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.
@article{arxiv.2503.18570,
title = {Dense Retrieval for Low Resource Languages -- the Case of Amharic Language},
author = {Tilahun Yeshambel and Moncef Garouani and Serge Molina and Josiane Mothe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.18570},
year = {2025}
}