Effects on topic familiarity on online search behaviour and use of relevance criteria

Lei Wen; Ian Ruthven; Pia Borlund

Effects on topic familiarity on online search behaviour and use of relevance criteria

Lei Wen, Ian Ruthven, Pia Borlund

Department of Communication

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Abstract

This paper presents an experimental study on the effect of topic familiarity on the assessment behaviour of online searchers. In particular we investigate the effect of topic familiarity on the resources and relevance criteria used by searchers. Our results indicate that searching on an unfamiliar topic leads to use of more generic and fewer specialised resources and that searchers employ different relevance criteria when searching on less familiar topics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Information Retrieval : 28th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2006, London, UK, April 10-12, 2006 : Proceedings
Number of pages	4
Place of Publication	Berlin/Heidelberg
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2006
Pages	456-459
ISBN (Print)	3-540-33347-9
Publication status	Published - 2006

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Effects on topic familiarity on online search behaviour and use of relevance criteria. / Wen, Lei; Ruthven, Ian; Borlund, Pia.

Advances in Information Retrieval : 28th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2006, London, UK, April 10-12, 2006 : Proceedings. Berlin/Heidelberg : Springer, 2006. p. 456-459.

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