Building Foundations for Information Retrieval in Extremely Low-Resource Ethnic Languages: Evidence from Tanzania.

@inproceedings{telemala-2026-building, author = {Joseph P. Telemala and Zulong Chen and Hong Wen and Onesmo S. Nyinondi and Wema L. Msigwa and Zhitao Wang and Neema Nicodemus Lyimo and Zhaohan Zhang and Joseph P. Telemala and Zulong Chen and Baraka William Nyamtiga and Hong Wen and Onesmo S. Nyinondi and Farian Severine Ishengoma and Wema L. Msigwa and Zhitao Wang}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Building Foundations for Information Retrieval in Extremely Low-Resource Ethnic Languages: Evidence from Tanzania}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {5304--5307}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808525}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808525} }