Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion

I. Ruthven

doi:10.1145/860435.860475

Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion

I. Ruthven

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Abstract

Much attention has been paid to the relative effectiveness of interactive query expansion versus automatic query expansion. Although interactive query expansion has the potential to be an effective means of improving a search, in this paper we show that, on average, human searchers are less likely than systems to make good expansion decisions. To enable good expansion decisions, searchers must have adequate instructions on how to use interactive query expansion functionalities. We show that simple instructions on using interactive query expansion do not necessarily help searchers make good expansion decisions and discuss difficulties found in making query expansion decisions.

Original language	English
Pages	213-220
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/860435.860475
Publication status	Published - 2003
Event	26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval - Toronto, Canada Duration: 28 Jul 2003 → 1 Aug 2003

Conference

Conference	26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Abbreviated title	SIGIR 2003
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto
Period	28/07/03 → 1/08/03

Keywords

query expansion
information retrieval
web searching
search engines

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