Martha Yifiru Tachbelie
Martha Yifiru Tachbelie has 2 papers in our library, in 2009–2020, most of them on Semitic languages, Part-of-speech tagging, Language models & pretraining; often with Binyam Ephrem Seyoum, Hafte Abera, Solomon Teferra Abate.
OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 12 · 39 works · 288 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14
📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 9 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8108
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📚 Shelves 4The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 works
🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.Semitic languages · 2 worksLanguage models & pretraining · 1 workPart-of-speech tagging · 1 work
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Papers
- Amharic Part-of-Speech Tagger for Factored Language Modeling (2009 · 22 citations)
Amharic is a Semitic language with root-and-pattern morphology and heavy affixation. This makes word-based language models suffer from sparse data and many unseen words. Earlier morpheme-based models lowered the out-of-vocabulary rate but lost dependencies between whole words. The authors therefore use factored… - Large Vocabulary Read Speech Corpora for Four Ethiopian Languages: Amharic, Tigrigna, Oromo and Wolaytta (2020 · 18 citations)
Speech recognition requires transcribed audio, and most Ethiopian languages have very little of it. The authors at Addis Ababa University built read-speech corpora for four languages from three families: Amharic and Tigrigna (Semitic), Oromo (Cushitic) and Wolaytta (Omotic). Prompt sentences came from web and earlier…
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Venues
- Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC): LREC 2020
- Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP): RANLP 2009
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