Untangling the concept of task in information seeking and retrieval

Ayah Soufan; Ian Ruthven; Leif Azzopardi

doi:10.1145/3471158.3472259

Untangling the concept of task in information seeking and retrieval

Ayah Soufan, Ian Ruthven, Leif Azzopardi

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Abstract

Many researchers have pointed to tasks as being the driving force for Information Seeking and Retrieval (ISR). Unfortunately, researchers do not agree on what is meant by tasks and related concepts such as activities and search tasks. Researchers often use different terminologies to describe the same concepts or use the same terms to refer to different concepts. Moreover, previous researchers ignored work roles and their effect on tasks. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to present some of the main competing task hierarchies by conducting a literature analysis in the field of ISR, management, work structure, and human resources. A specific contribution is to use key existing (explicit or implicit) hierarchies and frameworks of tasks into an integrated taxonomy of tasks and related concepts for use by researchers in ISR.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICTIR 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval
Place of Publication	New York, NY.
Pages	73–81
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450386111
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3471158.3472259
Publication status	Published - 11 Jul 2021
Event	The 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval - Duration: 11 Jul 2021 → …

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Conference	The 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
Abbreviated title	ICTIR '21
Period	11/07/21 → …

Keywords

task
activity
work role
Information Seeking and Retrieval
ISR

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DoSSIER: Domain Specific Systems for Information, Extraction and Retrieval (H2020 MSCA)
Azzopardi, L. (Principal Investigator), Halvey, M. (Co-investigator) & Ruthven, I. (Co-investigator)
European Commission - Horizon Europe + H2020
1/11/19 → 31/10/23
Project: Research

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Soufan, A , Ruthven, I & Azzopardi, L 2021, Untangling the concept of task in information seeking and retrieval. in ICTIR 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval. New York, NY., pp. 73–81, The 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 11/07/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3471158.3472259

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