PROGRAM
| 9:00–10:15 Session 1 | |
| 9:00–9:05 | Opening Remarks |
| 9:05–9:35 | Invited Speaker |
| 9:35–9:55 | Shared Task RIRAG-2025: Regulatory Information Retrieval and Answer Generation Tuba Gokhan, Kexin Wang, Iryna Gurevych and Ted Briscoe |
| 9:55–10:15 | Challenges in Technical Regulatory Text Variation Detection Shriya Vaagdevi Chikati, Samuel Larkin, David Minicola and Chi-kiu Lo |
| 10:15–11:00 Coffee Break | |
| 11:00–12:20 Session 2 | |
| 11:00–11:30 | Invited Speaker |
| 11:30–11:55 | Bilingual BSARD: Extending Statutory Article Retrieval to Dutch Ehsan Lotfi, Nikolay Banar, Nerses Yuzbashyan and Walter Daelemans |
| 11:55–12:20 | Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs for efficient Regulatory Information Retrieval and Answer Generation Kishore Vanapalli, Aravind Kilaru, Omair Shafiq and Shahzad Khan |
| 12:20–14:00 Lunch Break | |
| 14:00–15:20 Session 3 | |
| 14:00–14:20 | A Hybrid Approach to Information Retrieval and Answer Generation for Regulatory Texts Jhon Stewar Rayo Mosquera, Carlos Raul De La Rosa Peredo and Mario Garrido Cordoba |
| 14:20–14:40 | 1-800-SHARED-TASKS at RegNLP: Lexical Reranking of Semantic Retrieval (LeSeR) for Regulatory Question Answering Jebish Purbey, Drishti Sharma, Siddhant Gupta, Khawaja Murad, Siddartha Pullakhandam and Ram Mohan Rao Kadiyala |
| 14:40–15:00 | MST-R: Multi-Stage Tuning for Retrieval Systems and Metric Evaluation Yash Malviya, Karan Dhingra and Maneesh Singh |
| 15:00–15:20 | AUEB-Archimedes at RIRAG-2025: Is Obligation concatenation really all you need? Ioannis Chasandras, Odysseas S. Chlapanis and Ion Androutsopoulos |
| 15:20–16:00 Coffee Break | |
| 16:00–17:30 Poster Session | |
| 16:00–17:30 | Structured Tender Entities Extraction from Complex Tables with Few-short Learning Asim Abbas, Mark Lee, Niloofer Shanavas, Venelin Kovatchev and Mubashir Ali |
| 16:00–17:30 | A Two-Stage LLM System for Enhanced Regulatory Information Retrieval and Answer Generation Fengzhao Sun, Jun Yu, Jiaming Hou, yutong lin and Tianyu Liu |
| 16:00–17:30 | NUST Nova at RIRAG 2025: A Hybrid Framework for Regulatory Information Retrieval and Question Answering Mariam Babar Khan, Huma Ameer, Seemab Latif and Mehwish Fatima |
| 16:00–17:30 | NUST Alpha at RIRAG 2025: Fusion RAG for Bridging Lexical and Semantic Retrieval and Question Answering Muhammad Rouhan Faisal, Muhammad Abdullah, Faizyaab Ali Shah, Shalina Riaz, Huma Ameer, Seemab Latif and Mehwish Fatima |
| 16:00–17:30 | NUST Omega at RIRAG 2025: Investigating Context-aware Retrieval and Answer Generations-Lessons and Challenges Huma Ameer, Muhammad Hannan Akram, Seemab Latif and Mehwish Fatima |
| 16:00–17:30 | Enhancing Regulatory Compliance Through Automated Retrieval, Reranking, and Answer Generation Kübranur Umar, Hakan Doğan, Onur Özcan, İsmail Karakaya, Alper Karamanlıoğlu and Berkan Demirel |
| 16:00–17:30 | A REGNLP Framework: Developing Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Regulatory Document Analysis Ozan Bayer, Elif Nehir ULU, Yasemin Sarkın, Ekrem Sütçü, Defne Buse Çelik, Alper Karamanlıoğlu, İsmail Karakaya and Berkan Demirel |
| 16:00–17:30 | Regulatory Question-Answering using Generative AI Devin Quinn, Sumit P. Pai, Iman Yousfi, Nirmala Pudota and Sanmitra Bhattacharya |
| 16:00–17:30 | RIRAG: A Bi-Directional Retrieval-Enhanced Framework for Financial Legal QA in ObliQA Shared Task Xinyan Zhang, Xiaobing Feng, Xiujuan Xu, zhiliang zheng and Kai Wu |
| 16:00–17:30 | RAGulator: Effective RAG for Regulatory Question Answering Islam Aushev, Egor Kratkov, Evgenii Nikoalev, Andrei Vladimirovich Glinskii, Vasilii Krikunov, Alexander Panchenko, Vasily Konovalov and Julia Belikova |