@InProceedings{abate-EtAl:2018:C18-1,
  author    = {Abate, Solomon Teferra  and  Melese, Michael  and  Tachbelie, Martha Yifiru  and  Meshesha, Million  and  Atinafu, Solomon  and  Mulugeta, Wondwossen  and  Assibie, Yaregal  and  Abera, Hafte  and  Ephrem, Binyam  and  Abebe, Tewodros  and  Tsegaye, Wondimagegnhue  and  Lemma, Amanuel  and  Andargie, Tsegaye  and  Shifaw, Seifedin},
  title     = {Parallel Corpora for bi-lingual English-Ethiopian Languages Statistical Machine Translation},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {3102--3111},
  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 a bi-directional statistical machine translation experiments. The BLEU scores of the bi-directional Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems show a promising result. The morphological richness of the Ethiopian languages has a great impact on the performance of SMT specially when the targets are Ethiopian languages. Now we are working towards an optimal alignment for a bi-directional English-Ethiopian languages SMT.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1262}
}