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 grounded on a ~30.6K-chunk Thai index by a hybrid dense-sparse retriever with cross-encoder reranking; a first-turn query classifier forces tool-based retrieval for entity lookups; a rule-based safety layer enforces medical scope and Thai emergency routing; and all eight languages are served zero-shot with translate-then-retrieve. We release the first Thai traditional-medicine/wellness retrieval benchmark (50 questions w...
| Authors | Pornthep Ukosaramig, Kobkrit Viriyayudhakorn |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 24 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 24 August 2026 |
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