Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
On the evaluation of IR systems
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on evaluation issues in information retrieval
Query expansion using lexical-semantic relations
SIGIR '94 Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Relevance feedback with too much data
SIGIR '95 Proceedings of the 18th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on history of information science
Query expansion using local and global document analysis
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Computer Evaluation of Indexing and Text Processing
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Interactive query expansion: a user-based evaluation in a relevance feedback environment
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Automatic query expansion via lexical-semantic relationships
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Query length in interactive information retrieval
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Analysis of multiple query reformulations on the web: the interactive information retrieval context
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Using query contexts in information retrieval
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Three sequential positions of query repair in interactions with internet search engines
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Measuring improvement in user search performance resulting from optimal search tips
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
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Capturing context within query in query reformulation tasks has been identified as a promising technique for supporting users who are engaged with interactive information retrieval systems. User queries represent the evolution of information problems. A deeper understanding of the structure and process of query reformulation, in particular, could provide further information for system adaptations. The present study characterizes the query reformulation process in two types of term suggestion devices, relevance feedback (RF) and Local Context Analysis (LCA), in simulated question-answering tasks using Rutgers' TREC-8 Interactive Track dataset. Four types of query reformulation were identified on the basis of semantic contents and relations, as well as sequences in users' modifications of queries. We found a significant relationship between the types of query reformulations and the use of term suggestion devices. But we did not find significant correlations between types of query reformulations and search performance. Some issues regarding systematic biases in query reformulations and capturing context within queries in interactive IR system are discussed.