RACQC: Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Chinese Query Correction

AbstractIn web search scenarios, erroneous queries frequently degrade users’ experience through irrelevant results, underscoring the pivotal role of Chinese Spelling Check (CSC) systems. Although large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities across many tasks, they face critical challenges in the CSC scenario: (1) poor generalization to rare entities in open-domain searches, and (2) failure to adapt to temporal entity variations due to static parameters, resulting in serious over-correction issues. To tackle this, we present RACQC, a **C**hinese **Q**uery **C**orrection system with **R**etrieval-**A**ugmented Generation(RAG) and multi-task learning. Specifically, our approach (1) integrates dynamic knowledge retrieval through entity-centric RAG to address rare entities and innovatively proposes an entity-title collaborative corpus, and (2) employs contrastive correction tasks to mitigate LLM over-correction tendencies. Furthermore, we propose MDCQC, a **M**ulti-**D**omain **C**hinese **Q**uery **C**orrection benchmark to test the model’s entity correction capabilities. Extensive experiments on several datasets show that RACQC significantly outperforms existing baselines in CSC tasks. Specifically, RACQC achieves a maximum improvement of +9.92% on the search scenario benchmark and +3.2% on the general-domain dataset under the F1 metric.