uhhlt/amharic-stopwords

---
dataset_info:
features:
- name: text
dtype: string
license: apache-2.0
language:
- am
pretty_name: Amharic Stopwords
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---

# Amharic Stopwords

The stopwords are build by [Yimam et al. (2021)](https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/11/275) at [LT Group](https://huggingface.co/uhhlt), University of Hamburg, Germany.
Initially, they were generated using an automated approach based on frequency, followed by manual validation.
### Source

- **GitHub** https://github.com/uhh-lt/ethiopicmodels
- **Dataset:** https://github.com/uhh-lt/ethiopicmodels/blob/master/am/normalization/amstopwords.txt
- **Paper:** https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/11/275

For citing this stopwords, please use the following:

```
@Article{fi13110275,
AUTHOR = {Yimam, Seid Muhie and Ayele, Abinew Ali and Venkatesh, Gopalakrishnan and Gashaw, Ibrahim and Biemann, Chris},
TITLE = {Introducing Various Semantic Models for Amharic: Experimentation and Evaluation with Multiple Tasks and Datasets},
JOURNAL = {Future Internet},
VOLUME = {13},
YEAR = {2021},
NUMBER = {11},
ARTICLE-NUMBER = {275},
URL = {https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/11/275},
ISSN = {1999-5903},
DOI = {10.3390/fi13110275}
}