Heuristics for online information retrieval: a typology and preliminary listing

Harter, Stephen P.; Peters, Anne Rogers

doi:10.1108/eb024194

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“…Oldroyd and Citroen (1977), Bates (1979a,b), Schroder (1983), Fidel (1985, Harter and Peters (1985), and many textbooks have provided long lists of advice or "tips" on how to conduct a search. Tactics that seemed promising in describing the search process were adopted, mainly from Bates's article (1979b), and their frequency was checked in 10 pretests conducted in June of 1989.…”

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Effects of search experience and subject knowledge on the search tactics of novice and experienced searchers

Hsieh-Yee

1993

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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This study investigated the effects of subject knowledge and search experience on novices' and experienced searchers' use of search tactics in online searches. Novice and experienced searchers searched a practice question and two test questions in the ERIC database on the DIALOG system and their use of search tactics were recorded by protocols, transaction logs, and observation. Search tactics were identified from the literature and verified in 10 pretests, and nine search tactics variables were operationalized to describe the differences between the two searcher groups. Data analyses showed that subject knowledge interacted with search experience , and both variables affected searchers' behavior in four ways: (1) when questions in their subject areas were searched, experience affected searchers' use of synonymous terms, monitoring of the search process, and combinations of search terms; (2) when questions outside their subject areas were searched, experience affected searchers' reliance on their own terminology, use of the thesaurus , offline term selection, use of synonymous terms, and combinations of search terms; (3) within the same experience group, subject knowledge had no effect on novice searchers; but (4) subject knowledge affected experienced searcher's reliance on their own language, use of the thesaurus, off-line term selection, use of synonymous terms, monitoring of the search, and combinations of search terms. The results showed that search experience affected searchers' use of many search tactics, and suggested that subject knowledge became a factor only after searchers have had a certain amount of search experience. 0

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Section: Variables Defined and Operationalizedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of search experience and subject knowledge on the search tactics of novice and experienced searchers

Hsieh-Yee

1993

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

290

195

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“…A useful set of general heuristics for the intermediary was assembled by Harter and Peters ( 1985). The thesaurus is seen as a means to identify variant forms of index terms, and as a source of new terms during the process of "concept formulation" (or reformulation when the original query is unsuccessful).…”

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Interactive thesaurus navigation: Intelligence rules OK?

Jones¹,

Gatford²,

Robertson³

et al. 1995

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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We discuss whether it is feasible to build intelligent ruleor weight-based algorithms into general-purpose software for interactive thesaurus navigation. We survey some approaches to the problem reported in the literature, particularly those involving the assignment of "link weights" in a thesaurus network, and point out some problems of both principle and practice. We then describe investigations which entailed logging the behavior of thesaurus users and testing the effect of thesaurus-based query enhancement in an IR system using term weighting, in an attempt to identify successful strategies to incorporate into automatic procedures. The results cause us to question many of the assumptions made by previous researchers in this area.

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“…Die bereitgestellten Vorschläge stammen größtenteils aus der Literatur [3,5,15,16]. Dazu wurden auch Vorschlä-ge aufgenommen, die spezifische Probleme adressieren, die bei früheren Evaluationen des DAFFODIL-Systems beobachtet wurden [22,35].…”

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Interaktives Retrieval und situationsabhängige Vorschläge

Kriewel

2011

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ZusammenfassungIn diesem Artikel wird beschrieben, wie ein adaptives Vorschlagssystem für Suchstrategien Interaktives Retrieval unterstützen kann. Ein Benutzerexperiment mit 24 Teilnehmern zeigte, dass ein solches System Suchenden hilft, erfolgreichere Strategien einzusetzen, als Suchende ohne Unterstützung. Die Ergebnisse lassen eine Korrelation zwischen dem Sucherfolg der Teilnehmer (gemessen an der Zahl relevanter gespeicherter Dokumente) und dem Einsatz von Vorschlägen erkennen. Durch Vorschläge unterstützte Suchende setzten zudem signifikant öf-ter fortgeschrittene Werkzeuge und Optionen des Suchsystems ein -auch nach Abschaltung der Vorschläge während der letzten Aufgabe des Experiments.

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Heuristics for online information retrieval: a typology and preliminary listing

Cited by 33 publications

References 3 publications

Effects of search experience and subject knowledge on the search tactics of novice and experienced searchers

Effects of search experience and subject knowledge on the search tactics of novice and experienced searchers

Interactive thesaurus navigation: Intelligence rules OK?

Interaktives Retrieval und situationsabhängige Vorschläge

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