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Andreas Foltyn

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1since 2021 · last 2025
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Question answering and dialogue systems · 50% Language models and text generation · 50%

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Natural language and speech › Question answering and dialogue systems › interactive question answering
conversational question answering
0.912025
Evidence Contextualization and Counterfactual Attribution for Conversational QA over Heterogeneous Data with RAG Systems · WSDM 2025
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
retrieval-augmented generation
0.912025
Evidence Contextualization and Counterfactual Attribution for Conversational QA over Heterogeneous Data with RAG Systems · WSDM 2025

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large language model · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Evidence Contextualization and Counterfactual Attribution for Conversational QA over Heterogeneous Data with RAG Systems
abstract
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) works as a backbone for interacting with an enterprise's own data via Conversational Question Answering (ConvQA).In a RAG system, a retriever fetches passages from a collection in response to a question, which are then included in the prompt of a large language model (LLM) for generating a natural language (NL) answer.However, several RAG systems today suffer from two shortcomings: (i) retrieved passages usually contain their raw text and lack appropriate document context, negatively impacting both retrieval and answering quality; and (ii) attribution strategies that explain answer generation typically rely only on similarity between the answer and the retrieved passages, thereby only generating plausible but not causal explanations.In this work, we demonstrate RAGonite, a RAG system that remedies the above concerns by: (i) contextualizing evidence with source metadata and surrounding text; and (ii) computing counterfactual attribution, a causal explanation approach where the contribution of an evidence to an answer is determined by the similarity of the original response to the answer obtained by removing that evidence.To evaluate our proposals, we release a new benchmark ConfQuestions: it has 300 hand-created conversational questions, each in English and German, coupled with ground truth URLs, completed questions, and answers from 215 public Confluence pages.These documents are typical of enterprise wiki spaces with heterogeneous elements.Experiments with RAGonite on ConfQuestions show the viability of our ideas: contextualization improves RAG performance, and counterfactual explanations outperform standard attribution.
Rishiraj Saha Roy, Joel Schlotthauer, Chris Hinze, Andreas Foltyn, Luzian Hahn, Fabian Küch
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