The effects on topic familiarity on online search behaviour and use of relevance criteria

Authors:
Lei Wen;Ian Ruthven;Pia Borlund
Affiliations:
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom;Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom;Department of Information Studies, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Aalborg, Denmark
Venue:
ECIR'06 Proceedings of the 28th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper presents an experimental study on the effect of topic familiarity on the assessment behaviour of online searchers. In particular we investigate the effect of topic familiarity on the resources and relevance criteria used by searchers. Our results indicate that searching on an unfamiliar topic leads to use of more generic and fewer specialised resources and that searchers employ different relevance criteria when searching on less familiar topics.