Searching the Literature: An Analysis of an Exploratory Search Task

Soufan, Ayah; Ruthven, Ian; Azzopardi, Leif

doi:10.1145/3498366.3505818

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“…We then used the model to design a web-based online questionnaire to collect data related to participants' experiences when conducting a literature review task, how literature searches are exploratory, and what factors influence the exploratory dimensions and characteristics. Our analysis of the 368 responses reveals that about 84% of the participants described their literature review task as somewhat exploratory or very exploratory in nature, which confirms previous assertions in the literature that reviewing the literature is indeed exploratory [21].…”

Section: Phase 1: Understanding the Exploratory Searchsupporting

confidence: 81%

“…Moreover, the main characteristic that best describes the exploratory problem context is ill-structured (ill-defined). Furthermore, the characteristics that best describe the search process are opportunistic, multi-tactical, and long-term [21]. Our analysis points to another dimension of the exploratory search, the knowledge gain/change dimension.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…We answered the first research question and partially the second questions by conducting a literature analysis and a user study where we studied the experiences when conducting a literature review [21]. More details are following.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, the literature mentioned some characteristics of the problem context and the search process but did not define or fully explain all of them. Based on our literature analysis [21], we proposed a conceptual model of exploratory search that consists of three main dimensions that describe the exploratory search and have a significant effect on the exploratory levels: users who engage in the exploratory search, the exploratory problem context, and the exploratory search processes. Also, we provided definitions of the fourteen key characteristics of these main dimensions.…”

Section: Phase 1: Understanding the Exploratory Searchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards Understanding and Supporting Exploratory Searches

Soufan

2023

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

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Exploratory search is an intuitive concept in interactive information retrieval. It is known that searchers use exploratory search strategies when learning and investigating a new domain. Many definitions for Exploratory Search have been proposed. However, the main dimensions involve high uncertainty with respect to the problem context, the user expertise, and the search process. In this work, we study exploratory search in the literature, and we provide a conceptual model of exploratory search. We also conduct a user study to examine how literature searches are exploratory and what factors influence the exploratory dimensions and characteristics. Moreover, we review the exploratory support tasks, and we try to better design and evaluate exploratory user interfaces. CCS CONCEPTS• Information systems → Search interfaces.

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Towards Understanding and Supporting Exploratory Searches

Soufan

2023

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

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“…General literature reviews (usually more exploratory than "systematic") are also conducted in the academic setting, often by PhD and Masters students [12,38]. This process enables researchers to familiarise themselves with the current state of the art, theory and methods in their field.…”

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CRUISE-Screening: Living Literature Reviews Toolbox

Kusa,

Knoth,

Hanbury

2023

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

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Keeping up with research and finding related work is still a timeconsuming task for academics. Researchers sift through thousands of studies to identify a few relevant ones. Automation techniques can help by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of this task. To this end, we developed CRUISE-Screening, a web-based application for conducting living literature reviews -a type of literature review that is continuously updated to reflect the latest research in a particular field. CRUISE-Screening is connected to several search engines via an API, which allows for updating the search results periodically. Moreover, it can facilitate the process of screening for relevant publications by using text classification and question answering models. CRUISE-Screening can be used both by researchers conducting literature reviews and by those working on automating the citation screening process to validate their algorithms. The application is open-source, 1 and a demo is available under this URL: https://citation-screening.ec.tuwien.ac.at. We discuss the limitations of our tool in Appendix A.

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Comparative Analysis: User Interactions in Public and Private Digital Libraries Datasets

Zerhoudi,

Granitzer

2024

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Searching the Literature: An Analysis of an Exploratory Search Task

Cited by 14 publications

References 24 publications

Towards Understanding and Supporting Exploratory Searches

Towards Understanding and Supporting Exploratory Searches

CRUISE-Screening: Living Literature Reviews Toolbox

Comparative Analysis: User Interactions in Public and Private Digital Libraries Datasets

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