HistoricRAG: Evidence-Centered Newspaper Retrieval for Misinformation-Resilient Question Answering
HistoricRAG presents retrieved newspaper evidence through timelines and maps.Abstract
HistoricRAG is an iPad-based application for asking questions over digitized historical newspapers while preserving access to retrieved evidence. Answers are accompanied by scanned articles, timelines, and geographic context for provenance-aware exploration.
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Publication
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2026)
Min-Yen Kan
Associate Professor
WING lead; interests include Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing.
Michalis Vlachos
Sabbatical Visiting Professor (2025-2026)
Professor of Information Systems at the University of Lausanne, leading the “Big Data and Machine Learning” lab.