Atelach Alemu Argaw

I am a PhD student at GSLT and also part of the Laboratory for Data Mining and Decision Analysis (DMDA) at DSV

Research interests:

• Cross Language Information Retrieval

• Machine Learning

• Natural Language Processing

Publications:

Book Chapters:

[Argaw, 2008a]
Atelach Alemu Argaw. "Amharic-English Information Retrieval with Pseudo Relevance Feedback". In: Peters, C., et al. (eds.) Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval: 8th Workshop of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 119-126. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg. 2008

[Argaw et. al., 2006]
Atelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker, Rickard Cöster, Jussi Karlgren, and Magnus Sahlgren. "Dictionary-based Amharic-French Information Retrieval". In: Peters, C., et al. (eds.) Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories: 6th Workshop of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria, September 21-23, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 83-92. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2006.

Journal Articles:

[Asker et. al., 2008]- Forthcoming
Atelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker, Björn Gambäck, Samuel Eyassu Asfeha, Lemma Nigussie Habte. "Classifying Amharic Web News". Journal of Information Retrieval Special Issue on Non-English Web Retrieval, 2008.

Conference Articles (Refereed):

[Argaw, 2008c]
Atelach Alemu Argaw. "Ranked Terms List for Computer Assisted Translation". (Poster Presentation) Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics (LULCL) II Combining efforts to foster computational support of minority languages. Bolzano/Bozen, Italy. November 2008.

[Argaw, 2008b]
Atelach Alemu Argaw. "Word Sense Discrimination Using Context Vector Similarity". The second Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC-08), Stockholm, Sweden, November 2008.

[Argaw and Asker, 2006b]
Atelach Alemu Argaw and Lars Asker. "An Amharic Stemmer : Reducing Words to their Citation Forms". In proceedings of Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources. A Workshop at ACL 2007, Prague, Czech Republic. June 2007.

[Asker and Argaw, 2006]
Atelach Alemu Argaw and Lars Asker. "Amharic-English Information Retrieval". Working Notes of CLEF 2006, Alicante, Spain. September 2006.

[Asker et. al., 2006]
Atelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker, Björn Gambäck, and Magnus Sahlgren. "Applying Machine Learning to Amharic Text Classification". Proceedings of The 5th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL), Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. August 2006.

[Argaw and Asker, 2006a]
Atelach Alemu Argaw and Lars Asker. "Increased Retrieval Performance using Word Sense Discrimination". In Proceedings of The 13th Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN 2006), Leuven, Belgium. April 2006.

[Argaw and Asker, 2005]
Atelach Alemu Argaw and Lars Asker. "Web Mining for an Amharic - English Bilingual Corpus". In Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2005), Miami, USA. May 2005.

[Argaw et. al, 2004b]
Atelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker, Rickard Cöster and Jussi Karlgren. "Dictionary-based Amharic - English Information Retrieval". In Proceedings of Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2004), Bath, UK. September 2004.

[Argaw et. al, 2004a]
Atelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker, and Gunnar Eriksson. "Building an Amharic Lexicon from Parallel Texts" (Poster presentation), in Proceedings of First Steps for Language Documentation of Minority Languages: Computational Linguistic Tools for Morphology, Lexicon and Corpus Compilation, a Workshop at LREC 2004, Lisbon, Portugal. May 2004.

[Alemu et. al, 2003b]
Atelach Alemu, Lars Asker, and Gunnar Eriksson. "An Empirical Approach to building an Amharic treebank", (Poster presentation), in Proceedings of TLT 2003 - The Second Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, Växjö, Sweden. November, 2003.

[Alemu et. al, 2003a]
Atelach Alemu, Lars Asker, and Mesfin Getachew. "Natural Language Processing for Amharic: Overview and Suggestions for a Way Forward", in Proceedings of TALN 2003 Workshop on Natural Language Processing of Minority Languages and Small Languages, Batz-sur-Mer, France. June, 2003.

[Alemu and Asker, 2003]
Atelach Alemu and Lars Asker "Natural Language Processing with Few Computational Linguistic Resources: An Experiment with Automatic Sentence Parsing for Amharic Texts", in Proceedings of SCI 2003 - The 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, 2003.

Research Reports:

[Argaw et. al, 2007]
Atelach Alemu Argaw, Anette Hulth and Beata B. Megyesi. "General-Purpose Text Categorization Applied to the Medical Domain". DSV Research report - 2007-016. October 2007.

Atelach Alemu Argaw and Eva Forsbom. "Morphological Classification of Swedish Words using Memory-Based Learning". 2006.

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Last modified: October, 2008