The vocabulary problem in human-system communication
Communications of the ACM
Advantages of query biased summaries in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Hierarchical presentation of expansion terms
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing
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
Interactive Document Retrieval using Faceted Terminological Feedback
HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 2 - Volume 2
The loquacious user: a document-independent source of terms for query expansion
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Visualization Support for Interactive Query Refinement
WI '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context (The Information Retrieval Series)
Using searcher simulations to redesign a polyrepresentative implicit feedback interface
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Examining the effectiveness of real-time query expansion
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Supporting polyrepresentation in a quantum-inspired geometrical retrieval framework
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
A subjective logic formalisation of the principle of polyrepresentation for information needs
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
On the potential search effectiveness of MeSH (medical subject headings) terms
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
A comparison of user and system query performance predictions
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Exploring the impact of search interface features on search tasks
ECDL'10 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries
A little interaction can go a long way: enriching the query formulation process
ECIR'12 Proceedings of the 34th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Information vs interaction: examining different interaction models over consistent metadata
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
Preliminary experiments using subjective logic for the polyrepresentation of information needs
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
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Interactive Query Expansion (IQE) presents suggested terms to the user during their search to enable better Information Retrieval (IR). However, IQE terms are poorly used, and tend to lack information meaningful to the user. The lack of cognitive and functional support during query refinement is a well documented problem, and despite the work carried out, it is still an under researched area. This stagnation in progress has been partly due to the long held belief that users are able to make good IQE term selections, and that the de facto way IQE terms are presented is effective. In this paper, we introduce a novel method to improve the presentation of IQE terms by providing supplementary information alongside them. We describe a user study that compared our novel polyrepresentational approach to IQE against a conventional IQE system and a baseline system. Our findings have shown that a polyrepresentational approach to IQE can address the ambiguity and uncertainty surrounding IQE, and improve the perceived usefulness of the terms.