Everything about Query expansion
Text query method in information retrieval
Query expansion (QE) is the process of reformulating a given query to improve retrieval performance in information retrieval operations, particularly in the context of query understanding. In the context of search engines, query expansion involves evaluating a user's input and expanding the search query to match additional documents. Query expansion involves techniques such as:Finding synonyms of words, and searching for the synonyms as well Finding semantically related words Finding all the various morphological forms of words by stemming each word in the search query Fixing spelling errors and automatically searching for the corrected form or suggesting it in the results Re-weighting the terms in the original query Wikipedia →
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- Skim a recent paper: Improving query expansion using pseudo-relevant web knowledge for information retrievalInfluential work since 2022
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- Read the landmark paper: Query expansion by mining user logsCited 200 times
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Query expansion by mining user logs
ON TERM SELECTION FOR QUERY EXPANSION
Experiments on interfaces to support query expansion
Query expansion and MEDLINE
Contextual Query Expansion for Image Retrieval
Conceptual query expansion
Combining fields for query expansion and adaptive query expansion
ON RELEVANCE WEIGHT ESTIMATION AND QUERY EXPANSION
🆕 Influential since 2022
Improving query expansion using pseudo-relevant web knowledge for information retrieval
Online Query Expansion Hashing for Efficient Image Retrieval
Query expansion – Hybrid framework using fuzzy logic and PRF
Understanding the impact of query expansion on federated search
Re-ranking vehicle re-identification with orientation-guide query expansion
đź“š Books worth reading
- 📕XenocracySakis Gekas · 2016
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