![]() The advanced experiment involved designing an Amharic and English closed domain foods grammar that generates a set of 32,460 unique plural and singular active voice sentences for each language. ![]() ![]() Our experiment on food domain had passed two levels of experimentation involving simple and a bit complex design, the first covered only sentences of simple active voice singular present tense forms, while in the second level we have introduced paradigms and case handling functions onto the food grammar that expanded the foods grammar translation system capacity to grow by threefold. The methodology applied in the experiment involves designing English and Amharic foods grammars, generating active voice sentences as a data source and evaluating the translation accuracy based on sample data from the data source. In this study, we have made simple and a bit complex closed domain Amharic multi-lingual translation experiment using a rule based approach in GF. The absence of Amharic language from the 72 languages in Google-Translateā¢, the world number one widely used translation system is one indicator to reveal a broad research has to be made on Amharic NLP. GF mainly targets quality rather than coverage, when applied to build closed domain languages multi-lingual translation applications, it works well and with better quality. GF is a grammar formalism which is based on constructive type theory (2). One alternative approach to multi-lingual translation systems is Grammar-based approach in Grammatical Framework (GF).
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