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The enormous growth of research publications has made it challenging for academic search engines to bring the most relevant papers against the given search query. Numerous solutions have been proposed over the years to improve the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Shah Khalid , Shah Khusro , Aftab Alam , Abdul Wahid

In this work we leverage recent advances in context-sensitive language models to improve the task of query expansion. Contextualized word representation models, such as ELMo and BERT, are rapidly replacing static embedding models. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Shahrzad Naseri , Jeffrey Dalton , Andrew Yates , James Allan

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 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

BERT-based text ranking models have dramatically advanced the state-of-the-art in ad-hoc retrieval, wherein most models tend to consider individual query-document pairs independently. In the mean time, the importance and usefulness to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Xiaoyang Chen , Kai Hui , Ben He , Xianpei Han , Le Sun , Zheng Ye

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Neural networks provide new possibilities to automatically learn complex language patterns and query-document relations. Neural IR models have achieved promising results in learning query-document relevance patterns, but few explorations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Zhuyun Dai , Jamie Callan

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

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

Modeling contextual information in a search session has drawn more and more attention when understanding complex user intents. Recent methods are all data-driven, i.e., they train different models on large-scale search log data to identify…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Haonan Chen , Zhicheng Dou , Yutao Zhu , Ji-Rong Wen

We propose a novel data augmentation method for labeled sentences called conditional BERT contextual augmentation. Data augmentation methods are often applied to prevent overfitting and improve generalization of deep neural network models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Xing Wu , Shangwen Lv , Liangjun Zang , Jizhong Han , Songlin Hu

Recently, a simple combination of passage retrieval using off-the-shelf IR techniques and a BERT reader was found to be very effective for question answering directly on Wikipedia, yielding a large improvement over the previous state of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Wei Yang , Yuqing Xie , Luchen Tan , Kun Xiong , Ming Li , Jimmy Lin

Citation recommendation systems for the scientific literature, to help authors find papers that should be cited, have the potential to speed up discoveries and uncover new routes for scientific exploration. We treat this task as a ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Rodrigo Nogueira , Zhiying Jiang , Kyunghyun Cho , Jimmy Lin
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