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Nowadays, according to the increasingly increasing information, the importance of its presentation is also increasing. The internet has become one of the main sources of information for users and their favorite topics. It also provides…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Mohammad Moradi , Elham Ghanbari , Mehrdad Maeen , Sasan Harifi

This paper is a short description of an information retrieval system enhanced by three model driven retrieval services: (1) co-word analysis based query expansion, re-ranking via (2) Bradfordizing and (3) author centrality. The different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Philipp Schaer , Philipp Mayr , Peter Mutschke

With the breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs), query generation techniques that expand documents and queries with related terms are becoming increasingly popular in the information retrieval field. Such techniques have been shown…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Adam Yang , Gustavo Penha , Enrico Palumbo , Hugues Bouchard

Specific to Math Information Retrieval is combining text with mathematical formulae both in documents and in queries. Rigorous evaluation of query expansion and merging strategies combining math and standard textual keyword terms in a query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Martin Líška , Petr Sojka , Michal Růžička

Over the last fifteen years, web searching has seen tremendous improvements. Starting from a nearly random collection of matching pages in 1995, today, search engines tend to satisfy the user's informational need on well-formulated queries.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-09-05 Margareta Ackerman , David Loker , Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz

Using large language models (LMs) for query or document expansion can improve generalization in information retrieval. However, it is unknown whether these techniques are universally beneficial or only effective in specific settings, such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Orion Weller , Kyle Lo , David Wadden , Dawn Lawrie , Benjamin Van Durme , Arman Cohan , Luca Soldaini

The patent examination process includes a search of previous work to verify that a patent application describes a novel invention. Patent examiners primarily use keyword-based searches to uncover prior art. A critical part of keyword…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Arthi Krishna , Ye Jin , Christine Foster , Greg Gabel , Britt Hanley , Abdou Youssef

Information-seeking conversation systems are increasingly popular in real-world applications, especially for e-commerce companies. To retrieve appropriate responses for users, it is necessary to compute the matching degrees between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Haojie Pan , Cen Chen , Chengyu Wang , Minghui Qiu , Liu Yang , Feng Ji , Jun Huang

Search techniques make use of elementary information such as term frequencies and document lengths in computation of similarity weighting. They can also exploit richer statistics, in particular the number of documents in which any two terms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Bodo Billerbeck , Justin Zobel , Nicholas Lester , Nick Craswell

Query expansion has been employed for a long time to improve the accuracy of query retrievers. Earlier works relied on pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) techniques, which augment a query with terms extracted from documents retrieved in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Muhammad Shihab Rashid , Jannat Ara Meem , Yue Dong , Vagelis Hristidis

With the ever increasing size of the web, relevant information extraction on the Internet with a query formed by a few keywords has become a big challenge. Query Expansion (QE) plays a crucial role in improving searches on the Internet.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Hiteshwar Kumar Azad , Akshay Deepak

Legal professionals worldwide are currently trying to get up-to-pace with the explosive growth in legal document availability through digital means. This drives a need for high efficiency Legal Information Retrieval (IR) and Question…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Danilo S. Carvalho , Duc-Vu Tran , Van-Khanh Tran , Le-Nguyen Minh

In information retrieval systems, search parameters are optimized to ensure high effectiveness based on a set of past searches and these optimized parameters are then used as the system configuration for all subsequent queries. A better…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Josiane Mothe , Md Zia Ullah

Query expansion aims to mitigate the mismatch between the language used in a query and in a document. However, query expansion methods can suffer from introducing non-relevant information when expanding the query. To bridge this gap,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Zhi Zheng , Kai Hui , Ben He , Xianpei Han , Le Sun , Andrew Yates

Query expansion is a widely used technique to improve the recall of search systems. In this paper, we propose an approach to query expansion that leverages the generative abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Unlike traditional query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Rolf Jagerman , Honglei Zhuang , Zhen Qin , Xuanhui Wang , Michael Bendersky

Query expansion is a method for alleviating the vocabulary mismatch problem present in information retrieval tasks. Previous works have shown that terms selected for query expansion by traditional methods such as pseudo-relevance feedback…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Ayyoob Imani , Amir Vakili , Ali Montazer , Azadeh Shakery

Traditional query expansion techniques for addressing vocabulary mismatch problems in information retrieval are context-sensitive and may lead to performance degradation. As an alternative, document expansion research has gained attention,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Jisu Kim , Jinhee Park , Changhyun Jeon , Jungwoo Choi , Keonwoo Kim , Minji Hong , Sehyun Kim

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to a surge of interest in query augmentation for information retrieval (IR). Two main approaches have emerged. The first prompts LLMs to generate answers or pseudo-documents that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhichao Xu , Shengyao Zhuang , Xueguang Ma , Bingsen Chen , Yijun Tian , Fengran Mo , Jie Cao , Vivek Srikumar

The search of information in large text repositories has been plagued by the so-called document-query vocabulary gap, i.e. the semantic discordance between the contents in the stored document entities on the one hand and the human query on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Bhawani Selvaretnam , Mohammed Belkhatir

Recent studies have proposed leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) as information retrievers through query rewriting. However, for challenging corpora, we argue that enhancing queries alone is insufficient for robust semantic matching;…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jingming Liu , Yumeng Li , Wei Shi , Yao-Xiang Ding , Hui Su , Kun Zhou