Amharic NLP - Introductions

[yosiasz]

This is the introduction thread for Amharic NLP practitioners.

Welcome! Please introduce yourself and let us know:

• Your name, Github, Hugging Face, and/or Twitter handle
• Your interest in Amharic NLP
• Some projects you are working on or interested in starting
• Any other languages that you speak, any personal interests, anything else really

[yosiasz]

Name: Josiah Solomon, ዮስያስ ሰለሞን

yosiasz (Tito)

Submitted Amharic support in spaCy: https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/pull/6583

[yosiasz]

Amharic: A Morphologically Rich Language

Verb ማወቅ (maweK - to know)
አውቃለሁ ( I know)
ታውቃለህ (you know male)
ታውቂያለሽ (you know female)
ያውቃል (he knows)
ታውቃለች (she knows)
ታውቃላችሁ (you know plural)
እናውቃለን (we know)
ያውቃሉ (they know, also used when referring to an older person)

[Zaid]

Hey @yosiasz, can you please add these examples to MRLs (Morphologically Rich Languages) NLP

[israel]

Hello, Israel Abebe (twitter.com/Israel_Abebe) here.

currently am training Amharic BERT With 3 million sentence example.
It would be nice if we release good pretrained model for it.

happy to collaborate.

[yosiasz]

it also includes geez ዕበያ ለድንግል ኢይትከሃል ለተነግሮ እስመ እግዚእ ኃረያ፡ nice!