QueryExplorer: An Interactive Query Generation Assistant for Search and Exploration

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Main Authors: Dhole, Kaustubh D., Bajaj, Shivam, Chandradevan, Ramraj, Agichtein, Eugene
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Published: 2024
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author Dhole, Kaustubh D.
Bajaj, Shivam
Chandradevan, Ramraj
Agichtein, Eugene
author_facet Dhole, Kaustubh D.
Bajaj, Shivam
Chandradevan, Ramraj
Agichtein, Eugene
contents Formulating effective search queries remains a challenging task, particularly when users lack expertise in a specific domain or are not proficient in the language of the content. Providing example documents of interest might be easier for a user. However, such query-by-example scenarios are prone to concept drift, and the retrieval effectiveness is highly sensitive to the query generation method, without a clear way to incorporate user feedback. To enable exploration and to support Human-In-The-Loop experiments we propose QueryExplorer -- an interactive query generation, reformulation, and retrieval interface with support for HuggingFace generation models and PyTerrier's retrieval pipelines and datasets, and extensive logging of human feedback. To allow users to create and modify effective queries, our demo supports complementary approaches of using LLMs interactively, assisting the user with edits and feedback at multiple stages of the query formulation process. With support for recording fine-grained interactions and user annotations, QueryExplorer can serve as a valuable experimental and research platform for annotation, qualitative evaluation, and conducting Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) experiments for complex search tasks where users struggle to formulate queries.
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spellingShingle QueryExplorer: An Interactive Query Generation Assistant for Search and Exploration
Dhole, Kaustubh D.
Bajaj, Shivam
Chandradevan, Ramraj
Agichtein, Eugene
Information Retrieval
Formulating effective search queries remains a challenging task, particularly when users lack expertise in a specific domain or are not proficient in the language of the content. Providing example documents of interest might be easier for a user. However, such query-by-example scenarios are prone to concept drift, and the retrieval effectiveness is highly sensitive to the query generation method, without a clear way to incorporate user feedback. To enable exploration and to support Human-In-The-Loop experiments we propose QueryExplorer -- an interactive query generation, reformulation, and retrieval interface with support for HuggingFace generation models and PyTerrier's retrieval pipelines and datasets, and extensive logging of human feedback. To allow users to create and modify effective queries, our demo supports complementary approaches of using LLMs interactively, assisting the user with edits and feedback at multiple stages of the query formulation process. With support for recording fine-grained interactions and user annotations, QueryExplorer can serve as a valuable experimental and research platform for annotation, qualitative evaluation, and conducting Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) experiments for complex search tasks where users struggle to formulate queries.
title QueryExplorer: An Interactive Query Generation Assistant for Search and Exploration
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15667