Query assistant system based on academic synonym ring

Synonym ring is the most important method to do query expansion in information retrieval area. But most research on synonym ring remain on the algorithm level. This paper introduces a query assistant system based on academic synonym ring named “Academic Query Assistant” (AQA), which can be applied for other systems such as search engines. By the one and a half years of actual running, the results show that AQA can effectively help users to do query expansion.