GE’EZ NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION USING DEEP LEARNING

HABTAMU, DEREBE DERSO

dc.contributor.author	HABTAMU, DEREBE DERSO
dc.date.accessioned	2025-02-14T11:34:42Z
dc.date.available	2025-02-14T11:34:42Z
dc.date.issued	2024-08
dc.identifier.uri	http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/16441
dc.description.abstract	Geez language is an ancient Semitic language predominantly used for religious texts in Ethiopia and Eritrea with unique semantical, syntactical, and morphological characteristics. This study explores the development of a Named Entity Recognition model for the Geez language. By applying deep learning algorithms, the study addresses the lack of NER solutions for Geez language. The research methodology includes dataset collection from Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church sources and corpus preparation for named entity recognition. A dataset of 5,685 sentences was collected having a total of 27,154 words. From these, 10,326 unique words were identified. The dataset is then labeled with 27 tag sets. The study then undergoes text preprocessing, training, and testing. Hyperparameter tuning using the DEAP framework is conducted to optimize model performance. Two experiments were applied to the two deep learning algorithms. These experiments are named entity recognition without and with part-of-speech information. The experiments showed that LSTM without POS achieved 94.83%, BiLSTM without POS achieved 95.24%, LSTM with POS scored 96.72%, and BiLSTM with POS achieved a 97.14% accuracy level. Experimental results provide insights to the performance of Geez NER. The study contributes to the advancement of natural language processing in Geez. Keywords: Ge’ez Language, Ge’ez Named Entity Recognition, Deep Learning, LSTM, BiLSTM.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Computer Science	en_US
dc.title	GE’EZ NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION USING DEEP LEARNING	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US