A model and package for German ColBERT
Information Retrieval
2025-04-30 v1 Artificial Intelligence
Abstract
In this work, we introduce a German version for ColBERT, a late interaction multi-dense vector retrieval method, with a focus on RAG applications. We also present the main features of our package for ColBERT models, supporting both retrieval and fine-tuning workflows.
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@article{arxiv.2504.20083,
title = {A model and package for German ColBERT},
author = {Thuong Dang and Qiqi Chen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.20083},
year = {2025}
}
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