Designing a Rule Based Disambiguator for Afan Oromo Words

This paper presents designing a rule based Afan Oromo Disambiguator. The ultimate aim of this work is to develop a model that identifies the senses of the words. Hence; a word may have multiple senses, the problem is to find out which particular sense is appropriate in a given context. To this end, a rule based approach was used which is designed manually a set of rules. Some ambiguous words were collected from the Oromo society and these words are the most frequently used in the society. Due to under the resource of the language, the work was used 15 natural ambiguous words for the sake of the test. The results of the work were shown that in Afan Oromo language, an ambiguous word have 2 to the n senses (where n unlimited senses; as the number of contexts increased).

Author(s): Workineh Tesema, Debela Tesfaye and Teferi Kibebew

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