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license: cc-by-nc-nd-4.0
task_categories:
- text-retrieval
language:
- km
tags:
- khmer
- retrieval
- low-resource
---

# KSE-Web3K

This dataset is associated with the paper [KSE-Web: An Analysis of Hybrid Retrieval and LLM-Assisted Query Expansion for Low-Resource Khmer Semantic Search](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.21365).

It contains 3,000 cleaned full-text Khmer web documents, 300 manually reviewed Khmer search queries, and silver relevance labels. The dataset is designed for sparse, dense, hybrid, and LLM-assisted retrieval experiments.

- **Paper:** [KSE-Web paper](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.21365)
- **Code:** [GitHub repository](https://github.com/back-kh/Khmer-Semantic-Search)

The repository provides the following files:
- `documents.csv` / `documents.jsonl` – document collection (titles, cleaned text, categories, sources, URLs)
- `queries.csv` – user-style Khmer search queries
- `qrels_silver_v2.csv` – silver relevance judgments with partial human verification

For usage instructions and evaluation scripts, please refer to the [GitHub README](https://github.com/back-kh/Khmer-Semantic-Search).