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TSWAP: Thai wellness advisor uses RAG for multilingual support

Researchers have developed TSWAP, a multilingual conversational wellness advisor that utilizes retrieval-augmented generation to provide information on Thai traditional medicine and certified wellness providers. The system employs an open-weight LLM, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, enhanced by a hybrid dense-sparse retriever with cross-encoder reranking. A query classifier directs entity lookups, and a safety layer ensures adherence to medical scope and Thai emergency protocols. The project also released a benchmark for Thai traditional medicine retrieval, production QA logs, and findings on the impact of quantization on Thai language and the necessity of forced retrieval for reliable grounding. AI

IMPACT This system demonstrates effective multilingual RAG for specialized domains, potentially improving access to health information in various languages.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a research paper detailing a new AI system and its evaluation. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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TSWAP: Thai wellness advisor uses RAG for multilingual support

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Kobkrit Viriyayudhakorn ·

    TSWAP: A Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Thai Wellness Advisor

    We present TSWAP, a deployed eight-language conversational wellness advisor grounded, via retrieval-augmented generation, in a verified knowledge base of Thai traditional medicine and certified wellness providers. An unmodified open-weight LLM (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on vLLM) is grounde…