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Information Retrieval Interaction
, 1992
"... this document, text or image about?' Gradually moving from the left to the right in Figure 3.1, different understandings of this concept evolve ..."
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this document, text or image about?' Gradually moving from the left to the right in Figure 3.1, different understandings of this concept evolve
Cognitive perspectives of information retrieval interaction: elements of a cognitive IR theory
- Journal of Documentation
, 1996
"... The objective of the paper is to amalgamate theories of text retrieval from various research traditions into a cognitive theory for information retrieval interaction. Set in a cognitive framework, the paper outlines the concept of polyrepresentation applied to both the user's cognitive space an ..."
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The objective of the paper is to amalgamate theories of text retrieval from various research traditions into a cognitive theory for information retrieval interaction. Set in a cognitive framework, the paper outlines the concept of polyrepresentation applied to both the user's cognitive space and the information space of IR systems. The concept seeks to represent the current user's information need, problem state, and domain work task or interest in a structure of causality. Further, it implies that we should apply different methods of representation and a variety of IR techniques of different cognitive and functional origin simultaneously to each semantic full-text entity in the information space. The cognitive differences imply that by applying cognitive overlaps of information objects, originating from different interpretations of such objects through time and by type, the degree of uncertainty inherent in IR is decreased. Polyrepresentation and the use of cognitive overlaps are associated with, but not identical to, data
Information Archiving with Bookmarks: Personal Web Space Construction and Organization
- ACM SIGCHI '98
, 1998
"... Bookmarks are used as "personal Web information spaces" to help people remember and retrieve interesting Web pages. A study of personal Web information spaces surveyed 322 Web users and analyzed the bookmark archives of 50 Web users. The results of this study are used to address why people ..."
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Bookmarks are used as "personal Web information spaces" to help people remember and retrieve interesting Web pages. A study of personal Web information spaces surveyed 322 Web users and analyzed the bookmark archives of 50 Web users. The results of this study are used to address why people make bookmarks, and how they create, use, and organize them. Recommendations for improving the organization, visualization, representation, and integration of bookmarks are provided. The recommendations include simple mechanisms for filing bookmarks at creation time, the use of time-based visualizations with automated filters, the use of contextual information in representing bookmarks, and the combination of hierarchy formation and Web page authoring to aid in organizing and viewing bookmarks.
Information Foraging
- Psychological Review
, 1999
"... Information foraging theory is an approach to understanding how strategies and technologies for information seeking, gathering, and consumption are adapted to the flux of information in the environment. The theory assumes that people, when possible, will modify their strategies or the structure of t ..."
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Information foraging theory is an approach to understanding how strategies and technologies for information seeking, gathering, and consumption are adapted to the flux of information in the environment. The theory assumes that people, when possible, will modify their strategies or the structure of the environment to maximize their rate of gaining valuable information. The theory is developed by (a) adaptation (rational) analysis of information foraging problems and (b) a detailed process model (adaptive control of thought in information foraging [ACT-IF]). The adaptation analysis develops (a) information patch models, which deal with time allocation and information filtering and enrichment activities in environments in which information is encountered in clusters; (b) information scent models, which address the identification of information value from proximal cues; and (c) information diet models, which address decisions about the selection and pursuit of information items. ACT-IF is instantiated as a production system model of people interacting with complex information technology. Humans actively seek, gather, share, and consume information to a degree unapproached by other organisms. Ours might properly be characterized as a species of informavores (Dennett, 1991). Our adaptive success depends to a large extent on a vast and complex
User-defined relevance criteria: an exploratory study
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science
, 1994
"... The objective of this study was to describe the cri-teria mentioned by users evaluating the informa-tion within documents as it related to the users’ information need situations. Data were collected by asking users in an academic environment to evaiu-ate representations and the full text of document ..."
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The objective of this study was to describe the cri-teria mentioned by users evaluating the informa-tion within documents as it related to the users’ information need situations. Data were collected by asking users in an academic environment to evaiu-ate representations and the full text of documents that had been retrieved specifically for each user’s information need situation. Users were asked to mark the portions of the document representations or of the full text of documents that indicated to the users whether they would or would not pursue the in-formation within documents. An open-ended inter-view technique was then employed to discuss each marked portion with users. The interviews were au-diotaped, the tapes transcribed, and the transcrip-
Experimental components for the evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems
- Journal of Documentation
, 2000
"... 1988, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher. ..."
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1988, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Relevance: A review of the literature and a framework for thinking on the notion in information science
- Eds.), Advances in Librarianship 6
, 1976
"... Relevance is a, if not even the, key notion in information science in general and information retrieval in particular. This two-part critical review traces and synthesizes the scholarship on relevance over the past 30 years or so and provides an updated framework within which the still widely disson ..."
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Relevance is a, if not even the, key notion in information science in general and information retrieval in particular. This two-part critical review traces and synthesizes the scholarship on relevance over the past 30 years or so and provides an updated framework within which the still widely dissonant ideas and works about relevance might be interpreted and related. It is a continuation and update of a similar review that appeared in 1975 under the same title, considered here as being Part I. The present review is organized in two parts: Part II addresses the questions related to nature and manifestations of relevance, and Part III addresses questions related to relevance behavior and effects. In Part II, the nature of relevance is discussed in terms of meaning ascribed to relevance, theories used or proposed, and models that have been developed. The
The concept of relevance in IR
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
, 2003
"... This article introduces the concept of relevance as viewed and applied in the context of IR evaluation, by presenting an overview of the multidimensional and dy-namic nature of the concept. The literature on relevance reveals how the relevance concept, especially in regard to the multidimensionality ..."
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This article introduces the concept of relevance as viewed and applied in the context of IR evaluation, by presenting an overview of the multidimensional and dy-namic nature of the concept. The literature on relevance reveals how the relevance concept, especially in regard to the multidimensionality of relevance, is many faceted, and does not just refer to the various relevance criteria users may apply in the process of judging relevance of retrieved information objects. From our point of view, the multidimensionality of relevance explains why some will argue that no consensus has been reached on the relevance concept. Thus, the objective of this article is to present an overview of the many different views and ways by which the concept of relevance is used—lead-ing to a consistent and compatible understanding of the concept. In addition, special attention is paid to the type of situational relevance. Many researchers perceive sit-uational relevance as the most realistic type of user relevance, and therefore situational relevance is dis-cussed with reference to its potential dynamic nature, and as a requirement for interactive information retrieval (IIR) evaluation.
The development of a method for the evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems
- Journal of Documentation
, 1997
"... 1988, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher. ..."
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1988, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher.
