YongTaek Lim
2025
TIDES: Technical Information Discovery and Extraction System
Jihee Kim
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Subeen Park
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Hakyung Lee
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YongTaek Lim
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Hyo-won Suh
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Kyungwoo Song
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Addressing the challenges in QA for specific technical domains requires identifying relevant portions of extensive documents and generating answers based on this focused content. Traditional pre-trained LLMs often struggle with domain-specific terminology, while fine-tuned LLMs demand substantial computational resources. To overcome these limitations, we propose TIDES, Technical Information Distillation and Extraction System. TIDES is a training-free approach that combines traditional TF-IDF techniques with prompt-based LLMs in a hybrid process, effectively addressing complex technical questions. It uses TF-IDF to identify and prioritize domain-specific words that are rare in other documents and LLMs to refine the candidate pool by focusing on the most relevant segments in documents through multiple stages. Our approach improves the precision and efficiency of QA systems in technical contexts without LLM retraining.