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%T RBR: RAG-Based Open-Domain Question Answering Using a Ranking Approach to Document Retrieval
%A Naravajhula, Priyatam Sai
%A Ng, Vincent
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Bel, Núria
%Y van den Heuvel, Henk
%Y Ide, Nancy
%Y Krek, Simon
%Y Toral, Antonio
%S Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resource Association
%C Palma de Mallorca, Spain
%F naravajhula-ng-2026-rbr
%X Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a promising approach to ODQA. A RAG-based ODQA system is typically composed of two components: a retriever that retrieves the passages that are most relevant to a given query, and a generator that generates the answer to the query by combining the information from the retrieved passages. Existing retrievers typically identify the most relevant passages by computing the similarity between the query and each passage in a given collection. In other words, they do not compare which of two passages is more relevant to the given query. We hypothesize, however, that we can improve RAG-based ODQA systems by modeling the relationship among the passages to be retrieved, specifically by learning which passages are more relevant than the others to the given query. To do so, we propose a ranking-based approach to passage retrieval, where we first rank the candidate passages w.r.t. the query and subsequently refine the score associated with each of these passages using a Graph Attention Network. We evaluate our approach to ODQA, RBR (Ranking-Based Retrieval), on two commonly-used ODQA datasets, Natural Questions and TriviaQA. Experimental results show that RBR slightly outperforms PA-RAG, a state-of-the-art ODQA system, by 0.45 points and 1.01 points in Exact Match score on Natural Questions and TriviaQA, respectively.
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Markdown (Informal)

[RBR: RAG-Based Open-Domain Question Answering Using a Ranking Approach to Document Retrieval](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.60/) (Naravajhula & Ng, LREC 2026)

• RBR: RAG-Based Open-Domain Question Answering Using a Ranking Approach to Document Retrieval (Naravajhula & Ng, LREC 2026)

ACL

• Priyatam Sai Naravajhula and Vincent Ng. 2026. RBR: RAG-Based Open-Domain Question Answering Using a Ranking Approach to Document Retrieval. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 805–817, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.