Chi Hoang
2026
5ting at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Strong End-to-End Multi-Turn RAG via LLM-Based Reranking and Faithfulness Control
Thien-Qua T-Nguyen | Chi Hoang | Nguyen Tran | Tri Le | Khanh Truong | Chinh Nguyen
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
Thien-Qua T-Nguyen | Chi Hoang | Nguyen Tran | Tri Le | Khanh Truong | Chinh Nguyen
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
This paper presents a modular multi-turn Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system designed to mitigate hallucination, context drift, and underspecification. The pipeline combines dual-query merged retrieval and LLM-based reranking to deliver high-precision evidence, improving nDCG@5 by 17.7%. To strictly control hallucination during generation, we introduce a role-separated prompting strategy. - This approach explicitly isolates the conversation history (used solely for intent and coreference resolution) from the retrieved passages (enforced as the exclusive source of factual grounding). - By preventing the language model from misinterpreting prior dialogue turns as factual evidence, the system ranked 3/29 in the SemEval-2026 Task 8 end-to-end evaluation. - Notably, our faithfulness-oriented design achieved a high ROUGE-L F1 score of 0.7692, outperforming larger baselines and demonstrating that explicit grounding constraints are highly effective at ensuring lexical faithfulness and reducing hallucinations.