{
  "altLabels": [
    "Query Auto Completion",
    "QAC"
  ],
  "definition": "Predicting and ranking complete search queries from a partially typed query prefix.",
  "derivedRelations": [
    {
      "note": "Spelling correction corrects a submitted or completed query; query autocomplete predicts completions from a partially typed prefix.",
      "target": "spelling-correction",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    }
  ],
  "distinctions": [
    {
      "reason": "Query autocomplete completes a typed prefix; query suggestion recommends related, next, or alternative queries and need not be prefix-completion.",
      "statement": "Query Autocomplete is not Query Suggestion.",
      "target": "query-suggestion",
      "targetLabel": "Query Suggestion",
      "targetUri": "https://id.searchplex.net/query-suggestion/"
    },
    {
      "reason": "Query autocomplete proposes completions for a query prefix; search-as-you-type updates actual search results while the user types.",
      "statement": "Query Autocomplete is not Search-as-You-Type.",
      "target": "search-as-you-type",
      "targetLabel": "Search-as-You-Type",
      "targetUri": "https://id.searchplex.net/search-as-you-type/"
    }
  ],
  "id": "query-autocomplete",
  "kind": "Task",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
  "links": [
    {
      "label": "AmazonQAC: A Large-Scale, Naturalistic Query Autocomplete Dataset",
      "type": "definingReference",
      "url": "https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-industry.78/"
    }
  ],
  "modifiedAt": "2026-09-14T06:43:46Z",
  "prefLabel": "Query Autocomplete",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "Searchplex",
    "url": "https://searchplex.net/"
  },
  "relations": [
    {
      "note": "Query autocomplete completes a typed prefix; query suggestion recommends related, next, or alternative queries and need not be prefix-completion.",
      "target": "query-suggestion",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    },
    {
      "note": "Query autocomplete proposes completions for a query prefix; search-as-you-type updates actual search results while the user types.",
      "target": "search-as-you-type",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    },
    {
      "note": "Often implemented near query understanding and query assistance components.",
      "target": "query-understanding",
      "type": "partOf"
    },
    {
      "target": "query-suggestion",
      "type": "related"
    },
    {
      "target": "search-as-you-type",
      "type": "related"
    },
    {
      "target": "session-search",
      "type": "related"
    },
    {
      "target": "spelling-correction",
      "type": "related"
    }
  ],
  "representations": {
    "html": "https://id.searchplex.net/query-autocomplete/",
    "json": "https://id.searchplex.net/query-autocomplete.json",
    "jsonld": "https://id.searchplex.net/query-autocomplete.jsonld"
  },
  "scheme": "https://id.searchplex.net/scheme/",
  "scopeNote": "Query autocomplete is prefix-conditioned: the user has begun typing a query and the system proposes likely completions. It is distinct from query suggestion, which may recommend related or subsequent queries without being limited to completing a current prefix.",
  "slugAliases": [
    "qac"
  ],
  "status": "published",
  "terms": [
    {
      "community": "industry",
      "label": "Typeahead",
      "usage": "nearSynonym"
    },
    {
      "community": "industry",
      "label": "Search Autocomplete",
      "usage": "nearSynonym"
    }
  ],
  "uri": "https://id.searchplex.net/query-autocomplete/"
}