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license: mit
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## Sentiment Analysis Data for the Amharic Language

**Dataset Description:**
This dataset contains a sentiment analysis dataset from Yimam et al. (2020).

**Data Structure:**
The data was used for the project on [improving word embeddings with graph knowledge for Low Resource Languages](https://github.com/pyRis/retrofitting-embeddings-lrls?tab=readme-ov-file).

**Citation:**
```bibtex
@InProceedings{yimametalcoling2020,
    title = "Exploring {A}mharic Sentiment Analysis from Social Media Texts: Building Annotation Tools and Classification Models",
    author = "Yimam, Seid Muhie  and
      Alemayehu, Hizkiel Mitiku  and
      Ayele, Abinew  and
      Biemann, Chris",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = dec,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
    pages = "1048--1060"
}
```