Building Russian Benchmark for Evaluation of Information Retrieval Models

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Hauptverfasser: Kovalev, Grigory, Tikhomirov, Mikhail, Kozhevnikov, Evgeny, Kornilov, Max, Loukachevitch, Natalia
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author Kovalev, Grigory
Tikhomirov, Mikhail
Kozhevnikov, Evgeny
Kornilov, Max
Loukachevitch, Natalia
author_facet Kovalev, Grigory
Tikhomirov, Mikhail
Kozhevnikov, Evgeny
Kornilov, Max
Loukachevitch, Natalia
contents We introduce RusBEIR, a comprehensive benchmark designed for zero-shot evaluation of information retrieval (IR) models in the Russian language. Comprising 17 datasets from various domains, it integrates adapted, translated, and newly created datasets, enabling systematic comparison of lexical and neural models. Our study highlights the importance of preprocessing for lexical models in morphologically rich languages and confirms BM25 as a strong baseline for full-document retrieval. Neural models, such as mE5-large and BGE-M3, demonstrate superior performance on most datasets, but face challenges with long-document retrieval due to input size constraints. RusBEIR offers a unified, open-source framework that promotes research in Russian-language information retrieval.
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spellingShingle Building Russian Benchmark for Evaluation of Information Retrieval Models
Kovalev, Grigory
Tikhomirov, Mikhail
Kozhevnikov, Evgeny
Kornilov, Max
Loukachevitch, Natalia
Information Retrieval
Computation and Language
We introduce RusBEIR, a comprehensive benchmark designed for zero-shot evaluation of information retrieval (IR) models in the Russian language. Comprising 17 datasets from various domains, it integrates adapted, translated, and newly created datasets, enabling systematic comparison of lexical and neural models. Our study highlights the importance of preprocessing for lexical models in morphologically rich languages and confirms BM25 as a strong baseline for full-document retrieval. Neural models, such as mE5-large and BGE-M3, demonstrate superior performance on most datasets, but face challenges with long-document retrieval due to input size constraints. RusBEIR offers a unified, open-source framework that promotes research in Russian-language information retrieval.
title Building Russian Benchmark for Evaluation of Information Retrieval Models
topic Information Retrieval
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12879