Another look at automatic text-retrieval systems
Communications of the ACM
An investigation of online searcher traits and their relationship to search outcomes
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Information retrieval interaction
Information retrieval interaction
Factors affecting students' use of MEDLINE
Computers and Biomedical Research
OHSUMED: an interactive retrieval evaluation and new large test collection for research
SIGIR '94 Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Combining the evidence of multiple query representations for information retrieval
TREC-2 Proceedings of the second conference on Text retrieval conference
Optimal document-indexing vocabulary for MEDLINE
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: history of information science
Proceedings of the 9th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
How reliable are the results of large-scale information retrieval experiments?
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Managing gigabytes (2nd ed.): compressing and indexing documents and images
Managing gigabytes (2nd ed.): compressing and indexing documents and images
The intellectual foundation of information organization
The intellectual foundation of information organization
Do batch and user evaluations give the same results?
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Empirical studies of end-user information searching
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Why batch and user evaluations do not give the same results
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Validation of a model of information seeking over multiple search sessions
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Bibliographic database access using free-text and controlled vocabulary: an evaluation
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context (The Information Retrieval Series)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
User performance versus precision measures for simple search tasks
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Using searcher simulations to redesign a polyrepresentative implicit feedback interface
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
User preference: A measure of query-term quality
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Searching in Medline: Query expansion and manual indexing evaluation
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Assessing term effectiveness in the interactive information access process
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Inter and intra-document contexts applied in polyrepresentation for best match IR
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
On test collections for adaptive information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Evaluation of query expansion using MeSH in PubMed
Information Retrieval
Data fusion according to the principle of polyrepresentation
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A polyrepresentational approach to interactive query expansion
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Practical implications of handling multiple contexts in the principle of polyrepresentation
CoLIS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Context: conceptions of Library and Information Sciences
Protocol-driven searches for medical and health-sciences systematic reviews
ICTIR'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Advances in information retrieval theory
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The creation of innovative techniques of document representation is critical to the development of effective information retrieval (IR) systems. In this paper, we report on the impact of state-of-the-art human indexing techniques, exemplified by MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) terms, in the document representation. We studied queries formulated by four different kinds of information seekers interactively using an experimental IR system: (1) search novices; (2) domain experts; (3) search experts and (4) medical librarians. The 3,442,321 documents came from the TREC 2004 Genomics Track document set. Effectiveness of retrieval was measured using the relevance judgments provided by TREC. Inclusion of MeSH terms in the document representation did not affect the effectiveness of queries with respect to precision and recall. Adding MeSH terms to the index did not have a positive impact on the effectiveness of queries formulated by different kinds of users. These findings contribute to our understanding of the associations between the users' cognitive space and the information objects in light of the principle of polyrepresentation.