A Case Against Implicit Standards: Homophone Normalization in Machine Translation for Languages that use the Ge'ez Script

Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Henok Biadglign Ademtew +4

Homophone normalization, where characters that have the same sound in a writing script are mapped to one character, is a pre-processing step applied in Amharic Natural Language Pro…