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Query Auto-Completion(QAC), as an important part of the modern search engine, plays a key role in complementing user queries and helping them refine their search intentions.Today's QAC systems in real-world scenarios face two major…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Wei Bao , Mi Zhang , Tao Zhang , Chengfu Huo

Query Auto Completion (QAC), as the starting point of information retrieval tasks, is critical to user experience. Generally it has two steps: generating completed query candidates according to query prefixes, and ranking them based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Sida Wang , Weiwei Guo , Huiji Gao , Bo Long

Query Auto-Completion (QAC) is a widely used feature in many domains, including web and eCommerce search, suggesting full queries based on a prefix typed by the user. QAC has been extensively studied in the literature in the recent years,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Manojkumar Rangasamy Kannadasan , Grigor Aslanyan

Query Auto Completion (QAC) is among the most appealing features of a web search engine. It helps users formulate queries quickly with less effort. Although there has been much effort in this area for text, to the best of our knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Shaurya Rohatgi , Wei Zhong , Richard Zanibbi , Jian Wu , C. Lee Giles

Query auto-completion (QAC) is a fundamental feature in search engines where the task is to suggest plausible completions of a prefix typed in the search bar. Previous queries in the user session can provide useful context for the user's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Nishant Yadav , Rajat Sen , Daniel N. Hill , Arya Mazumdar , Inderjit S. Dhillon

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

Query Autocomplete (QAC) is a critical feature in modern search engines, facilitating user interaction by predicting search queries based on input prefixes. Despite its widespread adoption, the absence of large-scale, realistic datasets has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Dante Everaert , Rohit Patki , Tianqi Zheng , Christopher Potts

Query autocomplete (QAC) also known as typeahead, suggests list of complete queries as user types prefix in the search box. It is one of the key features of modern search engines specially in e-commerce. One of the goals of typeahead is to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Prateek Verma , Shan Zhong , Xiaoyu Liu , Adithya Rajan

Query auto-completion (QAC) plays a crucial role in modern search systems. However, in real-world applications, there are two pressing challenges that still need to be addressed. First, there is a need for hierarchical personalized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Zhibo Wang , Xiaoze Jiang , Zhiheng Qin , Enyun Yu , Han Li

Query Auto-Completion (QAC) suggests query completions as users type, helping them articulate intent and reach results more efficiently. Existing approaches face fundamental challenges: traditional retrieve-and-rank pipelines have limited…

Assisting users by suggesting completed queries as they type is a common feature of search systems known as query auto-completion. A query auto-completion engine may use prior signals and available information (e.g., user is anonymous, user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Audrey Durand , Jean-Alexandre Beaumont , Christian Gagne , Michel Lemay , Sebastien Paquet

Query auto-completion (QAC) has been widely studied in the context of web search, yet remains underexplored for in-document search, which we term DocQAC. DocQAC aims to enhance search productivity within long documents by helping users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Rahul Mehta , Kavin R , Indrajit Pal , Tushar Abhishek , Pawan Goyal , Manish Gupta

Conventional methods for query autocompletion aim to predict which completed query a user will select from a list. A shortcoming of this approach is that users often do not know which query will provide the best retrieval performance on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Adam Block , Rahul Kidambi , Daniel N. Hill , Thorsten Joachims , Inderjit S. Dhillon

Query autocompletions help users of search engines to speed up their searches by recommending completions of partially typed queries in a drop down box. These recommended query autocompletions are usually based on large logs of queries that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Djoerd Hiemstra

Query auto-completion is a search engine feature whereby the system suggests completed queries as the user types. Recently, the use of a recurrent neural network language model was suggested as a method of generating query completions. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Aaron Jaech , Mari Ostendorf

In ecommerce search, query autocomplete plays a critical role to help users in their shopping journey. Often times, query autocomplete presents users with semantically similar queries, which can impede the user's ability to find diverse and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Adithya Rajan , Weiqi Tong , Greg Sharp , Prateek Verma , Kevin Li

Query auto-completion (QAC) aims to suggest plausible completions for a given query prefix. Traditionally, QAC systems have leveraged tries curated from historical query logs to suggest most popular completions. In this context, there are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Kaushal Kumar Maurya , Maunendra Sankar Desarkar , Manish Gupta , Puneet Agrawal

Current neural query auto-completion (QAC) systems rely on character-level language models, but they slow down when queries are long. We present how to utilize subword language models for the fast and accurate generation of query completion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Gyuwan Kim

Question Answering (QA) is increasingly used by search engines to provide results to their end-users, yet very few websites currently use QA technologies for their search functionality. To illustrate the potential of QA technologies for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Kunpeng Guo , Clement Defretiere , Dennis Diefenbach , Christophe Gravier , Antoine Gourru

This study introduces Query Attribute Modeling (QAM), a hybrid framework that enhances search precision and relevance by decomposing open text queries into structured metadata tags and semantic elements. QAM addresses traditional search…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Karthik Menon , Batool Arhamna Haider , Muhammad Arham , Kanwal Mehreen , Ram Mohan Rao Kadiyala , Hamza Farooq
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