Researchers have developed Guardian Crawler, a new retrieval-first system designed for knowledge discovery and evidence-grounded summarization from noisy web data. The system combines BM25 retrieval with advanced reranking techniques and constrained retrieval-augmented generation, incorporating explicit document citations. Experiments on a synthetic corpus showed that risk-based reranking achieved superior descriptive retrieval scores, with the best configurations reaching an NDCG@10 of 0.94. While the system demonstrated feasibility as a controlled testbed, further validation is needed for statistical superiority and faithfulness on live web data. AI
IMPACT This system could improve the reliability of information extraction and summarization from unstructured, noisy web data.
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