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Nikolay Banar

Nikolay Banar has 4 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on Evaluation & benchmarks, Legal AI, Information retrieval & search; often with Ehsan Lotfi, Walter Daelemans, Jens Van Nooten.

4 papers in our library · 2025–2026

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 6 · 20 works · 214 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 4 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 12 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10880

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 Affiliations

🎓University of AntwerpAntwerp · Belgium2018–2026 · 16 papersEmployment since 2018current

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 8The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 4 worksComputer Science · 4 worksArtificial Intelligence · 4 worksInformation Systems · 4 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 4 worksSocial Sciences · 2 worksPolitical Science and International Relations · 2 worksComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work

🧭 Topics 6Research subjects and languages the work is about.Information retrieval & search · 2 worksEvaluation & benchmarks · 2 worksLegal AI · 2 worksMultilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 workFrench · 1 workQuestion answering · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20262 papers20252 papers

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Bilingual BSARD: Extending Statutory Article Retrieval to Dutch (2025 · 5 citations)
    The paper addresses the lack of a Dutch benchmark for statutory article retrieval in multilingual jurisdictions such as Belgium.
  2. MTEB-NL and E5-NL: Embedding Benchmark and Models for Dutch (2026 · 4 citations)
    Dutch has only a small share of the data inside multilingual embedding resources, and it had no broad benchmark or strong dedicated embedding models.
  3. BEIR-NL: Zero-shot Information Retrieval Benchmark for the Dutch Language (2025 · 3 citations)
    BEIR is the standard benchmark for zero-shot retrieval, but it contains only English, which leaves languages like Dutch with no comparable test suite.
  4. bLLeQA: Benchmarking LLMs for Grounded Legal Question-Answering in French and Dutch (2026)
    Legal question-answering tools could make the law easier to reach for ordinary people. However, evaluation data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in civil-law settings and smaller languages such as Dutch is rare. The authors extend the French LLeQA dataset into bLLeQA, a parallel French–Dutch benchmark built…

 Co-authors here

4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

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Papers of our library cite their works 12 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 6 citing papers with a page here →.

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