The increasing complexity and volume of technical documentation, including requirements specifications, patents, and engineering reports, create significant challenges for manual analysis and knowledge extraction. This paper includes a systematic rev...
Technical documentation is evolving from static contents presented on paper or via digital publishing to real-time on-demand contents displayed via virtual and augmented reality (AR) devices. However, how best to provide personalized and context-rele...
Technical documents differ from general text corpora in ways that complicate retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Evidence for a single answer is often distributed across numbered clauses, tables, figures, captions, and ordered procedures rather tha...
Retrieval-augmented generation provides an effective solution for domain-specific question answering by incorporating external knowledge. However, existing RAG systems typically represent retrieved knowledge as plain-text chunks, with limited attenti...
In complex construction projects, technical specifications have to be reviewed in a short period of time. Even experienced engineers find it difficult to review every detail of technical specifications. In addition, it is not easy to transfer experie...
Virtual Reality (VR) is a critical emerging technology in industrial contexts, as it facilitates collaboration and supports the product development lifecycle. However, its broad adoption is constrained by complex and high-cost integration. The use of...
In burn medicine, the percentage of the burned body surface area (TBSA-B) to the total body surface area (TBSA) is a crucial parameter to ensure adequate treatment and therapy. Inaccurate estimations of the burn extent can lead to wrong medical decis...
This paper examines the relevance of information architectures of content used for RAG-based systems within the domain of software documentation. It specifically focuses on how information architectures impact the retrieval performance of such docume...
This paper examines how semantic information architectures within technical communication shape topic ensemble properties being relevant for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. They allow for investigating the AI-readiness of technical cont...
Open-book question answering is a subset of question answering (QA) tasks where the system aims to find answers in a given set of documents (open-book) and common knowledge about a topic. This article proposes a solution for answering natural languag...
Technical documentation creation is a collaborative process involving several departments in R&D. Even though virtual reality (VR) has been demonstrated to facilitate industrial collaboration and advance the product development lifecycle in earli...
This study develops a domain-adaptive multimodal RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system to improve the accuracy and efficiency of technical question answering based on large-scale structured manuals. Using Hyundai Staria maintenance documents as...
Deep learning (DL) methods have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP), enabling industrial documentation systems to process and generate text with high accuracy and fluency. Modern deep learning models, such as transformers and recurrent n...
Standard Retrieval–Augmented Generation (RAF) often fails in safety-critical manufacturing and reveals the inherent problem of additional and inappropriate retrieved context topics. In engine manufacturing, where topic-based documentation is wi...
The cataloguing and revision of reactor pressure vessels (RPV) manufacturing and in-service inspection codes and their standardized material specifications—as a technical heritage—are essential for understanding the historical evolution of criteria a...
With artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly increasing in popularity and presence in everyday life, new applications utilizing AI are being explored across virtually all domains, from banking and healthcare to cybersecurity to generative AI for images,...
Over several decades, digital cultural heritage has been increasingly reused across research, education, creative practice and through public community engagement. However, these activities remain undescribed or inconsistently documented and difficul...
Automating the evaluation of technical documents, such as laboratory reports, requires balancing accurate multimodal information extraction with efficient downstream processing. This paper proposes a vision–language model (VLM) processing pipel...
Digital-twin technology promises real-time virtual representations of the built environment, yet accurate 3D documentation—its foundational layer—remains underdeveloped for architectural heritage in Ecuador, where 170,000 inventoried asse...
English is used in all parts of aviation, especially in aircraft maintenance, where all documentation and various manuals are written in this language. However, there are no formal requirements for aircraft mechanics to have a certain level of Englis...
We introduce a similarity-based ensemble framework for assessing the AI-readiness of topic-based technical content in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) contexts. Rather than evaluating RAG performance through query-and-answer measurements, the pro...
With rising incidence in recent years, Listeriosis, a severe foodborne disease in humans primarily transmitted through ready-to-eat (RTE) foods contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, became the most severe zoonotic disease in the European Union (E...
1 December 2008
In the effort of Governments worldwide to effectively transform manual into electronic services, semantic interoperability issues pose as a key challenge: system-to-system interaction asks for standardized data definitions, codification of existing u...
In enterprises operating large-scale equipment, such as plants, maintenance workers must quickly and accurately find and understand the information in the equipment maintenance documents to perform maintenance tasks effectively. If the equipment main...
Change detection (CD) in optical remote-sensing images is a critical task for applications such as urban planning, disaster monitoring, and environmental assessment. While UNet-based architecture has demonstrated strong performance in CD tasks, it of...
Good clinical practice guidelines are based on randomized controlled trials or clinical series; however, technical performance bias among surgical trials is under-assessed. The heterogeneity of technical performance within different treatment groups...
1 December 2008
The adoption of advanced integration technologies that enable private and public organizations to seamlessly execute their business transactions electronically is still relatively low, especially among governmental bodies and Small and Medium-sized E...
The accelerating digitalization of the public and private sectors has made information technologies (IT) indispensable in modern life. As services shift to digital platforms and technologies expand across industries, the complexity of legal, regulato...
Digital reconstruction and augmented reality are increasingly used in industrial heritage, but relatively few studies document the complete and reproducible process from historical data acquisition to the final AR-ready model for public exhibition. T...
Non-patent literature is defined as scientific publications, technical standards, conference proceedings, clinical trials, books, manuals, technical or research reports, or any other technical scientific material which is cited in patents to show wha...
Digitalization and intelligence have become pivotal in the realm of oil and gas field development, concomitant with a marked increase in the volume of fracturing-related documentation, the majority of which exists in unstructured form. This has given...
Digital objects and documentation of intangible cultural heritage pose new challenges for most museums, which have a long history in preserving tangible objects. Art museums, however, have been working with digital objects for some decades, as they h...
Karpathy’s proposal to replace Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with plain-text knowledge bases maintained directly by language agents (Agentic Knowledge Curation) has gained traction in industrial applications yet lacks systematic empirica...
(1) Background: Zoonotic diseases require coordinated action across human, animal, and environmental health sectors. While substantial research has focused on outbreak prediction, forecasting, and surveillance, less attention has been given to system...
Lightweight electric vehicles are increasingly proposed for low-emission logistics, municipal services and decentralised transport tasks. However, their suitability in resource- and technology-constrained development contexts cannot be assessed throu...
Joint replacement registries are essential for post-market surveillance; however, medical device (MD) classification dictionaries often rely on manual processes and heterogeneous data sources, limiting efficiency and standardization. The aim of this...
Indigenous technical knowledge derived from traditional wisdom is an asset of farmers in developing countries. To ensure the continuity of these practices for future generations, we need to understand the scientific rationality and their communicatio...
3D cadastral issues have been the subject of scientific research for more than 20 years. However, the initial registration of objects in 3D cadastres remains a significant challenge. The purpose of this study is to verify whether it is possible to re...
The principles of computer skills have been included in primary and secondary educated since the early 2000s, and the reform of curricula is related to the development of IT. Therefore, curricula should reflect the latest technological trends and nee...
Technical drawing is a foundational university course typically taught in the first semester of most technical and engineering programmes. A thorough understanding of the course content and the ability to prepare high-quality technical documentation...
25 August 2017
This is a technical note describing hard tissue landmarks to simplify the intraoral glossopharyngeal nerve block. Our literature review revealed no specific mention of the same procedure in documented data.
The article addresses the challenges of modernizing Kazakhstan’s railway infrastructure under conditions of technological dependence on foreign automation systems and obsolete relay-based equipment. These factors pose significant risks to econo...
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a modern approach to managing the process of preparation, realization and operation of building objects including their documentation throughout their life cycle, based on database agenda platform. The aim of o...
In the last six years, there has been a rise in research interest with regard to the applications of blockchain technology in supply chains and how these applications bring benefits to supply chain management. In a broader sense, an essential researc...
In the construction sector, technical bid evaluation is crucial for maintaining equity, evaluating contractor capabilities, and allocating resources efficiently. However, traditional methods rely heavily on manual expert review, which can introduce s...
Grounding is one of the key elements ensuring the reliable operation of overhead lines. The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive assessment of grounding using a 400 kV overhead line as an example. The paper presents the results of diag...
The value of historical railways and their important role in social, economic, technical, political, and cultural terms has led to their inclusion as industrial heritage attractions. This study aims to evaluate the heritage value of the Oraviţa&...
Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the epidemiological characteristics of bicycling-related maxillofacial fractures in a defined population and to identify factors contributing to these injuries. Methods: An 8-year cohort study was ca...
Background/Objectives: The aims of this study were to investigate maxillofacial trauma resulting from electric scooter accidents and to identify risk factors associated with the location of injuries. Methods: An 8-year retrospective cohort study was...
This paper explains the project’s objectives, identifies the key stakeholders, defines the project manager’s authority and provides a preliminary breakdown of roles and responsibilities. For the project’s future, it acts as a source...
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