MTEB-NL
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Massive Text Embedding Benchmark for Dutch. Check https://github.com/nikolay-banar/mteb-nl-dev to evaluate your models. • 26 items • Updated • 4
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This dataset consists of Dutch legislative articles, with queries formulated based on subordinating conjunctions.
If you find our paper, benchmark or models helpful, please consider cite as follows:
@misc{banar2025mtebnle5nlembeddingbenchmark,
title={MTEB-NL and E5-NL: Embedding Benchmark and Models for Dutch},
author={Nikolay Banar and Ehsan Lotfi and Jens Van Nooten and Cristina Arhiliuc and Marija Kliocaite and Walter Daelemans},
year={2025},
eprint={2509.12340},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12340},
}
The data source:
@inproceedings{redelaar-etal-2024-attributed,
title = "Attributed Question Answering for Preconditions in the {D}utch Law",
author = "Redelaar, Felicia and
Van Drie, Romy and
Verberne, Suzan and
De Boer, Maaike",
editor = "Aletras, Nikolaos and
Chalkidis, Ilias and
Barrett, Leslie and
Goanț{\u{a}}, C{\u{a}}t{\u{a}}lina and
Preoțiuc-Pietro, Daniel and
Spanakis, Gerasimos",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2024",
month = nov,
year = "2024",
address = "Miami, FL, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.nllp-1.12/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.nllp-1.12",
pages = "154--165",
}