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query expansion
query expansion (information science)Adding search terms to a user'ssearch. Query expansion is the process of a search engineadding search terms to a user's weighted search. Theintent is to improve precision and/or recall. Theadditional terms may be taken from a thesaurus. For examplea search for "car" may be expanded to: car cars auto autosautomobile automobiles.
The additional terms may also be taken from documentsthat the user has specified as being relevant; this is thebasis for the "more like this" feature of some search engines.
The extra terms can have positive or negative weights. |