languages. This repository can be updated periodically with contributions from other researchers. Our objective is to disseminate information to NLP researchers interested in Ethiopian languages and encourage future research in this domain.
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.14
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.14
%P 126-139
Markdown (Informal)
[Natural Language Processing in Ethiopian Languages: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities](https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.14) (Tonja et al., RAIL 2023)
ACL
- Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Israel Abebe Azime, Abinew Ali Ayele, Moges Ahmed Mehamed, Olga Kolesnikova, and Seid Muhie Yimam. 2023. Natural Language Processing in Ethiopian Languages: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities. In Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023), pages 126–139, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.