TY - GEN
T1 - Extracting information seeking intentions for web search sessions
AU - Mitsui, Matthew
AU - Shah, Chirag
AU - Belkin, Nicholas J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 ACM.
PY - 2016/7/7
Y1 - 2016/7/7
N2 - We present a method for extracting the self-reported intentions of users engaged in an information seeking episode. We recruited participants to conduct search sessions and subsequently asked them to self-report their intentions. A total of 27 users participated in a lab study, during which they worked on two search tasks. After each search session, participants indicated their intentions during that session while viewing a video replay. Results indicate that the set of search intentions provided to participants was sufficient to account for intentions in four journalism-related information seeking tasks: a copy editing task, interview preparation task, relationships task, and story pitch task. The results also suggest regular patterns in intentions that can be exploited for identification of task type as well as potential applications to personalization and recommendation during a search episode.
AB - We present a method for extracting the self-reported intentions of users engaged in an information seeking episode. We recruited participants to conduct search sessions and subsequently asked them to self-report their intentions. A total of 27 users participated in a lab study, during which they worked on two search tasks. After each search session, participants indicated their intentions during that session while viewing a video replay. Results indicate that the set of search intentions provided to participants was sufficient to account for intentions in four journalism-related information seeking tasks: a copy editing task, interview preparation task, relationships task, and story pitch task. The results also suggest regular patterns in intentions that can be exploited for identification of task type as well as potential applications to personalization and recommendation during a search episode.
KW - Information seeking episode
KW - Information seeking intentions
KW - Motivating task
KW - Search intentions
KW - Search session analysis
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U2 - 10.1145/2911451.2914746
DO - 10.1145/2911451.2914746
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84980351293
T3 - SIGIR 2016 - Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
SP - 841
EP - 844
BT - SIGIR 2016 - Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2016
Y2 - 17 July 2016 through 21 July 2016
ER -