Paper ID: 2404.00657

Observations on Building RAG Systems for Technical Documents

Sumit Soman, Sujoy Roychowdhury

Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for technical documents creates challenges as embeddings do not often capture domain information. We review prior art for important factors affecting RAG and perform experiments to highlight best practices and potential challenges to build RAG systems for technical documents.

Submitted: Mar 31, 2024