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Query rewriting (QR) is a critical technique in e-commerce search, addressing the lexical gap between user queries and product descriptions to enhance search performance. Existing QR approaches typically fall into two categories:…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Duy A. Nguyen , Rishi Kesav Mohan , Van Yang , Pritom Saha Akash , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

Frequently, users of an Information Retrieval (IR) system start with an overarching information need (a.k.a., an analytic task) and proceed to define finer-grained queries covering various important aspects (i.e., sub-topics) of that…

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Real-world path planning tasks typically involve multiple constraints beyond simple route optimization, such as the number of routes, maximum route length, depot locations, and task-specific requirements. Traditional approaches rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Dylan Shim , Minghan Wei

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external knowledge. However, LLMs still encounter challenges in effectively utilizing the knowledge from retrieved documents,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Mingyan Wu , Zhenghao Liu , Yukun Yan , Xinze Li , Shi Yu , Zheni Zeng , Yu Gu , Ge Yu

Large language models often encounter challenges with static knowledge and hallucinations, which undermine their reliability. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) mitigates these issues by incorporating external information. However, user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Zhicong Li , Jiahao Wang , Zhishu Jiang , Hangyu Mao , Zhongxia Chen , Jiazhen Du , Yuanxing Zhang , Fuzheng Zhang , Di Zhang , Yong Liu

Query rewrite is essential for optimizing SQL queries to improve their execution efficiency without changing their results. Traditionally, this task has been tackled through heuristic and learning-based methods, each with its limitations in…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Zhaoyan Sun , Xuanhe Zhou , Guoliang Li , Xiang Yu , Jianhua Feng , Yong Zhang

In the domain of digital information dissemination, search engines act as pivotal conduits linking information seekers with providers. The advent of chat-based search engines utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval Augmented…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Lijia Ma , Xingchen Xu , Yong Tan

Retrieval systems often fail when user queries differ stylistically or semantically from the language used in domain documents. Query rewriting has been proposed to bridge this gap, improving retrieval by reformulating user queries into…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiyoon Myung , Jungki Son , Kyungro Lee , Jihyeon Park , Joohyung Han

Conversational search aims to retrieve passages containing essential information to answer queries in a multi-turn conversation. In conversational search, reformulating context-dependent conversational queries into stand-alone forms is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yunah Jang , Kang-il Lee , Hyunkyung Bae , Hwanhee Lee , Kyomin Jung

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown potential in reasoning over structured environments, e.g., knowledge graph and table. Such tasks typically require multi-hop reasoning, i.e., match natural language utterance with instances in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Sitao Cheng , Ziyuan Zhuang , Yong Xu , Fangkai Yang , Chaoyun Zhang , Xiaoting Qin , Xiang Huang , Ling Chen , Qingwei Lin , Dongmei Zhang , Saravan Rajmohan , Qi Zhang

Search engines are crucial as they provide an efficient and easy way to access vast amounts of information on the internet for diverse information needs. User queries, even with a specific need, can differ significantly. Prior research has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xiaopeng Li , Lixin Su , Pengyue Jia , Xiangyu Zhao , Suqi Cheng , Junfeng Wang , Dawei Yin

Conversational query rewriting is crucial for effective conversational search, yet traditional supervised methods require substantial labeled data, which is scarce in low-resource settings. This paper introduces Prompt-Guided In-Context…

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Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various complex tasks, yet they still suffer from hallucinations. By incorporating and exploring external knowledge, such as knowledge graphs(KGs), LLM's ability to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Qi Zhao , Hongyu Yang , Qi Song , Xinwei Yao , Xiangyang Li

Conversational passage retrieval relies on question rewriting to modify the original question so that it no longer depends on the conversation history. Several methods for question rewriting have recently been proposed, but they were…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Svitlana Vakulenko , Nikos Voskarides , Zhucheng Tu , Shayne Longpre

With this work, we describe the concept of intent-based query rewriting and present a first viable solution. The aim is to allow rewrites to alter the structure and syntactic outcome of an original query while keeping the obtainable…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Gianna Lisa Nicolai , Patrick Hansert , Sebastian Michel

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance on knowledge-intensive tasks, yet they often struggle with multi-step reasoning due to the unstructured nature of retrieved context. While retrieval-augmented generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Pengcheng Jiang , Lang Cao , Ruike Zhu , Minhao Jiang , Yunyi Zhang , Jiaming Shen , Jimeng Sun , Jiawei Han

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 have explored the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA). They typically require rewriting retrieved subgraphs into natural language formats…

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We propose a novel system to help fact-checkers formulate search queries for known misinformation claims and effectively search across multiple social media platforms. We introduce an adaptable rewriting strategy, where editing actions for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Ashkan Kazemi , Artem Abzaliev , Naihao Deng , Rui Hou , Scott A. Hale , Verónica Pérez-Rosas , Rada Mihalcea

Large language models (LLMs) are incredible and versatile tools for text-based tasks that have enabled countless, previously unimaginable, applications. Retrieval models, in contrast, have not yet seen such capable general-purpose models…

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