KSE-Web: An Analysis of Hybrid Retrieval and LLM-Assisted Query Expansion for Low-Resource Khmer Semantic Search

arXiv:2608.21365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As a low-resource language, Khmer presents several retrieval challenges, including limited annotated data, ambiguous word boundaries, weak support in multilingual embedding models, and frequent mixed Khmer-English usage. This paper presents KSE-Web, an