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Main Authors: Bogdanova, Liliia, Sun, Shiran, Han, Lifeng, Lefort, Natalia Amat, Plaza-del-Arco, Flor Miriam
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01910
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author Bogdanova, Liliia
Sun, Shiran
Han, Lifeng
Lefort, Natalia Amat
Plaza-del-Arco, Flor Miriam
author_facet Bogdanova, Liliia
Sun, Shiran
Han, Lifeng
Lefort, Natalia Amat
Plaza-del-Arco, Flor Miriam
contents This system paper describes our participation in the SemEval-2025 Task-7 ``Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures''. We attended two subtasks, i.e., Track 1: Short Answer Questions (SAQ), and Track 2: Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQ). The methods we used are retrieval augmented generation (RAGs) with open-sourced smaller LLMs (OS-sLLMs). To better adapt to this shared task, we created our own culturally aware knowledge base (CulKBs) by extracting Wikipedia content using keyword lists we prepared. We extracted both culturally-aware wiki-text and country-specific wiki-summary. In addition to the local CulKBs, we also have one system integrating live online search output via DuckDuckGo. Towards better privacy and sustainability, we aimed to deploy smaller LLMs (sLLMs) that are open-sourced on the Ollama platform. We share the prompts we developed using refinement techniques and report the learning curve of such prompts. The tested languages are English, Spanish, and Chinese for both tracks. Our resources and codes are shared via https://github.com/aaronlifenghan/FLANS-2026
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spellingShingle FLANS at SemEval-2026 Task 7: RAG with Open-Sourced Smaller LLMs for Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures
Bogdanova, Liliia
Sun, Shiran
Han, Lifeng
Lefort, Natalia Amat
Plaza-del-Arco, Flor Miriam
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
This system paper describes our participation in the SemEval-2025 Task-7 ``Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures''. We attended two subtasks, i.e., Track 1: Short Answer Questions (SAQ), and Track 2: Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQ). The methods we used are retrieval augmented generation (RAGs) with open-sourced smaller LLMs (OS-sLLMs). To better adapt to this shared task, we created our own culturally aware knowledge base (CulKBs) by extracting Wikipedia content using keyword lists we prepared. We extracted both culturally-aware wiki-text and country-specific wiki-summary. In addition to the local CulKBs, we also have one system integrating live online search output via DuckDuckGo. Towards better privacy and sustainability, we aimed to deploy smaller LLMs (sLLMs) that are open-sourced on the Ollama platform. We share the prompts we developed using refinement techniques and report the learning curve of such prompts. The tested languages are English, Spanish, and Chinese for both tracks. Our resources and codes are shared via https://github.com/aaronlifenghan/FLANS-2026
title FLANS at SemEval-2026 Task 7: RAG with Open-Sourced Smaller LLMs for Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01910