@inproceedings{alemneh-etal-2026-multilingual, title = "The Multilingual Curse at the Retrieval Layer: Evidence from {A}mharic", author = "Alemneh, Yosef Worku and Mekonnen, Kidist Amde and Rijke, Maarten de", editor = "Huang, Kaiyu and Mo, Fengran and Chen, Pinzhen and Jiang, Meng", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models ({M}e{LLM} 2026)", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.mellm-1.19/", pages = "201--210", ISBN = "979-8-89176-430-9" }