# Amharic Sentiment Analysis
An Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (NLP) project for classifying Amharic text into sentiment categories using Machine Learning.
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## 📖 Overview
Amharic is one of the least represented languages in Natural Language Processing research. This project aims to develop a sentiment analysis system capable of predicting whether an Amharic sentence expresses a **positive**, **negative**, or **neutral** opinion.
The project demonstrates the complete machine learning pipeline, from data preprocessing to model deployment through a web interface.
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## ✨ Features
- Amharic text preprocessing
- Text cleaning and normalization
- Machine Learning sentiment classification
- Trained model saving and loading
- Web interface for sentiment prediction
- Simple and user-friendly design
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## 🏗️ Project Structure
```
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├── app.py
├── data/
├── frontend/
├── model/
├── saved_models/
├── static/
├── utils/
├── requirements.txt
└── README.md
```
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## 🛠 Technologies Used
- Python
- Flask
- Scikit-learn
- Pandas
- NumPy
- Joblib
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
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## ⚙️ Installation
Clone the repository
```bash
git clone
github.com
```
Navigate into the project
```bash
cd your-repository
```
Install dependencies
```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
Run the application
```bash
python app.py
```
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## 📊 Machine Learning Workflow
1. Data Collection
2. Data Cleaning
3. Text Preprocessing
4. Feature Extraction
5. Model Training
6. Model Evaluation
7. Prediction
8. Deployment
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## 🎯 Applications
- Social media opinion analysis
- Customer feedback analysis
- Product review classification
- Public opinion monitoring
- Research on Ethiopian languages
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## 📸 Screenshots
You can include screenshots here, for example:
- Home Page
- Prediction Result
- Model Accuracy
- User Interface
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## 🚀 Future Improvements
- Deep Learning models (LSTM, GRU, Transformers)
- BERT …