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Towards amharic semantic search engine

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Recently the amount of documents written in Amharic language has been dramatically increasing. Searching such content using localized and regional version of general search engine such as google.com.et returns documents containing search key terms while excluding specific characteristics of Amharic Language.
In this paper, we present the design and implementation of Semantic Search Engine for Amharic documents. The search engine has Crawler, Ontology/Knowledge base, Indexer and Query Processor that consider characteristics of Amharic language. The ontology provides shared concepts Sport. This ontology is built manually by language and sport domain experts and it is used in building semantic indexer, ranker and query engine. In addition, we show how the system facilitate meaning based searching, document relevant and popularity based documents ranking.

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  • (2022)Answering an Amharic Language Semantic Question over Interlinked Data2022 16th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS)10.1109/SITIS57111.2022.00011(9-16)Online publication date: Oct-2022
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    MEDES '15: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Management of computational and collective intElligence in Digital EcoSystems
    October 2015
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    1. document annotation
    2. football domain ontology
    3. query processor
    4. search engine
    5. semantic indexing
    6. semantic information retrieval

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    • (2022)Answering an Amharic Language Semantic Question over Interlinked Data2022 16th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS)10.1109/SITIS57111.2022.00011(9-16)Online publication date: Oct-2022

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