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A study of real-time query expansion effectiveness

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SIGIR '06: Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

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In this poster, we describe the study of an interface technique that provides a list of suggested additional query terms as a searcher types a search query, in effect offering interactive query expansion (IQE) options while the query is formulated. Analysis of the results shows that offering IQE during query formulation leads to better quality initial queries, and an increased uptake of query expansion. These findings have implications for how IQE should be offered in retrieval interfaces.

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      1. Relevance assessment
    2. Information retrieval query processing

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SIGIR '06: Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

August 2006

768 pages

ISBN:1595933697

DOI:10.1145/1148170

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Efthimis N. Efthimiadis
University of Washington
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Susan Dumais
Microsoft Research, Redmond
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David Hawking
CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra, Australia
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Kalervo Järvelin,
University of Tampere, Finland

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Borlund P(2016)A study of the use of simulated work task situations in interactive information retrieval evaluationsJournal of Documentation10.1108/JD-06-2015-006872:3(394-413)Online publication date: 9-May-2016
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