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Chunking, Retrieval, and Re-ranking: An Empirical Evaluation of RAG Architectures for Policy Document Question Answering

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Main Authors:	Maharjan, Anuj, Yadav, Umesh
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Information Retrieval
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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