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Analysis of an expert search query log

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Yi Fang,

Naveen Somasundaram,

Luo Si,

Jeongwoo Ko,

Aditya P. MathurAuthors Info & Claims

SIGIR '11: Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval

Pages 1189 - 1190

https://doi.org/10.1145/2009916.2010113

Published: 24 July 2011 Publication History

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Expert search has made rapid progress in modeling, algorithms and evaluations in the recent years. However, there is very few work on analyzing how users interact with expert search systems. In this paper, we conduct analysis of an expert search query log. The aim is to understand the special characteristics of expert search usage. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the earliest work on expert search query log analysis. We find that expert search users generally issue shorter queries, more common queries, and use more advanced search features, with fewer queries in a session, than general Web search users do. This study explores a new research direction in expert search by analyzing and exploiting query logs.

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SIGIR '11: Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval

July 2011

1374 pages

ISBN:9781450307574

DOI:10.1145/2009916

General Chairs:
Wei-Ying Ma
Microsoft Research Asia, China
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Jian-Yun Nie
University of Montreal, Canada
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Yahoo! Research, Spain
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Tat-Seng Chua
National University of Singapore
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W. Bruce Croft
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

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Published: 24 July 2011

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