Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Washington State University

Xin Zhang

Yonghua Ding

Yinghui Wu

Mohammad Hossein Namaki

A query suggestion to expand an initial query is calculated whereby the cost of the expanded initial query is bounded in both time and quality. The user validates a subset of the top-n answers Q(G) to a query Q and provides adjusted configuration parameters. The top-n diversified &#x3b4;-expansion terms Q' are calculated from the validated subset of answers Q(G) to the query Q and are provided to an interactive user interface for selection. Answers Q&#x2032;(G) for the top-n diversified &#x3b4;-expansion terms Q&#x2032; are cost bounded by cost threshold &#x3b4; and exploration range r specified by the user. The user selects a new term of terms Q&#x2032; and an incremental query evaluation of the new term is invoked to compute expanded query answers Q&#x2032;(G) by incrementally updating the validated subset of answers Q(G), without re-evaluating an expanded query Q&#x2032; including the new term from scratch.

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Pullman, WA, United States of America

Xin Zhang