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---
dataset_info:
features:
- name: query_id
dtype: string
- name: passage_id
dtype: string
- name: query
dtype: string
- name: passage
dtype: string
- name: category
dtype: string
- name: link
dtype: string
- name: negative_passages
list:
- name: cosine_sim_score
dtype: float32
- name: passage
dtype: string
- name: passage_id
dtype: string
splits:
- name: train
num_bytes: 2656983468
num_examples: 44708
download_size: 1229732613
dataset_size: 2656983468
configs:
- config_name: default
data_files:
- split: train
path: data/train-*
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
- text-ranking
- text-retrieval
language:
- am
tags:
- information-retrieval
- amharic
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
---
# Amharic Passage Retrieval Dataset with Negatives
This dataset is a version of [amharic-news-category-classification](https://huggingface.co/datasets/rasyosef/amharic-news-category-classification) that has been filtered, deduplicated, and formatted for passage retrieval.
This dataset can be used directly with Sentence Transformers to train Amharic Text embedding and Reranking models.
#### Hard Negatives:
The `negative_passages` column contains hard negative passages that were mined using the [roberta-amharic-text-embedding-medium](https://huggingface.co/rasyosef/roberta-amharic-text-embedding-medium) embedding model.
### Source Datasets:
- https://huggingface.co/datasets/rasyosef/amharic-news-category-classification
### Models and Code
The following Text Embedding and ColBERT late-interaction retrieval models were trained using this dataset as part of our **ACL 2025 Findings** paper: ***Optimized Text Embedding Models and Benchmarks for Amharic Passage Retrieval***.
- Models Collection: https://huggingface.co/collections/rasyosef/amharic-text-embedding-models-679cb55eae1d498e3ac5bdc5
- Code: https://github.com/kidist-amde/amharic-ir-benchmarks
- Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19356
## Citation
```
@inproceedings{mekonnen2025amharic,
title={Optimized Text Embedding Models and Benchmarks for Amharic Passage Retrieval},
author={Kidist Amde Mekonnen, Yosef Worku Alemneh, Maarten de Rijke },
booktitle={Findings of ACL},
year={2025}
}
```
```
@misc{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2103.05639,
doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2103.05639},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.05639},
author = {Azime, Israel Abebe and Mohammed, Nebil},
keywords = {Computation and Language (cs.CL), Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences},
title = {An Amharic News Text classification Dataset},
publisher = {arXiv},
year = {2021},
copyright = {arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license}
}
``` |