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Same query - different results? A study of repeat queries in search sessions

Leveling, Johannes ORCID: 0000-0003-0603-4191 and Jones, Gareth J.F. ORCID: 0000-0003-2923-8365 (2011) Same query - different results? A study of repeat queries in search sessions. In: The Evaluating Personal Search Workshop at ECIR 2011, 18-21 April 2011, Dublin, Ireland,.

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Abstract

Typically, three main query reformulation types in sessions are considered: generalization, specication, and drift. We show that given the full context of user interactions, repeat queries represent an important reformulation type which should also be addressed in session retrieval evaluation. We investigate dierent query reformulation patterns in logs from The European Library. Using an automatic classification for query reformulations, we found that the most frequent (and presumably the most important) reformulation pattern corresponds to repeat queries. We aim to nd possible explanations for repeat queries in sessions and try to uncover implications for session retrieval evaluation.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Workshop
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:query reformulations; relevance; context
Subjects:Computer Science > Information retrieval
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Initiatives and Centres > Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL)
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:16393
Deposited On:29 Jun 2011 14:00 by Shane Harper . Last Modified 25 Oct 2018 10:19

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