2 papers
cs.IR2026
The Multilingual Curse at the Retrieval Layer: Evidence from Amharic
Yosef Worku Alemneh, Kidist Amde Mekonnen, Maarten de Rijke
Multilingual retrieval increasingly underpins cross-lingual question answering and retrieval-augmented generation. Strong zero-shot scores on multilingual benchmarks are often take…
cs.IR2025
Optimized Text Embedding Models and Benchmarks for Amharic Passage Retrieval
Kidist Amde Mekonnen, Yosef Worku Alemneh, Maarten de Rijke
Neural retrieval methods using transformer-based pre-trained language models have advanced multilingual and cross-lingual retrieval. However, their effectiveness for low-resource,…