Source attribution with citations in Amazon Q Business
The Amazon Q Business web experience chat response provides in-text source citations for responses that use the organization's data sources and knowledge base as a source. The chat response also provides a full list of the sources used to generate the response.
Important
Amazon Q Business supports source attribution with citations. However, if
you don't specify the _source_uri metadata field when you add metadata
to your Amazon S3 bucket, the source attribution links that Amazon Q Business
returns in the chat results point to the Amazon S3 bucket that contains the document,
instead of the document itself. To learn how to add metadata for your Amazon S3
connector, see Adding document metadata in Amazon S3.
In-text source citations
In-text citations are provided in the form of a numbered list at the end of a sentence. To view an in-text source citation, choose a citation number. Each citation provides the following attributes:
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Title – The title of the source document.
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URL – A linked URL that you can follow to view the source document.
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Snippet – The snippet from the document from the source document that was used to generate each sentence in the response.
Source list
Sources used to generate the response are provided at the end of the response. Each source listed provides the following attributes:
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Citation number – The number provided at the end of the sentences in the response.
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Title – The title of the document that's the source for the generated response.
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Text segment – A text extract from a source document that's used for source attribution.
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URL – The URL of the document that's the source for the generated response.
