Knowledge Base Retrieval for Professional Qualification Exam Applications: Find Supporting Evidence

Professional Exams: review retrieval for evidence lookup. Check source versions, input mappings and the values received by downstream nodes.

What this category's data looks like

This page addresses the scenario of registration review for professional and technical personnel vocational qualification examinations. The materials include three categories: registration forms, education certificates, and work experience certificates. The registration form contains name, ID number, examination level, work unit, signature field, and date; the education certificate contains graduating institution, major, education level, certificate number, and issue date; the work experience certificate contains start and end dates of employment, position title, unit seal, and handler signature. The three types of materials enter the knowledge base in batches, and versions are updated with corrections and re-reviews. When entering the knowledge base retrieval service, the registration form assumes the role of verifying identity and examination registration information, the education certificate assumes the role of matching education level and major, and the work experience certificate assumes the role of consistency between years and position. During retrieval, each participates as an independent candidate source in recall and merging.

Configuration and implementation checks

This step is executed by the knowledge base retrieval service (retrieval node and search test), outputting candidate snippets and similarity scores (after pattern, merging, reranking, filtering, and limit trimming). The basis entries that can be traced back to the original text are completed by subsequent nodes or manually.

ObjectCheckVerification action
Registration formFields, dates, and signatures must match the education certificate and work experience certificateIn the search test, verify name, examination level, date, and signature field, and record the number of candidates and the similarity score
Education certificateInstitution, major, education level, certificate number, and issue date must be consistent with the registration formSwitch searchMode to semantic, full-text, and hybrid, test each once, and compare whether candidates simultaneously contain both types of materials
Work experience certificateStart and end dates of employment, position title, seal, and handler signature must be consistent with the work unit on the registration formCompare the ranking of the top few entries before and after enabling usingReRank, and verify whether dates and position titles match the original text
Cited contentAfter similarity filtering and limit trimming, key snippets of the original text are still retainedRecord the number of entries in the citation array, separately verify the tokens of the cited text, and do not compare for equality with quoteMaxToken

Three common errors

  • Phenomenon: The unit name and employment dates for the same record do not match between the registration form and the work experience certificate. Cause: The two materials were filled out by different handlers, versions were not synchronized, and after retrieval hits, the original text was not traced back for verification.
  • Phenomenon: The education certificate lacks an issue date or handler signature, and the work experience certificate lacks a seal or receipt. Cause: Correction materials were not returned, the knowledge base version remained at the old batch, and recall candidates still point to old snippets.
  • Phenomenon: The same question cannot be recalled when rephrased, and although there are many candidates, the ones ranked at the top are all irrelevant. Cause: searchMode does not match the material form, usingReRank is not enabled, and key paragraphs are missing after similarity filtering and limit trimming.

How to verify the setup

Acceptance of this function: Test once each with synonym-rewritten question sentences, compare the number of candidates and similarity scores, switch searchMode, and toggle usingReRank to observe changes in the ranking of the top few entries.

Business test: Ask a cross-material basis question and see whether the answer provides a traceable source.

  • In the search test, fix the question sentence, run it once each with the three searchMode settings: semantic, full-text, and hybrid, record the number of candidates and similarity scores, and verify whether registration form and education certificate snippets are simultaneously included.
  • Run once before and after enabling usingReRank, compare the order of the top few entries; then verify the number of entries in the citation array and the tokens of the cited text, and confirm that key snippets are still present after limit trimming.