3 papers
cs.CL2025
MTEB-NL and E5-NL: Embedding Benchmark and Models for Dutch
Nikolay Banar, Ehsan Lotfi, Jens Van Nooten +3
Recently, embedding resources, including models, benchmarks, and datasets, have been widely released to support a variety of languages. However, the Dutch language remains underrep…
cs.CL2024
BEIR-NL: Zero-shot Information Retrieval Benchmark for the Dutch Language
Nikolay Banar, Ehsan Lotfi, Walter Daelemans
Zero-shot evaluation of information retrieval (IR) models is often performed using BEIR; a large and heterogeneous benchmark composed of multiple datasets, covering different retri…
cs.CL2024
Bilingual BSARD: Extending Statutory Article Retrieval to Dutch
Ehsan Lotfi, Nikolay Banar, Nerses Yuzbashyan +1
Statutory article retrieval plays a crucial role in making legal information more accessible to both laypeople and legal professionals. Multilingual countries like Belgium present…