Project
FoRAGe is a search engine developed at the MIT Center for Constructive Communication that allows you to explore conversational data more deeply than would be possible through a keyword search. Queries, which can be written using everyday language, allow you to search for excerpts from conversation transcripts and analyses of the search results, complete with citations. The result is a synthesis of insights to encourage deeper exploration and discussion.
And the meaning of the name? The RAG in FoRAGe is a reference to Retrieval Augmented Generation sensemaking.
Try it out:
https://forage.ccc-mit.org/
Read the paper:
Hope Schroeder, Doug Beeferman, Maya Detwiller, Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, and Deb Roy. 2025. Forage: Understanding RAG-based Sensemaking for Community Conversations. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 283, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3719756
