Introducing various Semantic Models for Amharic: Experimentation and Evaluation with multiple Tasks and Datasets

The availability of different pre-trained semantic models enabled the quick development of machine learning components for downstream applications. Despite the availability of abundant text data for low resource languages, only a few semantic models are publicly available. Publicly available pre-tra...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2022-02
Main Authors: Yimam, Seid Muhie, Abinew Ali Ayele, Gopalakrishnan Venkatesh, Gashaw, Ibrahim, Biemann, Chris
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
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Experimentation
Machine learning
Multilingualism
Semantics
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Summary:The availability of different pre-trained semantic models enabled the quick development of machine learning components for downstream applications. Despite the availability of abundant text data for low resource languages, only a few semantic models are publicly available. Publicly available pre-trained models are usually built as a multilingual version of semantic models that can not fit well for each language due to context variations. In this work, we introduce different semantic models for Amharic. After we experiment with the existing pre-trained semantic models, we trained and fine-tuned nine new different models using a monolingual text corpus. The models are build using word2Vec embeddings, distributional thesaurus (DT), contextual embeddings, and DT embeddings obtained via network embedding algorithms. Moreover, we employ these models for different NLP tasks and investigate their impact. We find that newly trained models perform better than pre-trained multilingual models. Furthermore, models based on contextual embeddings from RoBERTA perform better than the word2Vec models.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2011.01154