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Query expansion is an effective approach for mitigating vocabulary mismatch between queries and documents in information retrieval. One recent line of research uses language models to generate query-related contexts for expansion. Along…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Linqing Liu , Minghan Li , Jimmy Lin , Sebastian Riedel , Pontus Stenetorp

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

Query expansion is a well known method to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. In this work we have tested different approaches to extract the candidate query terms from the top ranked documents returned by the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-12-18 José R. Pérez-Agüera , Lourdes Araujo

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

Getting relevant information from search engines has been the heart of research works in information retrieval. Query expansion is a retrieval technique that has been studied and proved to yield positive results in relevance. Users are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Onifade Olufade , Arise Abiola , Ogboo Chisom

One technique to improve the retrieval effectiveness of a search engine is to expand documents with terms that are related or representative of the documents' content.From the perspective of a question answering system, this might comprise…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Rodrigo Nogueira , Wei Yang , Jimmy Lin , Kyunghyun Cho

Text clustering holds significant value across various domains due to its ability to identify patterns and group related information. Current approaches which rely heavily on a computed similarity measure between documents are often limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Laurence Hirsch , Robin Hirsch , Bayode Ogunleye

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

Keyword based search engines have problems with term ambiguity and vocabulary mismatch. In this paper, we propose a query expansion technique that enriches queries expressed as keywords and short natural language descriptions. We present a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-10-23 Joan Guisado-Gámez , David Dominguez-Sal , Josep-LLuis Larriba-Pey

The vocabulary mismatch problem is one of the important challenges facing traditional keyword-based Information Retrieval Systems. The aim of query expansion (QE) is to reduce this query-document mismatch by adding related or synonymous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Dipasree Pal , Mandar Mitra , Samar Bhattacharya

Query expansion is a technique widely used in image search consisting in combining highly ranked images from an original query into an expanded query that is then reissued, generally leading to increased recall and precision. An important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Albert Gordo , Filip Radenovic , Tamara Berg

The rapid growth of web has resulted in vast volume of information. Information availability at a rapid speed to the user is vital. English language (or any for that matter) has lot of ambiguity in the usage of words. So there is no…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-08-30 Jeevan H E , Prashanth P P , Punith Kumar S N , Vinay Hegde

Manifold ranking has been successfully applied in query-oriented multi-document summarization. It not only makes use of the relationships among the sentences, but also the relationships between the given query and the sentences. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Quanye Jia , Rui Liu , Jianying Lin

Query expansion is the reformulation of a user query by adding semantically related information, and is an essential component of monolingual and cross-lingual information retrieval used to ensure that relevant documents are not missed.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Olivia Macmillan-Scott , Roksana Goworek , Eda B. Özyiğit

Poor information retrieval performance has often been attributed to the query-document vocabulary mismatch problem which is defined as the difficulty for human users to formulate precise natural language queries that are in line with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Bhawani Selvaretnam , Mohammed Belkhatir

Information Retrieval (IR) is concerned with the identification of documents in a collection that are relevant to a given information need, usually represented as a query containing terms or keywords, which are supposed to be a good…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Luis M. de Campos , Juan M. Fernandez-Luna , Juan F. Huete

Query expansion is the process of reformulating the original query by adding relevant words. Choosing which terms to add in order to improve the performance of the query expansion methods or to enhance the quality of the retrieved results…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Farah Alshanik , Amy Apon , Yuheng Du , Alexander Herzog , Ilya Safro

As code search is a frequent developer activity in software development practices, improving the performance of code search is a critical task. In the text retrieval based search techniques employed in the code search, the term mismatch…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Liming Nie , He Jiang , Zhilei Ren , Zeyi Sun , Xiaochen Li

A significant number of event-related queries are issued in Web search. In this paper, we seek to improve retrieval performance by leveraging events and specifically target the classic task of query expansion. We propose a method to expand…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Guy D. Rosin , Ido Guy , Kira Radinsky

Effective query expansion for web search benefits from promoting both exploration and result diversity to capture multiple interpretations and facets of a query. While recent LLM-based methods have improved retrieval performance and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yibin Lei , Tao Shen , Andrew Yates
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