What the data for this category looks like
Shipping port financial report data mainly comes from public disclosure documents of port authorities, monthly statistical reports of industry associations, and regular annual reports of listed companies. The data update cycle is primarily quarterly, supplemented by annual audit reports and temporary business change announcements. Document structures typically include three modules: core business indicators, cost composition, and revenue breakdown. Core fields include container throughput, bulk cargo throughput, per-container operation cost, and total port operation hours. The corresponding units are TEU, ton, yuan/TEU, and hour, respectively.
What constraints these characteristics impose on multi-turn dialogue and prompt engineering
The multi-source and dispersed nature of shipping port financial report data requires multi-turn dialogue to gradually guide users to clarify data source types, to avoid mixing cross-caliber data. The non-fixed update rhythm of quarterly and temporary announcements requires prompts to include logic that prioritizes calling the latest disclosed documents, to prevent use of expired data. The unit differences across multiple business fields require prompts to clearly define unified statistical caliber conversion rules, to avoid confusion between units such as TEU, ton, and operation duration. The fixed document module structure can be used for context splitting in multi-turn dialogue, advancing questions in sequence by throughput, cost, and revenue modules to reduce redundant information interference.
Configuration Settings
| Configuration Item | Recommended Value | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
maxContext | 8000–12000 tokens | Shipping port financial report documents include multi-module business data and caliber explanations. A longer context can retain complete historical question logic |
recallCount | Top 8–12 entries | Financial report fields are numerous and have complex calibers. Sufficient recalled entries can cover statistical rules and business values of different modules |
PARSE_FILE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS | 600 seconds | A single Word financial report document over 10 MB includes multi-page tables and charts, requiring sufficient parsing time |
UPLOAD_FILE_MAX_SIZE | 15 MB | Annual shipping port financial reports typically include detailed attached tables, supporting file uploads within 15 MB |
SIMILARITY_THRESHOLD | 0.72–0.78 | Distinguish similar throughput and cost fields in financial reports, to avoid recalling irrelevant business description entries |
rerankTopN | Top 4–6 entries | Filter redundant entries in recall results, retaining the most relevant financial report data fragments for the current question |
The parameter values provided on this page are common recommended starting points for configuration. Actual values are affected by material format, data volume, and business rules. Specific issues require case-by-case analysis, and it is recommended to test on your own samples before finalizing.
Three Common Misconfigurations
- Symptom: A
408 Request Timeoutstatus code is returned when parsing Word documents over 10 MB in size. Cause: ThePARSE_FILE_TIMEOUT_SECONDSparameter was not adjusted to a sufficient duration, and the default timeout setting is insufficient to cover the parsing process of multi-page tables and charts. - Symptom: The specified shipping port financial report knowledge base cannot be associated when calling the dialogue interface, and a
field_not_founderror is returned. Cause: The corresponding knowledge base ID was not bound in the dialogue configuration, or theknowledgeBaseIdparameter was not configured correctly. - Symptom: Statistical caliber confusion occurs multiple times in multi-turn dialogue, and the returned results include both container throughput data in TEU and ton. Cause: The prompt did not clearly require unified statistical units and calibers for financial report data, and no caliber verification guidance logic was added to the multi-turn dialogue.
How to Verify Proper Configuration
- Upload a Word document of a shipping port financial report around 10 MB in size, check whether the parsing status is completed within the preset timeout period, and confirm that the value of
PARSE_FILE_TIMEOUT_SECONDSis adapted to the current document size. - Initiate consecutive questions including "container throughput" and "per-container operation cost", check whether the dialogue context retains the caliber explanation from the previous round, and confirm that the value of
maxContextis sufficient to cover necessary context information. - Adjust the similarity threshold and initiate a test question, verify whether the recall results only include entries related to shipping port financial reports, and confirm that the threshold setting meets the field differentiation requirements of the current knowledge base.
- Call the dialogue interface and pass the bound knowledge base ID, check whether the returned results include financial report data from the knowledge base, and confirm that the API parameter configuration is correct.
Question material comes from public community discussions. Configuration values are common starting points and should be measured against your own samples. Verified on 2026-09-14.