Introduction

This is the Amharic RoBERTa transformer-based LM. It is part of the effort to build benchmark datasets and models for Amharic NLP.

Examples

If you want to test the model in the Hosted inference API , copy the following texts to the box (right side)

Example 1:

አበበ <mask> በላ ።

Example 2:

የአገሪቱ አጠቃላይ የስንዴ አቅርቦት ሶስት አራተኛው የሚመረተው በአገር <mask> ነው።

The example shows possible words for the fill in the blank -- mask task

Resources and publication

More resource regarding Amharic NLP is available here If you use the model in your work, please cite the following paper

@Article{fi13110275,
AUTHOR = {Yimam, Seid Muhie and Ayele, Abinew Ali and Venkatesh, Gopalakrishnan and Gashaw, Ibrahim and Biemann, Chris},
TITLE = {Introducing Various Semantic Models for Amharic: Experimentation and Evaluation with Multiple Tasks and Datasets},
JOURNAL = {Future Internet},
VOLUME = {13},
YEAR = {2021},
NUMBER = {11},
ARTICLE-NUMBER = {275},
URL = {https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/11/275},
ISSN = {1999-5903},
DOI = {10.3390/fi13110275}
}