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Semantic approaches for query expansion: taxonomy, challenges, and future research directions
Azzah Allahim1,2, Asma Cherif1,3, Abdessamad Imine4
1IT Department, King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Peerj. Computer Science
|March 26, 2025
Summary
Semantic query expansion enhances information retrieval by providing more relevant results. This review covers recent advances (2015-2024), challenges, and future directions, favoring linguistic and ontology-based approaches for improved search.
Area of Science:
- Information Retrieval
- Natural Language Processing
- Artificial Intelligence
Background:
- Information retrieval systems struggle with the vast amount of online data.
- Query expansion techniques significantly improve search result relevance.
- Semantic query expansion offers more pertinent and practical results.
Purpose of the Study:
- To provide a comprehensive review of query expansion methods, focusing on semantic approaches.
- To overview recent semantic query expansion frameworks (2015-2024) and their limitations.
- To discuss practical challenges and identify future research directions in semantic query expansion.
Main Methods:
- Review of recent literature on query expansion, emphasizing semantic techniques.
- Analysis of frameworks developed between 2015 and 2024.
- Discussion of linguistic, ontology-based, and artificial intelligence (AI) approaches.
Main Results:
- Semantic query expansion significantly improves information retrieval.
- Linguistic approaches offer flexibility, while ontology approaches suit domain-specific applications.
- Recent advancements focus on AI and query context utilization for better results.
Conclusions:
- The linguistic approach is highly effective and flexible for semantic query expansion.
- Ontology development holds potential for domain-specific search applications.
- Future research should leverage AI and query context to optimize expanded queries.
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