Abstract The Middle Stone Age (MSA) is important to studies of human evolution because it witnessed the origin of modern Homo sapiens and its dispersal out of Africa and across the rest of the Old World. Obtaining accurate ages for these and other events that occurred d...

Abstract Ethiopia is rich in obsidian and prehistoric peoples were utilizing it to make artifacts since at least the Early Stone Age. The unique chemical compositions of obsidian are of considerable interest to archaeologists when obsidian artifacts are recovered at pre...

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is one of the most important technologies to support spoken communication in modern life. However, its development benefits from large speech corpus. The development of such a corpus is expensive and most of the human languages, includ...

Sentiments are very imperative to decide for both individuals and organizations. Due to the rapid growth of Awngi text on the web, there is no sufficiently available sentiment corpus to be used for research. We developed our corpus by collecting around one thousand five...

This paper discusses how the capital town of Eritrea, Asmara, is depicted alternately as Italian, Eritrean and Ethiopian thus showing the competing claims of ‘ownership’ that traverses its colonial...

<jats:p> This article focuses on the religious rituals associated with fishing and the processes that are in vogue in the fishermen community of Pulicat Lake. The role of the rituals in the contemporary socioeconomic context of the fishermen community is analyzed by app...

Part of speech (POS) tagging is an initial task for many natural language applications. POS tagging for Amharic is in its infancy. This study contributes towards the improvement of Amharic POS tagging by experimenting using Deep Learning and Conditional Random Fields (C...

This article is based on an eyewitness and firsthand information on the opening of Eritrea and Ethiopian border on 11 September 2018. From photographs, interviews, and observation in the towns of Senafe (Eritrea) and Zalambessa (Ethiopia), the authors intend to capture ...

Ethiopia is a developing African country with a population of more than 110 million. Visual impairment and blindness are among the public health problems in the country. The development of the eye health sector is promising although not adequate to fully address the exi...