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Lecture 5: Context Engineering - Contextual Retrieval

Lecture 5 · June 17, 2026

Readings

1. Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2. Chapter 11 of Jurafsky and Martin’s Book Speech and Language Processing

Optional Readings

Seminal Papers on Embeddings

1. Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space
2. Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality
3. GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation
4. Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information

RAG

1. ColBERT: Efficient and Effective Passage Search via Contextualized Late Interaction over BERT
2. ColBERTv2: Effective and Efficient Retrieval via Lightweight Late Interaction

Long Context

1. Recursive Language Models