EviQE: Evidence Selection for LLM-Based Query Expansion

Hai Son Le, Amin Bigdeli, Shirin Seyedsalehi, Morteza Zihayat, Ebrahim Bagheri
January 2026
Type
Conference paper
Publication
Proceedings of the 35th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (Short Paper)
Information Retrieval Query Expansion Large Language Models Evidence Selection
Hai Son Le
Hai Son Le
Master’s Student

Hai Son Le is a Master’s student in the Human-Centered Machine Intelligence Lab, working on research projects in machine learning and data science.

Shirin Seyedsalehi
PhD Student (Alumni)

Shirin Seyedsalehi is a former PhD student and alumna of the Human-Centered Machine Intelligence Lab.

Morteza Zihayat
Morteza Zihayat
Principal Investigator

Dr. Morteza Zihayat is a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Human-Centered AI and Associate Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science. He also holds appointments as Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo (Management Sciences) and IBM Faculty Fellow at IBM Centre for Advanced Studies. He is the Director of the Human-Centered Machine Intelligence Lab.