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.
Amazon Q Business supports source attribution with citations. If you
specify the _source_uri metadata field when you add metadata to your
Amazon S3 bucket, the source attribution links returned by Amazon Q Business in the
chat results will direct users to the configured URL. If you don't specify a _source_uri,
users can still access the source documents through clickable citation links that will
download the file at query time. This allows users to verify information even when
no source URI is configured. 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.
