Yasin Ghafourian

Adam Kovari, Yasin Ghafourian, Csaba Hegedus et al.

As artificial intelligence (AI) regulations evolve and the regulatory landscape develops and becomes more complex, ensuring compliance with ethical guidelines and legal frameworks remains a challenge for AI developers. This paper introduces an AI-driven self-assessment chatbot designed to assist users in navigating the European Union AI Act and related standards. Leveraging a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) framework, the chatbot enables real-time, context-aware compliance verification by retrieving relevant regulatory texts and providing tailored guidance. By integrating both public and proprietary standards, it streamlines regulatory adherence, reduces complexity, and fosters responsible AI development. The paper explores the chatbot's architecture, comparing naive and graph-based RAG models, and discusses its potential impact on AI governance.

Yasin Ghafourian, Sajad Movahedi, Azadeh Shakery

CQA services are valuable sources of knowledge that can be used to find answers to users' information needs. In these services, question retrieval aims to help users with their information needs by finding similar questions to theirs. However, finding similar questions is obstructed by the lexical gap that exists between relevant questions. In this work, we target this problem by using query expansion methods. We use word-similarity-based methods, propose a question-similarity-based method and selective expansion of these methods to expand a question that's been submitted and mitigate the lexical gap problem. Our best method achieves a significant relative improvement of 1.8\% compared to the best-performing baseline without query expansion.