Query Expansion

Query Expansion is a query modification technique in information retrieval that enhances retrieval performance by augmenting the original user query with semantically related terms, such as synonyms or conceptually associated words, to improve recall and account for lexical mismatches between queries and documents.

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2017–2026

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  1. WB
    W. Bruce Croft

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

    33 publications · 5.5K citations

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  2. JN
    Jian‐Yun Nie

    Université de Montréal, Canada

    21 publications · 1.9K citations

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  3. JA
    James Allan

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

    17 publications · 1.5K citations

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  4. IO
    Iadh Ounis

    University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

    20 publications · 1.3K citations

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  5. JC
    Jamie Callan

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    15 publications · 943 citations

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  1. Information Processing & Management

    76 publications · 4K citations

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  2. Information Retrieval

    23 publications · 1.1K citations

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  3. 17

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  4. ACM Transactions on Information Systems

    17 publications · 1.6K citations

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  5. Text REtrieval Conference

    Conference · 24 publications · 2.8K citations

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