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  "definition": "Dividing a search query into meaningful single-token or multi-token spans, optionally with broad semantic or operational types.",
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    {
      "reason": "Query segmentation splits a short query into meaningful spans; chunking usually splits larger content into retrievable or processable units.",
      "statement": "Query Segmentation is not Chunking.",
      "target": "chunking",
      "targetLabel": "Chunking",
      "targetUri": "https://id.searchplex.net/chunking/"
    },
    {
      "reason": "Query segmentation divides the query into meaningful spans; named entity recognition identifies spans that denote entities or entity-like mentions.",
      "statement": "Query Segmentation is not Named Entity Recognition.",
      "target": "named-entity-recognition",
      "targetLabel": "Named Entity Recognition",
      "targetUri": "https://id.searchplex.net/named-entity-recognition/"
    }
  ],
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  "kind": "Task",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
  "links": [
    {
      "label": "QueryNER: Segmentation of E-commerce Queries",
      "type": "definingReference",
      "url": "https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1178/"
    }
  ],
  "modifiedAt": "2026-09-14T06:43:46Z",
  "prefLabel": "Query Segmentation",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "Searchplex",
    "url": "https://searchplex.net/"
  },
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    {
      "note": "Query segmentation splits a short query into meaningful spans; chunking usually splits larger content into retrievable or processable units.",
      "target": "chunking",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    },
    {
      "note": "Query segmentation divides the query into meaningful spans; named entity recognition identifies spans that denote entities or entity-like mentions.",
      "target": "named-entity-recognition",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    },
    {
      "target": "query-understanding",
      "type": "partOf"
    },
    {
      "target": "chunking",
      "type": "related"
    },
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      "target": "named-entity-recognition",
      "type": "related"
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  ],
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    "json": "https://id.searchplex.net/query-segmentation.json",
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  "scheme": "https://id.searchplex.net/scheme/",
  "scopeNote": "Query segmentation identifies meaningful spans in a query. It is not the same as named entity recognition, because not every useful query segment is a named entity or entity-like mention.",
  "status": "published",
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}