Two-layer retrieval augmented generation framework for low-resource medical question-answering: proof of concept using Reddit data
<|reference_start|>Two-layer retrieval augmented generation framework for low-resource medical question-answering: proof of concept using Reddit data: Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) provides the capability to constrain generative model outputs, and mitigate the possibility of hallucination, by providing relevant in-context text. The number of tokens a generative large language model (LLM) can incorporate as context is finite, thus limiting the volume of knowledge from which to generate an answer. We propose a two-layer RAG framework for query-focused answer generation and evaluate a proof-of-concept for this framework in the context of query-focused summary generation from social media forums, focusing on emerging drug-related information. The evaluations demonstrate the effectiveness of the two-layer framework in resource constrained settings to enable researchers in obtaining near real-time data from users.<|reference_end|>
@article{das2024two-layer,
    title={Two-layer retrieval augmented generation framework for low-resource
  medical question-answering: proof of concept using Reddit data},
    author={Sudeshna Das, Yao Ge, Yuting Guo, Swati Rajwal, JaMor Hairston, Jeanne
  Powell, Drew Walker, Snigdha Peddireddy, Sahithi Lakamana, Selen Bozkurt,
  Matthew Reyna, Reza Sameni, Yunyu Xiao, Sangmi Kim, Rasheeta Chandler,
  Natalie Hernandez, Danielle Mowery, Rachel Wightman, Jennifer Love, Anthony
  Spadaro, Jeanmarie Perrone, Abeed Sarker},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.19519},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2405.19519},
    primaryClass={cs.CL cs.AI}
}