Talk:Automatic query reformulation

This should be moved into the topic query expansion. Josh Froelich 17:23, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

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Automatic Query Reformulation is a method employed in search engines (like Google, Yahoo!) to find results to a users query, by reformulating a query closely matching the original one keyed in by the user.

Automatic query reformulation tries to solve the problem of returning no matches, for search engine queries, even when there is a problem with the spelling, context or classification of the query terms.

Example: "space shuttle columbya" would place the context of the search in NASA space programs, and classify it as a space mission. Then the search engine can reformulate the query to "space shuttle columbia", so the results make sense in this specific context & classification.