Confidence as part of searcher's cognitive context

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Abstract

A growing body of interdisciplinary NeuraSearch research in the Information Retrieval (IR) domain, built on the investigations evaluating searchers' neurophysiological activity captured during the information search interactions, advances the understanding of the searchers' cognitive context. Regarding the searchers' information needs, the cognitive context represents the surroundings of a knowledge anomaly perceived in their state of knowledge. Memory retrieval is a fundamental mechanism that drives the users' informativeness about their knowledge and knowledge gaps. Moreover, the confidence perceptions manifest the quality and attribute of the users’ memories and could be, thus, used as a sign of the quality of memories aiding the user to appraise their knowledge abilities. We used the methodology of NeuraSearch to reduce the cognitive burden commonly in traditional IR scenarios posed to the users to understand and interpret their subjective perceptions and feelings. We investigated the patterns of spatio-temporal brain activity (captured by EEG) in 24 neurologically-healthy volunteers engaged in textual general knowledge Question Answering (Q/A) Task. We looked for i) the evidence of functional processes leading to descriptive (factual) knowledge memory retrieval and ii) their interaction effects incorporating retrospective confidence judgments. Our investigation raises further questions informing research in IR and the area of user information seeking.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMachine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science - 8th International Conference, LOD 2022, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsGiuseppe Nicosia, Giovanni Giuffrida, Varun Ojha, Emanuele La Malfa, Gabriele La Malfa, Panos Pardalos, Giuseppe Di Fatta, Renato Umeton
Pages510-524
Number of pages15
Volume13811
ISBN (Electronic)9783031258916
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Mar 2023
Event8th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science, LOD 2022, held in conjunction with the 2nd Advanced Course and Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, ACAIN 2022 - Certosa di Pontignano, Italy
Duration: 18 Sept 202222 Sept 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13811 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science, LOD 2022, held in conjunction with the 2nd Advanced Course and Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, ACAIN 2022
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityCertosa di Pontignano
Period18/09/2222/09/22

Keywords

  • anomalous state of knowledge (ASK)
  • confidence
  • EEG
  • ERP
  • information need
  • Information retrieval
  • Information search
  • memory retrieval
  • NeuraSearch
  • proactive information retrieval

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