Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval Second International Workshop, KEIR 2025, Lucca, Italy, April 10, 2025, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 2nd International Workshop on Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval, KEIR 2025, held in Lucca, Italy, during April 10, 2025.

The 4 full papers presented together with 4 invited papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 10 submissions. These papers  ranging from query rephrasing and
chunking techniques to LLM-generated context and agentic retrieval. 

._Advances in Knowledge-Enhanced Retrieval Models.
._Reconstructing Context: Evaluating Advanced Chunking Strategies for Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
._Going Beyond Encoders: Leveraging Decoder Architectures for Learned Sparse Retrieval.
._Enhancing Representation Learning for Content-Based Information Retrieval: A Knowledge-Enhanced Geometric Approach.
._Applications of Knowledge-Enhanced IR.
._OntologyRAG: Better and Faster Biomedical Code Mapping with
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Leveraging Ontology
Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models.
._I Know About “Up”! Enhancing Spatial Reasoning in Visual Language
Models Through 3D Knowledge Reconstruction.
._BladeLoRA: An Enhanced LoRA Method with Adaptive Rank
Selection and Pruning for Efficient Fine-Tuning.
._Evaluating Knowledge Graph Sources for Non-Personalized Financial
Asset Recommendation: 10K Reports vs. Wikidata.