Machine Translation Evaluation Dataset for Amharic

# Machine Translation Evaluation Dataset for Amharic 

The dataset contains sentences in Amharic and their corresponding translations
in English that were collected using crowd sourcing. These ground-truth
sentences are from across different domains such as news headlines, social
media, Wikipedia and everyday conversation.

## Metadata of files in the dataset

amen.tsv
  - Domain: news | wiki | twitter | convo
  - Source Sentence: Amharic sentence
  - Reference Translation: English translation
  - Google Translate: output of Google Translate
  - Yandex Translate: output of Yandex Translate

enam.tsv
  - Domain: news | wiki | twitter | convo
  - Source Sentence: English sentence
  - Reference Translation: Amharic translation
  - Google Translate: output of Google Translate
  - Yandex Translate: output of Yandex Translate

## Reference translations across domains

**News**
- These are news headlines from Ethiopian news websites.

**Wikipedia**
- A random sample of sentences from the Amharic Wikipedia.

**Twitter**
- Amharic Twitter posts on consumer products.

**Conversational**
- Everyday conversational expressions from Amharic native speakers.

## Evaluation of two systems that provide Amharic translation

The dataset also contains evaluation of two commercial systems: [Google
Translate](https://translate.google.com/) and [Yandex
Translate](https://translate.yandex.com/). Both systems provide free APIs that
users can sign up and get access keys. The translations were generated on 14th
February 2020.