AI engineering glossary · RAG vector search
What is citation?
Citation: A pointer from a generated statement to the source passage that supports it, such as a document title and page. Citations let users verify answers and let developers check that claims are grounded.
Citation: an example
The answer ends with '[HR Policy, p. 12]' pointing to the chunk used.
Related terms
More RAG vector search terms
- ColBERT
- Context ordering
- Context precision
- Context recall
- Context relevance
- Contextual chunk enrichment
- Contextual retrieval
- Conversational RAG
Where you learn it
Citation is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.