19–23 Oct 2026
Lanthieri Mansion, Vipava
Europe/Ljubljana timezone

From Retrieval to Trustworthy Answers: Practical Lessons from Building RAG Systems for Scientific Evidence

21 Oct 2026, 12:00
15m
Lanthieri Mansion, Vipava

Lanthieri Mansion, Vipava

Glavni trg 8, Vipava, SI 5271, Slovenia

Speaker

Yun Wang (University of Ljubljana)

Description

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is becoming an important tool for scientific literature search and evidence synthesis. Here I introduce the core ideas behind RAG through practical examples from the BioASQ and TREC-RAG benchmarks. The presentation covers evidence retrieval, reranking, grounded answer generation, and evaluation, together with common pitfalls and practical lessons learned from developing competitive systems. The presentation is intended for researchers and fellows from different backgrounds who are interested in using RAG tools in scientific research and understanding its current capabilities and limitations.

Author

Yun Wang (University of Ljubljana)

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