Deconstructing search tasks in interactive information retrieval: A systematic review of task dimensions and predictors

J Liu - Information Processing & Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Increasingly, users are interacting with information retrieval (IR) systems with the goal of
addressing complex, ill-defined search tasks. As a result, the interest in deconstructing and …

Development and evaluation of search tasks for IIR experiments using a cognitive complexity framework

D Kelly, J Arguello, A Edwards, W Wu - Proceedings of the 2015 …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
One of the most challenging aspects of designing interactive information retrieval (IIR)
experiments with users is the development of search tasks. We describe an evaluation of 20 …

Measuring and predicting search engine users' satisfaction

O Dan, BD Davison - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2016 - dl.acm.org
Search satisfaction is defined as the fulfillment of a user's information need. Characterizing
and predicting the satisfaction of search engine users is vital for improving ranking models …

Searching, browsing, and clicking in a search session: changes in user behavior by task and over time

J Jiang, D He, J Allan - Proceedings of the 37th international ACM SIGIR …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
There are many existing studies of user behavior in simple tasks (eg, navigational and
informational search) within a short duration of 1--2 queries. However, we know relatively …

Untangling search task complexity and difficulty in the context of interactive information retrieval studies

B Wildemuth, L Freund, E G. Toms - Journal of Documentation, 2014 - emerald.com
Purpose–One core element of interactive information retrieval (IIR) experiments is the
assignment of search tasks. The purpose of this paper is to provide an analytical review of …

Understanding and predicting graded search satisfaction

J Jiang, A Hassan Awadallah, X Shi… - Proceedings of the eighth …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Understanding and estimating satisfaction with search engines is an important aspect of
evaluating retrieval performance. Research to date has modeled and predicted search …

Investigating user behavior in legal case retrieval

Y Shao, Y Wu, Y Liu, J Mao, M Zhang… - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Legal case retrieval is a specialized IR task aiming to retrieve supporting cases given a
query case. While recent research efforts are committed to improving the automatic retrieval …

Predicting search task difficulty

J Arguello - European conference on information retrieval, 2014 - Springer
Search task difficulty refers to a user's assessment about the amount of effort required to
complete a search task. Our goal in this work is to learn predictive models of search task …

Task duration estimation

RW White, A Hassan Awadallah - … Conference on Web Search and Data …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Estimating how long a task will take to complete (ie, the task duration) is important for many
applications, including calendaring and project management. Population-scale calendar …

Predicting information seeking intentions from search behaviors

M Mitsui, J Liu, NJ Belkin, C Shah - … of the 40th international acm sigir …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
It has been shown that people attempt to accomplish a variety of intentions during the course
of an information seeking session, and there is reason to believe that these different …