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AtlasNLP: A Country-Aware Atlas of Dataset Representation in NLP

arXiv:2608.30107v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding which countries are represented in NLP datasets is essential for identifying gaps, targeting data collection, measuring progress, and informing AI policy. However, geographic metadata is very rarely available, and country-level representation is often hidden behind broad language-level claims. We introduce AtlasNLP, a country-aware atlas of over 13,000 NLP dataset records across normalized NLP task categories, tracking both the populations represented and where datasets are produced. AtlasNLP includes AtlasNLP-Gold, a human-curated reference set, and AtlasNLP-Core, an ACL-derived large-scale collection. Using this resource, we show that (1) dataset coverage is highly uneven across countries and tasks; (2) dataset production and representation are geographically asymmetric; and (3) language coverage does not imply geographic representation. These findings reveal blind spots in current dataset documentation practices and motivate more explicit geographic metadata for country-aware NLP evaluation.
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Topology of Reasoning: Retrieved Cell Complex-Augmented Generation for Textual Graph Question Answering

arXiv:2602.19240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances the reasoning ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) by dynamically integrating external knowledge, thereby mitigating hallucinations and strengthening contextual grounding for structured data such as graphs. Nevertheless, most existing RAG variants for textual graphs concentrate on low-dimensional structures -- treating nodes as entities (0-dimensional) and edges or paths as pairwise or sequential relations (1-dimensional), but overlook cycles, which are crucial for reasoning over relational loops. Such cycles often arise in questions requiring closed-loop inference about similar objects or relative positions. This limitation often results in incomplete contextual grounding and restricted reasoning capability. In this work, we propose Topology-enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (TopoRAG), a novel framework for textual graph question answering that effectively captures higher-dimensional topological and relational dependencies. Specifically, TopoRAG first lifts textual graphs into cellular complexes to model multi-dimensional topological structures. Leveraging these lifted representations, a topology-aware subcomplex retrieval mechanism is proposed to extract cellular complexes relevant to the input query, providing compact and informative topological context. Finally, a multi-dimensional topological reasoning mechanism operates over these complexes to propagate relational information and guide LLMs in performing structured, logic-aware inference. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that our method consistently surpasses existing baselines across diverse textual graph tasks.
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