Meti-Adane/GSOC-24_DBpedia_Amharic_Chapter

# GSOC-24 # Project Summary This project endeavors to create an Amharic DBpedia Chapter, aiming to be the first sub-Saharan African language to join the internationalization efforts of DBpedia. Our goal is to extend the existing extractor framework for Amharic to allow knowledge graph extraction from Amharic Wikipedia. We will make the extracted knowledge graph queryable and available to end users via a web page . # Key Achievements and Deliverables - Extended the DBpedia framework to support Amharic. - View Change list - Added wiki template to DBepdia ontology class and properties mapping, achieving a 35% overall mapping completion, up from the initial 0%. - View Amharic mappings - Added data parsers to handle linguistic nuances specific to Amharic. - Ethiopian calendar date handler - Duration + Datatypes for Amharic - Extracted triples from Wikipedia dumps using configured extractors, resulting in a total of 8.2 million triples and 300k distinct triples. These triples were uploaded to triple stores and are now accessible for querying by end users via Virtuoso and QLever endpoints. - - Virtuoso sparql endpoint - Qlever endpoint - Created and deployed a website for Amharic DBpedia, making the extracted triples accessible to users. # Project Description DBpedia is a collaborative initiative focused on extracting structured information from Wikipedia and presenting it as Linked Open Data. While semantic web resourceful languages like English and German have dedicated DBpedia chapters, there is a need for more representation of low-resourced languages like Amharic. Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia and the second most widely spoken Semitic language globally, following Arabic, with approximately 22 Million speakers at the time of writing. However, it is one such language that lacks its own DBpedia chapter. The primary goal of this project is to contribute to DBpedia internationalization efforts and create an Amharic DBpedia Chapter to allow knowledge …