Glossary
Grounding
Using external information, such as retrieved web pages, to inform a generated answer. Grounding does not by itself establish correctness.
In practice
An answer can consult live web sources and still omit a relevant business.
This is Outrigger’s working definition. Always check a study’s operational definition before comparing its findings with another study.
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Related term: Retrieval.
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