Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Zeleke Abebaw Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 112 ISBN: 9783659305955
Описание
The recent growth of ICT infrastructure in Ethiopia is resulting in an exponential increase of digital information in local languages including Amharic. Huge volumes of data are available in Amharic, which is observed on the growing online newspapers, websites, and digital storage's of Ethiopian News Agency. To tackle the agency’s news text management problems, a number of researches have been conducted on automatic processing of Amharic news texts using bag-of-words feature representation. However, using single words as features could result in losing the intended meaning when the concept is created from two or more sequential words. Thus, in order to maintain this concept, a phrase based approach (using bigrams and trigrams) has been proposed and implemented in this research.The result shows that using bigram phrases,the best accuracy (95.3%) has been obtained at four news categories, followed by (81.3%)for eight categories and (72.01%) for twelve categories.On the other hand, for...
