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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

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

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 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

This paper discusses the use of Wikipedia for building semantic ontologies to do Query Expansion (QE) in order to improve the search results of search engines. In this technique, selecting related Wikipedia concepts becomes important. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-27 D. Puspitaningrum , G. Yulianti , I. S. W. B. Prasetya

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In this paper, we propose a new method for query expansion, which uses FarsNet (Persian WordNet) to find similar tokens related to the query and expand the semantic meaning of the query. For this purpose, we use synonymy relations in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Adel Rahimi , Mohammad Bahrani

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 (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

In this work several semantic approaches to concept-based query expansion and reranking schemes are studied and compared with different ontology-based expansion methods in web document search and retrieval. In particular, we focus on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Valentina Franzoni , Yuanxi Li , Clement H. C. Leung , Alfredo Milani

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

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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