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

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Tilahun Yeshambel, Moncef Garouani, Serge Molina, Josiane Mothe

Published: 2025, Last Modified: 14 Feb 2026CoRR 2025EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: 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.