Online Query Refinement on Information Retrieval Systems: A Process Model of Searcher/System Interactions.

Hsinchun Chen, Vasant Dhar: Online Query Refinement on Information Retrieval Systems: A Process Model of Searcher/System Interactions. SIGIR 1990: 115-133

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigir/ChenD90,
  author    = {Hsinchun Chen and
               Vasant Dhar},
  editor    = {Jean-Luc Vidick},
  title     = {Online Query Refinement on Information Retrieval Systems: A Process
               Model of Searcher/System Interactions},
  booktitle = {SIGIR'90, 13th International Conference on Research and Development
               in Information Retrieval, Brussels, Belgium, 5-7 September 1990,
               Proceedings},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {1990},
  isbn      = {0-89791-408-2},
  pages     = {115-133},
  ee        = {db/conf/sigir/ChenD90.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigir/90},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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This article reports findings of empirical research that investigated information searchers' online query refinement process. Prior studies have recognized the information specialists' role in helping searchers articulate and refine queries. Using a semantic network and a Problem Behavior Graph to represent the online search process, our study revealed that searchers also refined their own queries in an online task environment. The information retrieval system played a passive role in assisting online query refinement, which was, however, or that confirmed Taylor's four-level query formulation model. Based on our empirical findings, we proposed using a process model to facilitate and improve query refinement in an online environment. We believe incorporating this model into retrieval systems can result in the design of more "intelligent" and useful information retrieval systems.

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Jean-Luc Vidick (Ed.): SIGIR'90, 13th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Brussels, Belgium, 5-7 September 1990, Proceedings. ACM 1990, ISBN 0-89791-408-2
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