{
  "altLabels": [
    "Search Query Suggestion"
  ],
  "definition": "Generating and ranking related, alternative, or subsequent search queries intended to help a user continue, refine, or redirect a search.",
  "derivedRelations": [
    {
      "note": "Spelling correction proposes corrected forms of the user's query; query suggestion recommends related, alternative, or subsequent queries.",
      "target": "spelling-correction",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    }
  ],
  "distinctions": [
    {
      "reason": "Query suggestion recommends related, next, or alternative queries; query autocomplete completes the query prefix being typed.",
      "statement": "Query Suggestion is not Query Autocomplete.",
      "target": "query-autocomplete",
      "targetLabel": "Query Autocomplete",
      "targetUri": "https://id.searchplex.net/query-autocomplete/"
    },
    {
      "reason": "Query reformulation is the act or process of changing a query; query suggestion is the system task of proposing candidate queries to the user.",
      "statement": "Query Suggestion is not Query Reformulation.",
      "target": "query-reformulation",
      "targetLabel": "Query Reformulation",
      "targetUri": "https://id.searchplex.net/query-reformulation/"
    },
    {
      "reason": "Query suggestion proposes related or alternative queries; search-as-you-type updates retrieved results during query entry.",
      "statement": "Query Suggestion 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-suggestion",
  "kind": "Task",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
  "links": [
    {
      "label": "Context-aware query suggestion by mining click-through and session data",
      "type": "definingReference",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1571945"
    }
  ],
  "modifiedAt": "2026-09-14T06:43:46Z",
  "prefLabel": "Query Suggestion",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "Searchplex",
    "url": "https://searchplex.net/"
  },
  "relations": [
    {
      "note": "Query suggestion recommends related, next, or alternative queries; query autocomplete completes the query prefix being typed.",
      "target": "query-autocomplete",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    },
    {
      "note": "Query reformulation is the act or process of changing a query; query suggestion is the system task of proposing candidate queries to the user.",
      "target": "query-reformulation",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    },
    {
      "note": "Query suggestion proposes related or alternative queries; search-as-you-type updates retrieved results during query entry.",
      "target": "search-as-you-type",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    },
    {
      "note": "Often implemented as a query-assistance component near query understanding.",
      "target": "query-understanding",
      "type": "partOf"
    },
    {
      "target": "query-autocomplete",
      "type": "related"
    },
    {
      "target": "query-reformulation",
      "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-suggestion/",
    "json": "https://id.searchplex.net/query-suggestion.json",
    "jsonld": "https://id.searchplex.net/query-suggestion.jsonld"
  },
  "scheme": "https://id.searchplex.net/scheme/",
  "scopeNote": "Query suggestion may use query logs, session context, click behavior, current results, or user context. It is distinct from query autocomplete, which completes a partially typed prefix.",
  "status": "published",
  "terms": [
    {
      "community": "industry",
      "label": "Recommended Searches",
      "usage": "nearSynonym"
    }
  ],
  "uri": "https://id.searchplex.net/query-suggestion/"
}