Geunhye Kim
Author directory2026
From National Curricula to Cultural Awareness: Constructing Open-Ended Culture-Specific Question Answering Dataset
Haneul Yoo | Won Ik Cho | Geunhye Kim | Ji Yoon Han
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Haneul Yoo | Won Ik Cho | Geunhye Kim | Ji Yoon Han
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance on many tasks, but their progress remains uneven across languages and cultures, often reflecting values latent in English-centric training data. To enable practical cultural alignment, we propose a scalable approach that leverages national social studies curricula as a foundation for culture-aware supervision. We introduce CuCu, an automated multi-agent LLM framework that transforms national textbook curricula into open-ended, culture-specific question–answer pairs for supervised fine-tuning (SFT). Applying CuCu to the Korean national social studies curriculum, we construct KCaQA, comprising 34.1k open-ended QA pairs. Our analyses and training experiments suggest that KCaQA covers culture-specific topics and produces responses grounded in local sociocultural contexts.