@InProceedings{teferraabate-EtAl:2018:W18-38,
  author    = {Teferra Abate, Solomon  and  Melese, Michael  and  Yifiru Tachbelie, Martha  and  Meshesha, Million  and  Atinafu, Solomon  and  Mulugeta, Wondwossen  and  Assabie, 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-Directional Statistical Machine Translation for Seven Ethiopian Language Pairs},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the First Workshop on Linguistic Resources for Natural Language Processing},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {83--90},
  abstract  = {In this paper, we describe the development of parallel corpora for Ethiopian Languages: Amharic, Tigrigna, Afan-Oromo, Wolaytta and Geez. To check the usability of all the corpora we conducted baseline bi-directional statistical machine translation (SMT) experiments for seven language pairs. The performance of the bi-directional SMT systems shows that all the corpora can be used for further investigations. We have also shown that the morphological complexity of the Ethio-Semitic languages has a negative impact on the performance of the SMT especially when they are target languages. Based on the results we obtained, we are currently working towards handling the morphological complexities to improve the performance of statistical machine translation among the Ethiopian languages.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-3812}
}