A Comparative Evaluation of Embeddings and LLMs in a Greek Book Publisher Setting - The CUP Dataset
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Title:A Comparative Evaluation of Embeddings and LLMs in a Greek Book Publisher Setting - The CUP Dataset
Abstract:We present CUP, a Greek book retrieval benchmark consisting of 868 catalog records and 104 expert-annotated queries with graded relevance judgments. We evaluate sparse (BM25), dense (sentence-transformers), hybrid, and LLM-assisted retrieval methods in this book-search setting. Multilingual embeddings outperform Greek-specific models, while hybrid retrieval performs best overall. A query-level analysis shows that BM25 excels at named-entity queries, while dense and hybrid methods improve natural-language, noisy, cross-lingual, and concept queries. Field-aware prompting has model-specific effects, while LLM TOC summarization improves TOC-only retrieval and LLM post-filtering improves early-stage retrieval at a high cost. Overall, CUP enables real-world evaluation of Greek retrieval across lexical, semantic, noisy, and cross-lingual queries.
| Comments: | Preprint of a manuscript submitted to the 14th EETN Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN 2026) |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2607.21274 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2607.21274v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.21274
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From: Panagiotis Papadakos [view email][v1] Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:51:55 UTC (63 KB)
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