Jul 2026
From manual retrieval to intelligent question answering: A four-stage evaluation of multilingual access in South African open scholarly repositories
The results show that English retrieval is already strong under BM25, whereas translated isiZulu queries benefit more clearly from multilingual semantic retrieval, especially at Top-10, and suggest that multilingual semantic retrieval can partly reduce translated-query barriers in open repository access.
Yamin Lu, Zhiqiang Huang, Tang Cheng
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