From translation to navigation of different discourses: A model of search term selection during the pre‐online stage of the search process

Iivonen, Mirja; Sonnenwald, Diane H.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(19980401)49:4<312::aid-asi3>3.3.co;2-e

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“…In order to achieve that, the standard practice of designing reasonable clear tasks that make sense and have an answer somewhere on the Internet should probably be reconsidered in favor of less common terminology. The definition of the concept “a good keyword” is usually vague to searchers (e.g., Iivonen & Sonnenwald, ; White & Iivonen, ), but in this study a “good keyword” is both a keyword that proved to have a match with a certain web page and a keyword with which the searcher was comfortable and well familiar. It is a paradox, but well‐phrased tasks, regardless of their origins and format (written or oral), seem to be limiting the creativity of the searchers.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…(), who found that searchers exhibit preference for adjectives and nouns. The reliance on the original task phrasing was observed by many researchers (e.g., Barsky & Bar‐Ilan, ; Colaric, ; Hsieh‐Yee, ; Freund & Toms, ; Iivonen & Sonnenwald, ; Kim, ; Spink & Saracevic, ; Suomela & Kekäläinen, ; Xu & Liu, ). At the same time, it was demonstrated that the topics “Children” and “Online spending” resulted in a higher number of unique keywords, probably because they are less vague, well defined, and better covered and understood by searchers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Earlier studies were designed in the traditional IR systems. In the study by Iivonen and Sonnenwald (), 24 professional searchers received 12 tasks phrased by clients. While analyzing the pre‐online keyword selection process, the authors noticed that searchers sometimes used the vocabulary provided by clients, even if they did not consider the keywords to be good.…”

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The impact of task phrasing on the choice of search keywords and on the search process and success

Barsky¹,

Bar‐Ilan

2012

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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This experiment studied the impact of various task phrasings on the search process. Eighty-eight searchers performed four web search tasks prescribed by the researchers. Each task was linked to an existing target web page, containing a piece of text that served as the basis for the task. A matching phrasing was a task whose wording matched the text of the target page. A nonmatching phrasing was synonymous with the matching phrasing, but had no match with the target page. Searchers received tasks for both types in English and in Hebrew. The search process was logged. The findings confirm that task phrasing shapes the search process and outcome, and also user satisfaction. Each search stage-retrieval of the target page, visiting the target page, and finding the target answer-was associated with different phenomena; for example, target page retrieval was negatively affected by persistence in search patterns (e.g., use of phrases), user-originated keywords, shorter queries, and omitting key keywords from the queries. Searchers were easily driven away from the top-ranked target pages by lower-ranked pages with title tags matching the queries. Some searchers created consistently longer queries than other searchers, regardless of the task length. Several consistent behavior patterns that characterized the Hebrew language were uncovered, including the use of keyword modifications (replacing infinitive forms with nouns), omitting prefixes and articles, and preferences for the common language. The success self-assessment also depended on whether the wording of the answer matched the task phrasing.

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confidence: 99%

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The impact of task phrasing on the choice of search keywords and on the search process and success

Barsky¹,

Bar‐Ilan

2012

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“…True, I have no evidence that the users of library catalogs are able to employ the same resources. However, Iivonen and Sonnenwald (1998) offer evidence that professional information intermediaries use a similar strategy for identifying terms to perform queries in databases. In their research into the sources of search terms Iivonen and Sonnenwald have found that six discourses (common ground areas) have been used: Controlled vocabularies The documents and domain Indexing practice Clients' search requests Databases Searchers' previous experiences. …”

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Catalogers' common ground and shared knowledge

Šauperl

2003

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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On the other hand, they make every effort to build common ground with catalog users by studying documents related to the document being cataloged, and by considering catalog records and subject headings related to the subject identified in the document being cataloged. They try to build common ground with other catalogers by using cataloging tools and by inferring unstated rules of cataloging from examples in the catalogs.

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“…Information retrieval performance is usually measured by considering to what degree documents relevant to the searcher are moved toward the front of the ordered list of documents. We refer the reader to other works that discuss more fully the issues associated with relevance (Iivonen & Sonnenwald, 1998; Ingwersen, 1996; Schamber, 1994; Sperber & Wilson, 1995; Tang & Solomon, 1998). Most measures depend on documents being assigned a binary relevance judgment.…”

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When information retrieval measures agree about the relative quality of document rankings

Losee

2000

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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The variety of performance measures available for information retrieval systems, search engines, and network filtering agents can be confusing to both practitioners and scholars. Most discussions about these measures address their theoretical foundations and the characteristics of a measure that make it desirable for a particular application. In this work, we consider how measures of performance at a point in a search may be formally compared. Criteria are developed that allow one to determine the percent of time or conditions under which two different performance measures suggest that one document ordering is superior to another ordering, or when the two measures disagree about the relative value of document orderings. As an example, graphs provide illustrations of the relationships between precision and F.

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From translation to navigation of different discourses: A model of search term selection during the pre‐online stage of the search process

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

The impact of task phrasing on the choice of search keywords and on the search process and success

The impact of task phrasing on the choice of search keywords and on the search process and success

Catalogers' common ground and shared knowledge

When information retrieval measures agree about the relative quality of document rankings

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