IR-RAG 2024
Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems 2024

Table of Contents

• Summary: There were 13 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 11 papers were accepted for this volume, 4 as regular papers and 7 as short papers.

• PersonaRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems with User-Centric Agents 1-11
  Saber Zerhoudi , Michael Granitzer
• RAGSys: Item-Cold-Start Recommender as RAG System 12-22
  Emile Contal , Garrin McGoldrick
• Multi-Aspect Reviewed-Item Retrieval via LLM Query Decomposition and Aspect Fusion 23-33
  Anton Korikov , George Saad , Ethan Baron , Mustafa Khan , Manav Shah , Scott Sanner
• Improving RAG Systems via Sentence Clustering and Reordering 34-43
  Marco Alessio , Guglielmo Faggioli , Nicola Ferro , Franco Maria Nardini , Raffaele Perego
• Chain-of-Thought to Enhance Document Retrieval in Certified Medical Chatbots 44-49
  Leonardo Sanna , Simone Magnolini , Patrizio Bellan , Saba Ghanbari Haez , Marina Segala , Monica Consolandi , Mauro Dragoni
• THoRR: Complex Table Retrieval and Refinement for RAG 50-55
  Kihun Kim , Mintae Kim , Hokyung Lee , Seongik Park , Youngsub Han , Byoung-Ki Jeon
• Towards Incorporating Personalized Context for Conversational Information Seeking 56-61
  Haitao Yu , Lingzhen Zheng , Kaiyu Yang , Sumio Fujita , Hideo Joho
• Beyond Benchmarks: Evaluating Embedding Model Similarity for Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems 62-70
  Laura Caspari , Kanishka Ghosh Dastidar , Saber Zerhoudi , Jelena Mitrovic , Michael Granitzer
• A Product-Aware Query Auto-Completion Framework for E-Commerce Search via Retrieval-Augmented Generation Method 71-76
  Fangzheng Sun , Tianqi Zheng , Aakash Kolekar , Rohit Patki , Hossein Khazaei , Xuan Guo , Ziheng Cai , David Liu , Ruirui Li , Yupin Huang , Dante Everaert , Hanqing Lu , Garima Patel Monica Cheng
• The Impact of Quantization on Retrieval-Augmented Generation: An Analysis of Small LLMs 77-81
  Mert Yazan , Suzan Verberne , Frederik Situmeang
• Enhancing Fusion-in-Decoder for Multi-Granularity Ranking 82-86
  Haeju Park , Kyungjae Lee , Sunghyun Park , Moontae Lee