From Ranked Documents to Reliable Contexts: An Answer-Oriented Context Construct Framework for AI Search

2026-09-20

AI Summary

该研究针对AI搜索中构建可靠上下文的问题，提出一个三阶段框架，通过答案支持、内容可信度评估和上下文组织来生成正确答案。

Abstract

Traditional Web search follows a human-facing paradigm in which users inspect ranked documents and synthesize information themselves. In AI Search, retrieved documents instead serve as inputs to a generation model, shifting the retrieval objective from ranking documents by Search Satisfaction to constructing reliable context for correct answer generation. We formulate this shift as answer-oriented context construction through a three-stage framework: (1) Answer Support identifies candidate documents that contribute information to answer generation; (2) Content Trustworthiness assesses whether this information provides a reliable basis for correct answers from source, temporal, and factual perspectives; and (3) Context Organization selects, consolidates, and structures retained information under a finite context budget for consistent and robust generation. We further develop an industrial workflow spanning prior and posterior optimization and establish a systematic evaluation protocol covering both retrieval-side context and final answers. Experiments show consistent improvements at both Retrieval and Answer levels, demonstrating the effectiveness of the framework and its industrial implementation.

Problem

• Answer-Oriented
• Context Construction
• Reliable Contexts
• AI Search

Innovation

• answer-oriented context construction
• content trustworthiness
• context organization