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Martha Yifiru Tachbelie

Natural Language Systems Group

Current position

• Ph.D. Student at Faculty of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Germany

Other position

• Lecturer at Faculty of informatics, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Education

• Master of Science in Information Science from Addis Ababa University, Faculty of Informatics on July, 2003.

• Bachelor of Library and Information Science from Addis Ababa University, School of Information studies for Africa on July, 1999. Minor in Computer Science

Research interest

• Language modeling
• Morphological analysis and generation
• Finite state morphology
• Induction of Morphology from raw text corpus
• Speech recognition

Publication

Conference papers

• Martha Yifiru Tachbelie, Solomon Teferra Abate and Wolfgang Menzel. 2009. "Morpheme-Based Language Modeling for Amharic Speech Recognition". The 4th Language and Technology Conference (LTC-09), Poznan, Poland. Accepted.

• Martha Yifiru Tachbelie and Wolfgang Menzel. 2009. "Amharic Part-of-Speech Tagger for Factored Language Modeling". International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-2009) ed. by Galia Angelova, Kalina Bontcheva, Ruslan Mitkov, Nicolas Nicolov, Nikolai Nikolov and Kiril Simov, Borovets, Bulgaria.

• Martha Yifiru Tachbelie & Wolfgang Menzel. 2007. "Sub-word Based Language Modeling for Amharic". International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-2007) ed. by Galia Angelova, Kalina Bontcheva, Ruslan Mitkov, Nicolas Nicolov & Nikolai Nikolov, 564-571. Borovets, Bulgaria.

• Solomon Teferra Abate, Martha Yifiru Tachbelie, Wolfgang Menzel. 2007. "Amharic Speech Recognition: Past, Present and Future". In Proceedings of the 16th. International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, July 2007, Trondheim, Norway.

Book Chapters

• Martha Yifiru Tachbelie and Wolfgang Menzel. "Morpheme-based Language Modeling for an Inflectional Language - Amharic". In Nicolas Nicolov and Galia Angelova, editors, Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. John Benjamin's Publisher, Amsterdam & Philadelphia, in press.

Presentations

• Martha Yifiru Tachbelie. "Lack of language resources for Ethiopian languages and its consequences". In the online proceedings of the International Workshop on Language Resource Development for Language Technology Research in Ethiopian Languages. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. November 25 - 26, 2007. http://www.aau.edu.et/ITphd/site/proceedings/proceeding.php

Address

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