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Modern information retrieval must reconcile short, ambiguous queries with increasingly diverse and dynamic corpora. Query expansion (QE) remains a core technique for mitigating vocabulary mismatch, but its design space has been reshaped by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Minghan Li , Xinxuan Lv , Junjie Zou , Tongna Chen , Chao Zhang , Suchao An , Ercong Nie , Guodong Zhou

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

This study proposes a new way of using WordNet for Query Expansion (QE). We choose candidate expansion terms, as usual, from a set of pseudo relevant documents; however, the usefulness of these terms is measured based on their definitions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-09-20 Dipasree Pal , Mandar Mitra , Kalyankumar Datta

Query expansion (QE) is a well-known technique used to enhance the effectiveness of information retrieval. QE reformulates the initial query by adding similar terms that help in retrieving more relevant results. Several approaches have been…

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

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

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

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

The exponential growth of information on the Internet is a big challenge for information retrieval systems towards generating relevant results. Novel approaches are required to reformat or expand user queries to generate a satisfactory…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Morgan Gallant , Haruna Isah , Farhana Zulkernine , Shahzad Khan

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

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 functionality of search engines that suggests a set of related queries for a user-issued keyword query. Typical corpus-driven keyword query expansion approaches return popular words in the results as expanded queries.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Ziyang Liu , Sivaramakrishnan Natarajan , Yi Chen

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

Good term selection is an important issue for an automatic query expansion (AQE) technique. AQE techniques that select expansion terms from the target corpus usually do so in one of two ways. Distribution based term selection compares the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Dipasree Pal , Mandar Mitra , Kalyankumar Datta

In search engines, query expansion (QE) is a crucial technique to improve search experience. Previous studies often rely on long-term search log mining, which leads to slow updates and is sub-optimal for time-sensitive news searches. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Yanan Zhang , Weijie Cui , Yangfan Zhang , Xiaoling Bai , Zhe Zhang , Jin Ma , Xiang Chen , Tianhua Zhou

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

Query Expansion (QE) is a well established method for improving retrieval metrics in image search applications. When using QE, the search is conducted on a new query vector, constructed using an aggregation function over the query and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Benjamin Klein , Lior Wolf

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

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

CQA services are valuable sources of knowledge that can be used to find answers to users' information needs. In these services, question retrieval aims to help users with their information needs by finding similar questions to theirs.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yasin Ghafourian , Sajad Movahedi , Azadeh Shakery

Query Expansion (QE) improves retrieval performance by enriching queries with related terms. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been used for QE, but existing methods face a trade-off: generating diverse terms boosts performance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jinseok Kim , Sukmin Cho , Soyeong Jeong , Sangyeop Kim , Sungzoon Cho
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