{"slug": "nepkanun-a-rag-based-nepali-legal-assistant", "title": "NepKANUN: A RAG-Based Nepali Legal Assistant", "summary": "Researchers introduced NepKANUN, a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) legal assistant built on a fine-tuned large language model to answer natural language legal inquiries in Nepal, according to an arXiv paper (2609.15999v1). Trained on a custom dataset of high-quality question-answer pairs, NepKANUN scored BERTScore F1 of 0.82 on simple, 0.77 on moderate, and 0.71 on complex questions, with usability further confirmed by expert reviews. The method aims to democratize access to legal knowledge in Nepal by combining generation and retrieval over customized legal data.", "body_md": "arXiv:2609.15999v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: Accessing legal information in Nepal is difficult due to complex terminology, limited resources, and misinformation. We introduce an AI-powered legal assistant that is tailored for Nepali legal texts and is built on a fine-tuned large language model. The technology provides precise, streamlined answers to natural language legal inquiries when integrated into a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) framework. It was trained using a custom dataset of high-quality question-answer pairs, and according to BERTScore, it obtained strong F1 scores of 0.82 (simple), 0.77 (moderate), and 0.71 (complex). Its usability is further confirmed by expert reviews. Our method shows how merging generation and retrieval can effectively democratize access to legal knowledge in Nepal by focusing on customized legal data and incorporating RAG.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nepkanun-a-rag-based-nepali-legal-assistant", "canonical_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15999", "published_at": "2026-09-16 04:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-16 04:05:59.102641+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "natural-language-processing", "ai-research", "ai-products"], "entities": ["NepKANUN", "Nepal", "BERTScore", "arXiv"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nepkanun-a-rag-based-nepali-legal-assistant", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nepkanun-a-rag-based-nepali-legal-assistant.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nepkanun-a-rag-based-nepali-legal-assistant.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nepkanun-a-rag-based-nepali-legal-assistant.jsonld"}}