readme: ---
  language: 
    - am
  thumbnail: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uhh-lt/amharicmodels/master/logo.png?token=AAIB2MYMI6TSIK7CHWYGHKTBQ3FQS"
  tags:
  - Amharic 
  - Semetic language
  license: "mit"
  datasets:
  - Amharic corpus from LT group, UHH
  widget:
  - text: "አበበ <mask> በላ ።"
  - text: "የአገሪቱ አጠቃላይ የስንዴ አቅርቦት ሶስት አራተኛው የሚመረተው በአገር <mask> ነው።"
  - text: "ነገ ጥሩ <mask> የምንሰማ ይመስለኛል ።"
  - text: "ግንባታውን የሚያከናውነው ተቋራጭ በቅርቡ እንደሚገለጽ <mask> አቶ መላኩ፣ ሕንፃው 1.2 ቢሊዮን ብር የሚደርስ ወጪ እንደሚጠይቅ አስታውቀዋል ።"
  
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  # 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](https://github.com/uhh-lt/amharicmodels)
  If you use the model in your work, please cite the following [paper](https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/11/275)
  
  ```
  @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}
  }
  
  ```
    
  