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IR-RAG 2025
Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems 2025

Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems (IR-RAG 2025)
co-located with the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval ( SIGIR 2025 )

Padova, Italy, July 17, 2025 .

Edited by

Negar Arabzadeh *
Ziheng Chen
Fabio Petroni *
Federico Siciliano
Fabrizio Silvestri
Giovanni Trappolini

* University of Waterloo , Waterloo, ON, Canada
* Walmart Inc. , Bentonville, AR, United States
*** Samaya AI , London, United Kingdom
**** Sapienza University of Rome , Rome, Italy

Table of Contents

Summary: There were 12 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 6 papers were accepted for this volume, 3 as regular papers and 3 as short papers.

Walk&Retrieve: Simple Yet Effective Zero-Shot Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Knowledge Graph Walks 1-11
Martin Böckling , Heiko Paulheim , Andreea Iana
HybridRAG: A Practical LLM-based Chatbot Framework based on Pre-Generated Q&A over Raw Unstructured Documents 12-21
Sungmoon Kim , Hyuna Jeon , Dahye Kim , Mingyu Kim , Dong-Kyu Chae , Jiwoong Kim
Am I on the Right Track? What Can Predicted Query Performance Tell Us about the Search Behaviour of Agentic RAG 22-41
Fangzheng Tian , Jinyuan Fang , Debasis Ganguly , Zaiqiao Meng , Craig Macdonald
Re-ranking the Context for Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation 42-48
Matin Mortaheb , Mohammad A. Khojastepour , Srimat T. Chakradhar , Sennur Ulukus
TComQA: Extracting Temporal Commonsense from Text 49-57
Lekshmi R Nair , Arun Sankar , Koninika Pal
Automated Evaluation of RAG Systems for Customer Support in Automotive Applications 58-61
Luis Alexander Wagner , Gayane Sedrakyan , Jos van Hillegersberg

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