There have been some works on POS tagging in Amharic (Gamback B., 2012;Martha, Solomon, and Besacier, 2011;Binyam, 2010;Gambäck, Olsson, Argaw, and Asker, 2009;Sisay, 2005).
the work of Demeke and Getachew (2006), known as the Walta Information Center corpus (WIC), has received much attention among Amharic NLP researchers and has been used for different applications.