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Remote Research InternApr 2026 – Jul 2026·Remote · Singapore

Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

Research conducted within the SenticNet Group·Under the guidance of: Zihao Huang
Research Internship Report TitleSource-Grounded Financial Question Answering Using Multimodal Knowledge Representations and Comparative RAG Architectures

Worked within the SenticNet Group under the guidance of Zihao Huang on source-grounded financial question answering, studying how different Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures retrieve and use financial evidence for complex reasoning.

The work combined multimodal financial information from earnings-call transcripts and investor presentations with structured knowledge representations and a controlled evaluation framework.

Research Question
“How can heterogeneous financial disclosures be represented, retrieved, and evaluated while preserving source-grounded evidence for complex financial reasoning?”

Research Focus

AREA 01

Comparative RAG Architectures

Implemented and compared multiple retrieval paradigms for source-grounded financial question answering, including dense vector, graph-enhanced, Knowledge Graph-based, and higher-order hypergraph-based approaches.

VectorRAGDense vector retrieval baseline
LightRAGDual-level graph-augmented retrieval
Deterministic KG-RAGSchema-constrained entity-relation graph retrieval
Financial HyperGraphRAGHigher-order multi-entity event hyperedges
AREA 02

Multimodal Financial Knowledge

Worked with complementary financial evidence from earnings-call transcripts and investor presentation slides, preserving links between source material, extracted information, and provenance.

AREA 03

Structured Retrieval & Evaluation

Developed a structured evaluation workflow to examine retrieval quality, contextual relevance, evidence sufficiency, answer quality, semantic agreement, and engineering behavior across the evaluated RAG architectures.

Event-Centric Knowledge Representation

Financial events were extracted and structured to support graph-based and higher-order representations, providing a common foundation for Knowledge Graph and Hypergraph-based retrieval. Financial events combine entities, financial metrics, temporal information, numerical values, and source evidence.

Research Direction Note: Investigated higher-order event representations as a research direction for complex financial reasoning, rather than a finalized production system.
Technical Areas
RAGFinancial QAVector RetrievalGraph-Enhanced RetrievalKnowledge GraphsMultimodal RetrievalSource GroundingFinancial Event ExtractionStructured Evaluation