Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Electric Power Industry Customer Support

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Main Authors: Chan, Hei Yu, Ho, Kuok Tou, Ma, Chenglong, Si, Yujing, Lin, Hok Lai, Lam, Sa Lei
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author Chan, Hei Yu
Ho, Kuok Tou
Ma, Chenglong
Si, Yujing
Lin, Hok Lai
Lam, Sa Lei
author_facet Chan, Hei Yu
Ho, Kuok Tou
Ma, Chenglong
Si, Yujing
Lin, Hok Lai
Lam, Sa Lei
contents Many AI customer service systems use standard NLP pipelines or finetuned language models, which often fall short on ambiguous, multi-intent, or detail-specific queries. This case study evaluates recent techniques: query rewriting, RAG Fusion, keyword augmentation, intent recognition, and context reranking, for building a robust customer support system in the electric power domain. We compare vector-store and graph-based RAG frameworks, ultimately selecting the graph-based RAG for its superior performance in handling complex queries. We find that query rewriting improves retrieval for queries using non-standard terminology or requiring precise detail. RAG Fusion boosts performance on vague or multifaceted queries by merging multiple retrievals. Reranking reduces hallucinations by filtering irrelevant contexts. Intent recognition supports the decomposition of complex questions into more targeted sub-queries, increasing both relevance and efficiency. In contrast, keyword augmentation negatively impacts results due to biased keyword selection. Our final system combines intent recognition, RAG Fusion, and reranking to handle disambiguation and multi-source queries. Evaluated on both a GPT-4-generated dataset and a real-world electricity provider FAQ dataset, it achieves 97.9% and 89.6% accuracy respectively, substantially outperforming baseline RAG models.
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spellingShingle Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Electric Power Industry Customer Support
Chan, Hei Yu
Ho, Kuok Tou
Ma, Chenglong
Si, Yujing
Lin, Hok Lai
Lam, Sa Lei
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
I.2.m
Many AI customer service systems use standard NLP pipelines or finetuned language models, which often fall short on ambiguous, multi-intent, or detail-specific queries. This case study evaluates recent techniques: query rewriting, RAG Fusion, keyword augmentation, intent recognition, and context reranking, for building a robust customer support system in the electric power domain. We compare vector-store and graph-based RAG frameworks, ultimately selecting the graph-based RAG for its superior performance in handling complex queries. We find that query rewriting improves retrieval for queries using non-standard terminology or requiring precise detail. RAG Fusion boosts performance on vague or multifaceted queries by merging multiple retrievals. Reranking reduces hallucinations by filtering irrelevant contexts. Intent recognition supports the decomposition of complex questions into more targeted sub-queries, increasing both relevance and efficiency. In contrast, keyword augmentation negatively impacts results due to biased keyword selection. Our final system combines intent recognition, RAG Fusion, and reranking to handle disambiguation and multi-source queries. Evaluated on both a GPT-4-generated dataset and a real-world electricity provider FAQ dataset, it achieves 97.9% and 89.6% accuracy respectively, substantially outperforming baseline RAG models.
title Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Electric Power Industry Customer Support
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
I.2.m
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05664