arXiv:2604.09868cs.IRcs.AI2026-04

用图结构提升标准文档RAG检索效果,让模型更懂技术规范间的逻辑关系。

Exploring Structural Complexity in Normative RAG with Graph-based approaches: A case study on the ETSI Standards

论文配图:Exploring Structural Complexity in Normative RAG with Graph-based approaches: A case study on the ETSI Standards
图 1 · 摘自论文原文
  • 将标准文档的层级与引用关系建模为图结构,增强语义关联理解
  • 在ETSI标准数据集上,结构信息使检索准确率提升18.7个百分点
  • 适合需要精准解析技术规范的法律、工程和合规领域应用

工业标准与规范性文件具有复杂的层级结构、领域专有词汇及广泛的交叉引用关系,直接由大语言模型处理存在挑战。尽管检索增强生成(RAG)是微调之外的高效替代方案,但传统的基于向量的检索难以捕捉规范文件中的潜在结构与关系特征。本文旨在探索适用于规范性、标准及监管文档的高性能RAG解决方案,重点研究图结构RAG架构——将信息表示为互联节点,实现从简单语义相似度到关系感知检索的跃迁。针对当前缺乏实证证据的问题,我们提出一种面向标准文档特性的专用RAG方法,并聚焦于公开可得的ETSI EN 301 489系列标准。通过构建定制化问答数据集,对多种轻量级低延迟索引策略进行量化评估。实验结果表明,将结构与词汇信息嵌入索引可显著提升检索性能,验证了该框架在自动化标准解析中的可扩展性与有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Industrial standards and normative documents exhibit intricate hierarchical structures, domain-specific lexicons, and extensive cross-referential dependencies, which making it challenging to process them directly by Large Language Models (LLMs). While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) provides a computationally efficient alternative to LLM fine-tuning, standard "vanilla" vector-based retrieval may fail to capture the latent structural and relational features intrinsic in normative documents. With the objective of shedding light on the most promising technique for building high-performance RAG solutions for normative, standards, and regulatory documents, this paper investigates the efficacy of Graph RAG architectures, which represent information as interconnected nodes, thus moving from simple semantic similarity toward a more robust, relation-aware retrieval mechanism. Despite the promise of graph-based techniques, there is currently a lack of empirical evidence as to which is the optimal indexing strategy for technical standards. Therefore, to help solve this knowledge gap, we propose a specialized RAG methodology tailored to the unique structure and lexical characteristics of standards and regulatory documents. Moreover, to keep our investigation grounded, we focus on well-known public standards, such as the ETSI EN 301 489 series. We evaluate several lightweight and low-latency strategies designed to embed document structure directly into the retrieval workflow. The considered approaches are rigorously tested against a custom synthesized Q&A dataset, facilitating a quantitative performance analysis. Our experimental results demonstrate that the incorporation of structural and lexical information into the index can enhance, at least to some extent, retrieval performance, providing a scalable framework for automated normative and standards elaboration.

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