RAGEAR: Retrieval-Augmented Graph-Enhanced Academic Recommender
We present RAGEAR (Retrieval-Augmented Graph-Enhanced Academic Recommender), a neurosymbolic recommender system for academic course recommendation. RAGEAR combines dense retrieval over full lecture transcripts with a symbolic Knowledge Graph modelling courses, lessons, transcript chunks, credits, study plans, and curricular information. The Knowledge Graph supports symbolic filtering and contextualisation based on structured constraints, such as credits, academic disciplines, study plans, and prerequisites. Unlike metadata-based approaches, it exploits fine-grained instructional content by retrieving transcript chunks semantically aligned with a student's query. The main contribution is a graph-aware aggregation function that propagates chunk-level evidence to course-level recommendations. The score combines three factors: the share of retrieved similarity associated with a course, the rank-based strength of its relevant chunks, and the distribution of evidence across lessons. We evaluate RAGEAR on 152 student-like queries through a human evaluation sample and a large-scale LLM-based relevance assessment. Results show that lecture transcripts improve over metadata-only retrieval, and that RAGEAR further improves ranking quality over a transcript-based normalized SumP baseline, especially for top-ranked recommendations.
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