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This publication is about Amharic language question answer. The amount of available information is becoming very huge, especially with the Web proliferation. The problem faced by the user is not the lack of documents or information but is the lack of time to find a short and precise answer among the variety of available documents. Search engines offer a lot of links toward web pages, but are not able to provide an exact answer; instead return ranked documents based on relevance measure with the posed query from users. Thus, a new need is emerged: the possibility of obtaining a brief and concise answer. Providing a brief and concise answer is the main goal of Question Answering systems. The proposed Question Answering approach in this study deals with Amharic definition question by applying surface text pattern method. This method considers two main steps. First, it applies a pattern to discover a set of definition-related text patterns from the Amharic legal corpus. Then, using these patterns, it extracts a collection of concept-description pairs from a target document file, and applies the definition extraction to return answer to a given question.
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Wondwossen is a principal ICT expert in government organization. His area of research interests are Information Retrieval, Natural language processing, Knowledge-Based System, Pervasive Computing and Question Answering. Wondwossen holds B.Sc in Mathematics, B.Sc in Computer Science and M.Sc in Information Science.
Summary
Two people, separated by age and color but united in love, find themselves headed down an uncertain path -- a path the head rejects, but the heart demands be followed ...
Melanie Hitts is a charming African-American woman who is attractive, professional,and fiercely independent. Following a whirlwind romance, she accepts the proposal of successful and devoted Will Freedman, only to walk away several months later convinced that giving in to love means giving up her dreams. Melanie heads to Manhattan to heal her heart and embark on a career as an interior designer.
Soon after, she meets John Carlson, an older, white, internationally famous architect, who is dangling precariously at the end of his creative rope. Brought together as muse and mentor, a spark between them ignites and -- despite his twenty-three-year marriage -- John and Melanie come together.
Through her relationship with John, and with her former fiancé Will in hot pursuit,Melanie sets off on a path of discovery. But once she decides that she's ready to go from a Hitts to a Mrs. will the man she chooses be available?
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