Erick Fabián-Sandoval
2026
IIMAS-RAG at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Hybrid Sparse-Dense Retrieval and Answerability-Conditioned Generation for Multi-Turn RAG
Vania Raya-Rios | Helena Gomez-Adorno | Leon Hecht | Pedro Vázquez-Osorio | Erick Fabián-Sandoval | Jesús Vázquez-Osorio | Diego Hernández-Bustamante
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
Vania Raya-Rios | Helena Gomez-Adorno | Leon Hecht | Pedro Vázquez-Osorio | Erick Fabián-Sandoval | Jesús Vázquez-Osorio | Diego Hernández-Bustamante
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
This paper presents IIMAS-RAG, our system for SemEval-2026 Task 8 on evaluating multi-turn retrieval-augmented generation. Our approach combines LLM-based query rewriting, hybrid sparse-dense retrieval with SPLADE and Voyage-3-large fused via Reciprocal Rank Fusion, and answerability-conditioned generation with GPT-4.1. The system ranked 4th out of 38 teams in Subtask A (Retrieval) and 13th out of 29 teams in Subtask C (Full RAG). Our results show that query rewriting is the most impactful retrieval component, while generation remains challenging in low-context and partially answerable scenarios.