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    Personalized Health Insurance Recommendation with Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Study of Lexical, Dense, and Hybrid Retrieval
    (2026-06-16)
    Rujireksareekul, Phakon
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    Netisopakul, Ponrudee
    Health insurance information in Thailand is available on many company websites and is presented in different formats, making it difficult for users to compare coverage, conditions, and benefits. In this study, we propose a personalized health insurance recommendation system using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). The system retrieves information using three methods: BM25, dense retrieval, and hybrid retrieval with Reciprocal Rank Fusion. The language model analyzes the retrieved insurance plans and recommends suitable options based on the user query. Experimental results show that dense retrieval provides the best overall performance, while hybrid retrieval performs better than lexical search. The proposed RAG system also maintains practical response latency, making it suitable for interactive applications.
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    Virtue-Based Thai Folktale Recommendation with Ensemble LLMs
    (2026-06-16)
    Daeng-Am, Wassana
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    Netisopakul, Ponrudee
    Moral learning plays an important role in early childhood education, yet teachers often spend considerable time identifying moral lessons in stories and deciding which virtues they represent. This study investigates whether a multi-model ensemble strategy can produce more teacher-aligned moral extractions from Thai folktales than a single-LLM baseline. We propose an LLM-based ensemble framework that extracts concise moral statements and classifies them into eight core virtues promoted by the Thai Ministry of Education: diligence, frugality, honesty, discipline, politeness, cleanliness, unity, and kindness. The framework combines outputs from Google Gemini 2.0 Flash, OpenAI GPT-4o-mini, and Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet through a semantic consensus mechanism using BGE-M3 embeddings and majority voting. The system is evaluated on a corpus of 200 Thai folktales annotated by three experienced early childhood educators using multi-label metrics including Hamming Loss, Jaccard Similarity, and Exact Match. The results show that the ensemble approach achieves a Hamming Loss of 0.208, Jaccard Similarity of 0.564, and Exact Match of 0.175, consistently outperforming all single-model baselines. These findings suggest that consensus-driven ensemble inference provides a more robust and teacher-aligned foundation for automated moral education tools in Thai NLP.
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    Machine Learning Models for Multi-Horizon Classification of Bitcoin Future Price Movements
    (2026-06-16)
    Boonpai, Sirawat
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    Netisopakul, Ponrudee
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    This study presents a comprehensive framework for multi-horizon classification of Bitcoin futures price movements using machine learning. Five models of Logistic Regression, Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost were systematically evaluated across three timeframes (4h, 12h, 1d) and four classification schemes: binary (up/down) and multi-class (up/down/stable) with thresholds of 0.5%, 1.0%, and 1.5%, totaling 60 distinct experimental configurations. Rather than pursuing a strong predictive performance, this study prioritizes a rigorous comparative analysis across multiple dimensions to identify which combinations of model, timeframe, and classification scheme are most effective for Bitcoin futures. The results demonstrate that binary classification achieves the best predictive performance, with shorter timeframes yielding significantly better results, confirming the effectiveness of technical indicators in capturing the rapid price dynamics of Bitcoin futures. Notably, CatBoost achieved the highest F1-score for binary classification, while Random Forest proved the most robust model across diverse configurations. Feature importance analysis revealed that momentum-based indicators are the dominant predictors of price direction, while volatility features play a critical role in distinguishing sideways movements from directional ones in multi-class settings. Furthermore, the study demonstrates that narrower classification thresholds (0.5%) introduce noisier class boundaries and degrade performance, whereas wider thresholds (1.0%-1.5%) yield more stable results. These findings provide actionable guidelines for algorithmic trading in Bitcoin futures and establish a reproducible benchmark for future research.
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    A Comparative Study of Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents for Gold Trading with Technical Indicators and LLM-Filtered News Sentiment
    (2026-06-16)
    Thanasarn, Thanapong
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    Netisopakul, Ponrudee
    Integrating macroeconomic news into deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for daily gold (XAU/USD) trading remains challenging. This study implements a natural language processing pipeline using majority voting from three large language models (Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, Qwen3-8B, and Gemma-3-12B-it) to filter articles from The New York Times from 2010 to 2024, yielding 592 relevant articles that are subsequently assigned sentiment scores using FinBERT. We evaluate A2C, PPO, and SAC agents in a FinRL and Stable-Baselines3 framework using a four-fold walk-forward expanding-window protocol and Optuna hyperparameter tuning. The models are compared under two feature settings: (1) six technical indicators only and (2) technical indicators combined with sentiment features. Results show that incorporating LLM-filtered sentiment can modestly improve trading performance for some agents. PPO with sentiment achieves the best average cumulative return (10.05%) and Sharpe ratio (0.74), compared with its indicator-only version (9.80%, 0.72), and slightly outperforms the Buy-and-Hold (B&H) baseline (9.58%, 0.71). A2C also improves with sentiment (9.50% to 9.90%), while SAC shows no improvement in this setting. These findings suggest that LLM-filtered sentiment provides a modest benefit for some DRL agents in daily gold trading in our experiments.