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In this paper, we propose an information retrieval framework (SE-MSLC) that utilizes information theory to improve the retrieval effectiveness of inverted index retrieval, thus achieving higher-quality retrieval results in intelligent vertical domain search engines. First, we propose a semantic entropy-driven keyword importance analysis method (SE-KIA) in the query understanding module. This method combines search query logs, the corpus of the search engine, and the theory of semantic entropy, enabling the search engine to dynamically adjust the weights of query keywords, thereby improving its ability to recognize user intent. Then, we propose a hybrid recall strategy that combines a multi-stage strategy and a logical combination strategy (HRS-MSLC) in the recall module. It separately recalls the keywords obtained from the multi-granularity word segmentation of the query in the form of multi-queue recall and simultaneously considers the \u201cAND\u201d and \u201cOR\u201d logical relationships between the keywords. By systematically managing retrieval uncertainty and giving priority to the keywords with high information content, it achieves the best balance between the quantity of the retrieval results and the relevance of the retrieval results to the query. Finally, we experimentally evaluate our methods using the Hit Rate@K and case analysis. Our results demonstrate that the proposed method improves the Hit Rate@1 by 7.3% and the Hit Rate@3 by 6.6% while effectively solving the bad cases in our vertical domain search engine.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e27090961","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,16]],"date-time":"2025-09-16T11:19:31Z","timestamp":1758021571000},"page":"961","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["SE-MSLC: Semantic Entropy-Driven Keyword Analysis and Multi-Stage Logical Combination Recall for Search Engine"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"Haihua","family":"Lu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, Guangdong University of Science and Technology, Dongguan 523083, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3388-7790","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Liang","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, Guangdong University of Science and Technology, Dongguan 523083, China"},{"name":"Guangdong AIoT Application Innovation Joint Laboratory, Guangdong University of Science and Technology, Dongguan 523083, China"},{"name":"AIoT Edge Computing Engineering Technology Research Center of Dongguan City, Guangdong University of Science and Technology, Dongguan 523083, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yantao","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, Guangdong University of Science and Technology, Dongguan 523083, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Liwei","family":"Tian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, Guangdong University of Science and Technology, Dongguan 523083, China"},{"name":"AIoT Edge Computing Engineering Technology Research Center of Dongguan City, Guangdong University of Science and Technology, Dongguan 523083, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"9459","article-title":"Retrieval-augmented generation for knowledge-intensive nlp tasks","volume":"33","author":"Lewis","year":"2020","journal-title":"Adv. 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