Retrieval Augmented Generation Evaluation for Health Documents

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04680v1
• Date: Wed, 07 May 2025 16:12:53 GMT
• Title: Retrieval Augmented Generation Evaluation for Health Documents
• Authors: Mario Ceresa, Lorenzo Bertolini, Valentin Comte, Nicholas Spadaro, Barbara Raffael, Brigitte Toussaint, Sergio Consoli, Amalia Muñoz Piñeiro, Alex Patak, Maddalena Querci, Tobias Wiesenthal,
• Abstract summary: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a promising method to leverage the potential of Large Language Models (LLM)<n>This report assesses the potentials and shortcomings of such approaches in the automatic knowledge synthesis of different types of documents in the health domain.
• Score: 1.7926853584330775
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Safe and trustworthy use of Large Language Models (LLM) in the processing of healthcare documents and scientific papers could substantially help clinicians, scientists and policymakers in overcoming information overload and focusing on the most relevant information at a given moment. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a promising method to leverage the potential of LLMs while enhancing the accuracy of their outcomes. This report assesses the potentials and shortcomings of such approaches in the automatic knowledge synthesis of different types of documents in the health domain. To this end, it describes: (1) an internally developed proof of concept pipeline that employs state-of-the-art practices to deliver safe and trustable analysis for healthcare documents and scientific papers called RAGEv (Retrieval Augmented Generation Evaluation); (2) a set of evaluation tools for LLM-based document retrieval and generation; (3) a benchmark dataset to verify the accuracy and veracity of the results called RAGEv-Bench. It concludes that careful implementations of RAG techniques could minimize most of the common problems in the use of LLMs for document processing in the health domain, obtaining very high scores both on short yes/no answers and long answers. There is a high potential for incorporating it into the day-to-day work of policy support tasks, but additional efforts are required to obtain a consistent and trustworthy tool.

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