SLANG-GraphRAG: Multi-Layered Retrieval with Domain-Specific Knowledge for Low Resource Social Media Conversations (2026.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Standard NLP benchmarks often miss subtle, culturally-specific cues in social media . incorporating structured cultural knowledge into the retrieval process improves accuracy by up to 31% . |
| Approach: | They propose a retrieval-augmented framework that integrates a culture-specific slang knowledge graph into large language models via one-shot prompting. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms traditional and unstructured retrieval methods in slang-based models by 31% and 28%. |
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