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Johannes Reisinger

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Evaluating Chunking Strategies for Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Academic Texts

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems use the question-answering capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to access information outside their parameters. We evaluate if cluster-based semantic chunking improves retrieval and answer quality compared to fixed-size and recursive chunking evaluating on long, structured academic theses using the Retrieval Augmented Generation Assessment (RAGAs) framework. RAGAs based faithfulness shows limited reliability in this setup. Performance on fixed versus document specific questions varied substantially, likely related to the formatting of documents and preprocessing. Under the tested configuration, cluster-based chunking did not outperform simpler strategies.

cs.IR

Evaluating SAP Joule for Code Generation

SAP has released its own proprietary generative model SAP Joule, intended for various generative tasks, including serving as a code assistant for software engineers. While Joule is yet not focused on SAP-specific ABAP code generation, it can be used for other common languages, including Javascript. This paper compares SAP Joules Javascript coding capabilities against a total of 29 other models using the HumanEval-X Javascript benchmark. SAP Joule achieves a strict accuracy of 80.49% as the fifth best model in our evaluation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first comparative evaluation of SAP Joule code generation capabilities.

cs.SE

Towards Resolving Word Ambiguity with Word Embeddings

Ambiguity is ubiquitous in natural language. Resolving ambiguous meanings is especially important in information retrieval tasks. While word embeddings carry semantic information, they fail to handle ambiguity well. Transformer models have been shown to handle word ambiguity for complex queries, but they cannot be used to identify ambiguous words, e.g. for a 1-word query. Furthermore, training these models is costly in terms of time, hardware resources, and training data, prohibiting their use in specialized environments with sensitive data. Word embeddings can be trained using moderate hardware resources. This paper shows that applying DBSCAN clustering to the latent space can identify ambiguous words and evaluate their level of ambiguity. An automatic DBSCAN parameter selection leads to high-quality clusters, which are semantically coherent and correspond well to the perceived meanings of a given word.

cs.CL