Physicists' Information Tasks: Structure, Length and Retrieval Performance

TY - CONF

T1 - Physicists' Information Tasks: Structure, Length and Retrieval Performance

AU - Lykke, Marianne

AU - Ingwersen, Peter

AU - Bogers, Toine

AU - Lund, Haakon

AU - Larsen, Birger

N1 - In: Belkin, N. J.Kelly, D.(reds). IIiX'10 Proceeding of the Third Symposium on Information Interaction in Context, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, August 18-21, 2010, p. 347-351. (ISBN: 978-1-4503-0247-0)

PY - 2010

Y1 - 2010

N2 - In this poster, we describe central aspects of 65 natural information tasks from 23 senior researchers, PhDs, and experienced MSc students from three different university departments of physics. We analyze 1) the main purpose of the information task, 2) which and how many search facets were used to describe the tasks, 3) what semantic categories were used to express the search facets, and 4) retrieval performance. Results show variety in structure and length across task descriptions and task purposes. The results indicate effect of length and, in particular, of task purpose on retrieval performance of different document description levels that should be examined further.

AB - In this poster, we describe central aspects of 65 natural information tasks from 23 senior researchers, PhDs, and experienced MSc students from three different university departments of physics. We analyze 1) the main purpose of the information task, 2) which and how many search facets were used to describe the tasks, 3) what semantic categories were used to express the search facets, and 4) retrieval performance. Results show variety in structure and length across task descriptions and task purposes. The results indicate effect of length and, in particular, of task purpose on retrieval performance of different document description levels that should be examined further.

KW - Testsamling

KW - Test collection

U2 - 10.1145/1840784.1840837

DO - 10.1145/1840784.1840837

M3 - Poster

ER -