Why EthioNLP?
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is one of the core component of AI. There are efforts throughout the world to conduct NLP for Ethiopian languages but without a formal communication among researchers. At COLING 2018, Santa Fe, USA, three researchers from Addis Ababa University (Binyam), University of Hamburg (Seid), and University of Trento (Surafel) took an initiative to create a formal NLP society for Ethiopian language NLP research.
✔ Ethiopia is a country with multinational and multilingual that support more that 83 different languages
✔ All the languages are underrepresented in NLP application. Now, EthioNLP is a well-organized and research oriented community
Our Focus Areas
NLP Corpus and Dataset Creation
Language Model Building
Research & Collaboration
Assist Education Quality
Academy to Industry Linkage
Marketplace for Professionals
Our Mission
Our mission is to advance the understanding and application of natural language processing technologies to foster innovation and growth in the field. Our community goals are but not limited to:
✔ Identify, prioritize and focus on NLP research topics for Ethiopian languages
✔ Organize workshops, seminars, and conferences for Ethiopic NLP researches
✔ Join efforts among Ethiopian NLP related researchers around the world
✔ Supporting and mentoring students in NLP and data science research.
✔ Bringing the NLP community working on Ethiopian languages together
✔ Coordinating resources for Ethiopian language research.
✔ Collaborate with Ethiopian universities and assist education quality
✔ Suggest and participate in possible Ethiopian NLP researches
✔ Setting goals, priorities, and tracks on Ethiopian language NLP