Dense Retrieval for Low Resource Languages -- the Case of Amharic Language

This paper reports some difficulties and some results when using dense retrievers on Amharic, one of the low-resource languages spoken by 120 millions populations. The efforts put and difficulties faced by University Addis Ababa toward Amharic Information Retrieval will be developed during the presentation.

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2025-03-24
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Dense Retrieval for Low Resource Languages -- the Case of Amharic Language

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This paper reports some difficulties and some results when using dense retrievers on Amharic, one of the low-resource languages spoken by 120 millions populations. The efforts put and difficulties faced by University Addis Ababa toward Amharic Information Retrieval will be developed during the presentation.

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