| Vol-3784 urn:nbn:de:0074-3784-1 Copyright © 2024 for the individual papers by the papers' authors. Copyright © 2024 for the volume as a collection by its editors. This volume and its papers are published under the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

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

### Proceedings of the Workshop Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems (IR-RAG 2024)
co-located with the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024)

### Washington DC, USA, 07 18, 2024.

Edited by

### Fabio Petroni *
Federico Siciliano **
Fabrizio Silvestri **
Giovanni Trappolini **

* Samaya AI, London, United Kingdom
** Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

## 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

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