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