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Enhancing Mental Health Counseling Support in Bangladesh using Culturally-Grounded Knowledge
Apr 16, 2026Md Arid Hasan, Azhagu Meena SP, Aditya Khan +6Counseling Mental Health
University of Toronto, Canada · mPower Social Enterprises Ltd, Bangladesh · National Institute of Mental Health, Bangladesh +2
Benchmarking Bengali Dialectal Bias: A Multi-Stage Framework Integrating RAG-Based Translation and Human-Augmented RLAIF
Mar 22, 2026K. M. Jubair Sami, Dipto Sumit, Ariyan Hossain +1Dialects Large Language Model Bias
Department of Computer Science and Engineering BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
When Audio Separation Hurts Zero-Shot ASR: Evaluating SAM-Audio with Whisper on Bengali and English Speech
Mar 5, 2026Akif Islam, Raufun Nahar, Md. Ekramul HamidAutomatic Speech Recognition Speech Separation
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh · Anan National College of Technology, Tokushima, Japan
MixSarc: A Bangla-English Code-Mixed Corpus for Implicit Meaning Identification
Feb 25, 2026Kazi Samin Yasar Alam, Md Tanbir Chowdhury, Tamim Ahmed +2Bangla Humor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Islamic University of Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh · Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
destroR: A Benchmark and Adversarial-Training Defense for Bangla Transfer Models under Meaning-Preserving Attacks
Nov 13, 2025Saadat Rafid Ahmed, Rubayet Shareen, Radoan Sharkar +3Bangla Sentiment
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, BRAC University
BenSParX: A Robust Explainable Machine Learning Framework for Parkinson's Disease Detection from Bengali Conversational Speech
May 18, 2025Riad Hossain, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Arat Ibne Golam Mowla +2Dysarthric Speech Bangla
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chittagong, 4349, Bangladesh · School of Computing, Mathematics and Engineering, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia · School of Science, Engineering and Technology, East Delta University, Chittagong, 4209, Bangladesh +1

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Enhancing Mental Health Counseling Support in Bangladesh using Culturally-Grounded Knowledge

Md Arid Hasan, Azhagu Meena SP, Aditya Khan, Abu Md Akteruzzaman Bhuiyan+5

University of Toronto, Canada · mPower Social Enterprises Ltd, Bangladesh · National Institute of Mental Health, Bangladesh+2

Counseling Mental Health Cultural Evolution Bangla Relevance

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Large language models (LLMs) show promise in generating supportive responses for mental health and counseling applications. However, their responses often lack cultural sensitivity, contextual grounding, and clinically appropriate guidance. This work addresses the gap of how to systematically incorporate domain-specific, clinically validated knowledge into LLMs to improve counseling quality. We utilize and compare two approaches, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and a knowledge graph (KG)-based method, designed to support para-counselors. Our KG is constructed manually and clinically validated, capturing causal relationships between stressors, interventions, and outcomes, with contributions from multidisciplinary people. We evaluated multiple LLMs in both settings using BERTScore F1 and SBERT cosine similarity, as well as human evaluation across five metrics, which is designed to directly measure the effectiveness of counseling beyond similarity at the surface level. The results show that KG-based approaches consistently improve contextual relevance, clinical appropriateness, and practical usability compared to RAG alone, demonstrating that structured, expert-validated knowledge plays a critical role in addressing LLMs limitations in counseling tasks.

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Enhancing Mental Health Counseling Support in Bangladesh using Culturally-Grounded Knowledge

Benchmarking Bengali Dialectal Bias: A Multi-Stage Framework Integrating RAG-Based Translation and Human-Augmented RLAIF

When Audio Separation Hurts Zero-Shot ASR: Evaluating SAM-Audio with Whisper on Bengali and English Speech

MixSarc: A Bangla-English Code-Mixed Corpus for Implicit Meaning Identification

destroR: A Benchmark and Adversarial-Training Defense for Bangla Transfer Models under Meaning-Preserving Attacks

BenSParX: A Robust Explainable Machine Learning Framework for Parkinson's Disease Detection from Bengali Conversational Speech