Podcasts Technology Austrian Artificial Intelligence Podcast 55. Veronika Vishnevskaia - Ontec - Building RAG based Question-Answering Systems

55. Veronika Vishnevskaia - Ontec - Building RAG based Question-Answering Systems

Published: April 15, 2024, 7:55 a.m.

## Summary

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Today on the show I am talking to Veronika Vishnevskaia. Solution Architect at ONTEC where she specialises in building RAG based Question-Answering systems.

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Veronika will provide a deep dive into all relevant steps to build a Question-Answering system. Starting from data extraction and transformation, followed by text embedding, chunking and hybrid retrieval to strategies and last but not least methods to mitigate hallucinations of LLMs during the answer creation.

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## AAIP Community

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## TOC

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00:00:00 Beginning

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00:03:33 Guest Introduction

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00:08:51 Building Q/A Systems for businesses

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00:16:27 RAG: Data extraction & pre-processing

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00:26:08 RAG: Chunking & Embedding

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00:36:13 RAG: Information Retrieval

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00:48:59 Hallucinations

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01:02:21 Future RAG systems

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## Sponsors

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- Quantics: Supply Chain Planning for the new normal - the never normal - https://quantics.io/

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- Belichberg GmbH: Software that Saves the Planet: The Future of Energy Begins Here - https://belichberg.com/

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### References

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Veronika Vishnevskaia - https://www.linkedin.com/in/veronika-vishnevskaia/

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Ontec - www.ontec.at

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Review Hallucination Mitigation Techniques: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.01313.pdf

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Aleph-Alpha: https://aleph-alpha.com/de/technologie/