EthioNLP

Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking shape, and natural language processing (NLP) is its core component. Researchers all over the world are working on NLP for Ethiopian languages, but they don't talk to each other in a formal way. At COLING 2018, Santa Fe, USA, three researchers from Addis Ababa University (Binyam), University of Hamburg (Seid), and University of Trento (Surafel) took the initiative to create a formal NLP society for Ethiopian language NLP research.

General goals

• Bringing the NLP community working on Ethiopian languages together.
• In the long run, organizing workshops, conferences, and seminars on relevant topics that are related to Ethiopian languages.
• Serving as a platform to coordinate and manage research papers and resources that are focused on Ethiopian languages.
• Supporting, mentoring, and collaborating with university students on NLP research areas
• Setting goals, priorities, and tracks in Ethiopian language NLP