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query expansion: a standalone construct

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Information retrieval

adding related terms to a user's original query so that the search can match relevant documents that use different words.

In information retrieval, query expansion refers to adding related terms to a user's original query so that the search can match relevant documents that use different words. This meaning comes from Carpineto (2012) in ACM Computing Surveys.[1]

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References

Carpineto, C., & Romano, G. (2012). A Survey of Automatic Query Expansion in Information Retrieval. ACM Computing Surveys, 44(1), 1-50. https://doi.org/10.1145/2071389.2071390

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