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title = "{E}nglish-{E}thiopian Languages Statistical Machine Translation",
author = "Abate, Solomon Teferra and
Melese, Michael and
Tachbelie, Martha Yifiru and
Meshesha, Million and
Atinafu, Solomon and
Mulugeta, Wondwossen and
Assabie, Yaregal and
Abera, Hafte and
Ephrem, Biniyam and
Gebreselassie, Tewodros and
Tufa, Wondimagegnhue Tsegaye and
Lemma, Amanuel and
Andargie, Tsegaye and
Shifaw, Seifedin",
editor = "Axelrod, Amittai and
Yang, Diyi and
Cunha, Rossana and
Shaikh, Samira and
Waseem, Zeerak",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Workshop on Widening NLP",
month = aug,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W19-3611",
pages = "27--30",
abstract = "In this paper, we describe an attempt towards the development of parallel corpora for English and Ethiopian Languages, such as Amharic, Tigrigna, Afan-Oromo, Wolaytta and Ge{'}ez. The corpora are used for conducting bi-directional SMT experiments. The BLEU scores of the bi-directional SMT systems show a promising result. The morphological richness of the Ethiopian languages has a great impact on the performance of SMT especially when the targets are Ethiopian languages.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T English-Ethiopian Languages Statistical Machine Translation
%A Abate, Solomon Teferra
%A Melese, Michael
%A Tachbelie, Martha Yifiru
%A Meshesha, Million
%A Atinafu, Solomon
%A Mulugeta, Wondwossen
%A Assabie, Yaregal
%A Abera, Hafte
%A Ephrem, Biniyam
%A Gebreselassie, Tewodros
%A Tufa, Wondimagegnhue Tsegaye
%A Lemma, Amanuel
%A Andargie, Tsegaye
%A Shifaw, Seifedin
%Y Axelrod, Amittai
%Y Yang, Diyi
%Y Cunha, Rossana
%Y Shaikh, Samira
%Y Waseem, Zeerak
%S Proceedings of the 2019 Workshop on Widening NLP
%D 2019
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Florence, Italy
%F abate-etal-2019-english
%X In this paper, we describe an attempt towards the development of parallel corpora for English and Ethiopian Languages, such as Amharic, Tigrigna, Afan-Oromo, Wolaytta and Ge’ez. The corpora are used for conducting bi-directional SMT experiments. The BLEU scores of the bi-directional SMT systems show a promising result. The morphological richness of the Ethiopian languages has a great impact on the performance of SMT especially when the targets are Ethiopian languages.
%U https://aclanthology.org/W19-3611
%P 27-30
Markdown (Informal)
[English-Ethiopian Languages Statistical Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/W19-3611) (Abate et al., WiNLP 2019)
ACL
- Solomon Teferra Abate, Michael Melese, Martha Yifiru Tachbelie, Million Meshesha, Solomon Atinafu, Wondwossen Mulugeta, Yaregal Assabie, Hafte Abera, Biniyam Ephrem, Tewodros Gebreselassie, Wondimagegnhue Tsegaye Tufa, Amanuel Lemma, Tsegaye Andargie, and Seifedin Shifaw. 2019. English-Ethiopian Languages Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 2019 Workshop on Widening NLP, pages 27–30, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.