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query drift: a standalone construct

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the shift of an expanded query away from the user's original topic when feedback documents bring in unrelated terms.

In information retrieval, query drift refers to the shift of an expanded query away from the user's original topic when feedback documents bring in unrelated terms. This meaning comes from Mitra (1998) in Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval.[1]

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  1. Mitra, M., Singhal, A., & Buckley, C. (1998). Improving automatic query expansion. Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290995

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