Amharic-English bilingual web search engine
Mequannint Munye, Solomon Atnafu · 2012
As non-English languages are growing exponentially on the Web, the number of online non-English speakers who realizes the importance of finding information in different languages is enormously growing. However, the major general purpose search engines such as Google, Yahoo, etc have been lagging behind in providing indexes and search features to handle non-English languages. Amharic, which is the family of Semitic languages and the official working language of the federal government of Ethiopia, is one of these languages with a rapidly growing content on the Web. As a result, the need to develop bilingual search engine that handles the specific characteristics of the users' native language query (Amharic) and retrieves documents in both Amharic and English languages becomes more apparent.