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Query expansion

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 (what words were typed into the search query area, and sometimes other types of…

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OntologyRelevance feedbackPseudo-relevance feedbackLanguage modelWord embeddings
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Query expansion

Nodes35
Edges34
Triples82
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.057143
Components1

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related to Sources · 53
Query expansion → Abberley, Academic, ACM International Conference, ACM Press, Adaptive Text Extraction, An, An Analysis, Annual Review, Archived, ARIST, ATEM, Cambridge, Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Concept Based Query Expansion, Concise, Croatia, Development, ECML, Efthimiadis, ESCA ETRW Workshop Accessing
has method · 13
Query expansion → Another, Automatic, Kuhns, Maron, Modern, More, PRF, Pseudo-relevance, Pseudo-relevant, Rocchio, Since, The, This
related to Software libraries · 9
Query expansion → Apache Lucene, Java, LucQE, Machine, Provides, Python, QueryTermAnalyzer Archived, Wayback Machine, Xapian
related to Precision and recall trade-offs · 6
Query expansion → Best, By, Furthermore, It, Search, This
is a · 1
Query expansion → representation of index and query terms in a vector space which can be used to find related terms at query time

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Query expansionis arepresentation of index and query terms in a vector space which can be used to find related terms at query time0.90text
Query expansionhas methodAutomatic0.60section
Query expansionhas methodMaron0.60section
Query expansionhas methodKuhns0.60section
Query expansionhas methodModern0.60section
Query expansionhas methodThe0.60section
Query expansionhas methodRocchio0.60section
Query expansionhas methodSince0.60section
Query expansionhas methodThis0.60section
Query expansionhas methodPRF0.60section
Query expansionhas methodPseudo-relevance0.60section
Query expansionhas methodPseudo-relevant0.60section

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