--- title: "Nikolay Banar — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Nikolay Banar, University of Antwerp: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolay-banar/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolay-banar/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Nikolay Banar # Nikolay Banar Nikolay Banar has 4 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Legal AI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Ehsan Lotfi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehsan-lotfi/), [Walter Daelemans](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/walter-daelemans/), [Jens Van Nooten](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jens-van-nooten/). 4 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5004688187) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9517-5791) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5004688187) · [20 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004688187) · [214 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004688187&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolay-banar/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 12 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolay-banar/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10880](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/109/#star-10880) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Nikolay+Banar) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Nikolay+Banar) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Nikolay+Banar) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Nikolay+Banar) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Antwerp** Antwerp · Belgium 2018–2026 · 16 papersEmployment since 2018*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-antwerp/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Information Systems · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Social Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Political Science and International Relations · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/political-science-and-international-relations/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 6 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Legal AI · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [French · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/french/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolay-banar/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolay-banar/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Bilingual BSARD: Extending Statutory Article Retrieval to Dutch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lotfi-2025-bilingual-bsard-extending-statutory-article/)** *(2025 · 5 citations)* The paper addresses the lack of a Dutch benchmark for statutory article retrieval in multilingual jurisdictions such as Belgium. 2. **[MTEB-NL and E5-NL: Embedding Benchmark and Models for Dutch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/banar-2026-mteb-nl-e5-nl-embedding/)** *(2026 · 4 citations)* Dutch has only a small share of the data inside multilingual embedding resources, and it had no broad benchmark or strong dedicated embedding models. 3. **[BEIR-NL: Zero-shot Information Retrieval Benchmark for the Dutch Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lotfi-2025-beir-nl-zero-shot-information/)** *(2025 · 3 citations)* BEIR is the standard benchmark for zero-shot retrieval, but it contains only English, which leaves languages like Dutch with no comparable test suite. 4. **[bLLeQA: Benchmarking LLMs for Grounded Legal Question-Answering in French and Dutch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/banar-2026-blleqa-benchmarking-llms-grounded-legal/)** *(2026)* Legal question-answering tools could make the law easier to reach for ordinary people. However, evaluation data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in civil-law settings and smaller languages such as Dutch is rare. The authors extend the French LLeQA dataset into bLLeQA, a parallel French–Dutch benchmark built… ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ehsan Lotfi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehsan-lotfi/) ×4 - [Walter Daelemans](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/walter-daelemans/) ×4 - [Jens Van Nooten](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jens-van-nooten/) ×2 - [Marija Kliocaite](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marija-kliocaite/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bucc/): [BUCC 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bucc/2025/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - [Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/knowfm/): [Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/knowfm/2026/) - Proceedings of the 1st Regulatory NLP Workshop (RegNLP 2025) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 12 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolay-banar/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026