🧑‍🔬 Yosef Worku Alemneh

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

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

📅 Works by year

2020s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Optimized Text Embedding Models and Benchmarks for Amharic Passage Retrieval (2025 · 4 citations)
   Amharic is a low-resource Semitic language with root-and-pattern morphology and the Ge'ez abugida script. Neither lexical matching nor large multilingual embedders handle it well, and the authors trace much of the trouble to poor subword segmentation. They fine-tune existing Amharic BERT and RoBERTa checkpoints…
2. The Multilingual Curse at the Retrieval Layer: Evidence from Amharic (2026)
   The paper asks whether multilingual retrievers that score well zero-shot actually transfer to an underrepresented, morphologically rich language.

🤝 Co-authors here

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

• Kidist Amde Mekonnen ×2
• Maarten de Rijke ×2

Venues

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

• Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025
• Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models: Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models 2026

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 2 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 2 citing papers with a page here →.

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