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Query Expansion (QE) enriches queries and Document Expansion (DE) enriches documents, and these two techniques are often applied separately. However, such separate application may lead to semantic misalignment between the expanded queries…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yu Yang , Feng Tian , Ping Chen

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 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

Query expansion (QE) enhances retrieval by incorporating relevant terms, with large language models (LLMs) offering an effective alternative to traditional rule-based and statistical methods. However, LLM-based QE suffers from a fundamental…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Kenya Abe , Kunihiro Takeoka , Makoto P. Kato , Masafumi Oyamada

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

In the field of information retrieval, query expansion (QE) has long been used as a technique to deal with the fundamental issue of word mismatch between a user's query and the target information. In the context of the relationship between…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Hiteshwar Kumar Azad , Akshay Deepak

Community question-answering (CQA) platforms have become very popular forums for asking and answering questions daily. While these forums are rich repositories of community knowledge, they present challenges for finding relevant answers and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman , Sorami Hisamoto , Kevin Duh

Choosing the right terms to describe an information need is becoming more difficult as the amount of available information increases. Search-Term-Recommendation (STR) systems can help to overcome these problems. This paper evaluates the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Thomas Lüke , Philipp Schaer , Philipp Mayr

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

In this paper a framework for Automatic Query Expansion (AQE) is proposed using distributed neural language model word2vec. Using semantic and contextual relation in a distributed and unsupervised framework, word2vec learns a low…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Dwaipayan Roy , Debjyoti Paul , Mandar Mitra , Utpal Garain

Query Expansion using Pseudo Relevance Feedback is a useful and a popular technique for reformulating the query. In our proposed query expansion method, we assume that relevant information can be found within a document near the central…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-02-19 Rekha Vaidyanathan , Sujoy Das , Namita Srivastava

Using sequence to sequence algorithms for query expansion has not been explored yet in Information Retrieval literature nor in Question-Answering's. We tried to fill this gap in the literature with a custom Query Expansion engine trained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Salah Zaiem , Fatiha Sadat

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 search for relevant information can be very frustrating for users who, unintentionally, use too general or inappropriate keywords to express their requests. To overcome this situation, query expansion techniques aim at transforming the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Joan Guisado-Gámez , Arnau Prat-Pérez , Josep Lluís Larriba-Pey

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

This paper presents an original way to add new data in a reference dictionary from several other lexical resources, without loosing any consistence. This operation is carried in order to get lexical information classified by the sense of…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Bernard Jacquemin

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

Recent studies demonstrate that query expansions generated by large language models (LLMs) can considerably enhance information retrieval systems by generating hypothetical documents that answer the queries as expansions. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yibin Lei , Yu Cao , Tianyi Zhou , Tao Shen , Andrew Yates

Query auto completion (QAC) systems are a standard part of search engines in industry, helping users formulate their query. Such systems update their suggestions after the user types each character, predicting the user's intent using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Nicolas Fiorini , Zhiyong Lu

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