Cognitive processes in query generation

  • Authors:
  • Claudia Hauff;Geert-Jan Houben

  • Affiliations:
  • WIS, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;WIS, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ICTIR'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Advances in information retrieval theory
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Known-item search is the search for a specific document that is known to exist. This task is particularly important in Personal Information Management (PIM), where it is the most common search activity. A major obstacle to research in search technologies for PIM is the lack of publicly accessible test corpora. As a potential solution, pseudodesktop corpora and automatic query generation have been proposed. These approaches though do not take the cognitive processes into account that take place when a user formulates a re-finding query. The human memory is not perfect, and many factors influence a user's ability to recall information. In this work, we propose a model that accounts for these cognitive processes in the automatic query generation setting.