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title = "{FLANS} at {S}em{E}val-2026 Task 7: {RAG} with Open-Sourced Smaller {LLM}s for Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures",
author = "Bogdanova, Liliia and
Sun, Shiran and
Han, Lifeng and
Amat-Lefort, Natalia and
Plaza-del-Arco, Flor Miriam",
editor = "Kochmar, Ekaterina and
Ghosh, Debanjan and
North, Kai and
Komachi, Mamoru",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th {I}nternational {W}orkshop on {S}emantic {E}valuation (2026)",
month = jul,
year = "2026",
address = "San Diego, California, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.119/",
pages = "869--878",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-414-9",
abstract = "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 {\textbackslash}url{\{}https://github.com/aaronlifenghan/FLANS-2026{\}}"
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%A Bogdanova, Liliia
%A Sun, Shiran
%A Han, Lifeng
%A Amat-Lefort, Natalia
%A Plaza-del-Arco, Flor Miriam
%Y Kochmar, Ekaterina
%Y Ghosh, Debanjan
%Y North, Kai
%Y Komachi, Mamoru
%S Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
%D 2026
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C San Diego, California, USA
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%F bogdanova-etal-2026-flans
%X 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 \textbackslashurl{https://github.com/aaronlifenghan/FLANS-2026}
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.119/
%P 869-878Markdown (Informal)
[FLANS at SemEval-2026 Task 7: RAG with Open-Sourced Smaller LLMs for Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures](https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.119/) (Bogdanova et al., SemEval 2026)
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