The effects on topic familiarity on online search behaviour and use of relevance criteria

L. Wen; I. Ruthven; P. Borlund; M. Lalmas

doi:10.1007/11735106_40

The effects on topic familiarity on online search behaviour and use of relevance criteria

L. Wen, I. Ruthven, P. Borlund, M. Lalmas (Editor)

Computer And Information Sciences

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Abstract

This paper presents an experimental study on the effect of topic familiarity on the assessment behaviour of online searchers. In particular we investigate the effect of topic familiarity on the resources and relevance criteria used by searchers. Our results indicate that searching on an unfamiliar topic leads to use of more generic and fewer specialised resources and that searchers employ different relevance criteria when searching on less familiar topics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Information Retrieval: Proceedings of the 28th European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006)
Publisher	Springer
Pages	456-459
Number of pages	3
Volume	3936
ISBN (Print)	9783540333470
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/11735106_40
Publication status	Published - 2006

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer

Keywords

online searching
topic familiarity
searching
search algorithms
relevance ranking

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Wen, L., Ruthven, I., Borlund, P., & Lalmas, M. (Ed.) (2006). The effects on topic familiarity on online search behaviour and use of relevance criteria. In Advances in Information Retrieval: Proceedings of the 28th European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006) (Vol. 3936, pp. 456-459). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/11735106_40

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Wen, L, Ruthven, I, Borlund, P & Lalmas, M (ed.) 2006, The effects on topic familiarity on online search behaviour and use of relevance criteria. in Advances in Information Retrieval: Proceedings of the 28th European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006). vol. 3936, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 456-459. https://doi.org/10.1007/11735106_40

The effects on topic familiarity on online search behaviour and use of relevance criteria. / Wen, L.; Ruthven, I.; Borlund, P.; Lalmas, M. (Editor).

Advances in Information Retrieval: Proceedings of the 28th European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006). Vol. 3936 Springer, 2006. p. 456-459 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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