Towards Data Science By angela shi

RAG Questions Need Parsing Too: Turn the User’s String Into Briefs for Retrieval and Generation

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Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #6a] - Why a user question deserves the same parsing as the document, and how it splits into a retrieval brief and a generation brief before either runs The post RAG Questions Need Parsing Too: Turn the User’s String Into Briefs for Retrieval and Generation appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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