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
Professor of Information Systems at the University of Lausanne, leading the “Big Data and Machine Learning” lab.