A language modeling approach to information retrieval
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Combining document representations for known-item search
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Query chains: learning to rank from implicit feedback
Proceedings of the eleventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery in data mining
Learning user interaction models for predicting web search result preferences
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
How do users find things with PubMed?: towards automatic utility evaluation with user simulations
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
What do exploratory searchers look at in a faceted search interface?
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Retrieval experiments using pseudo-desktop collections
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
People searching for people: analysis of a people search engine log
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Overview of the INEX 2010 book track: scaling up the evaluation using crowdsourcing
INEX'10 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Initiative for the evaluation of XML retrieval: comparative evaluation of focused retrieval
ECIR'06 Proceedings of the 28th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
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With the increased availability of e-books and digitized book collections, more users are searching the web for information about books. There are many online digital libraries containing book, author and subject data, which are accessed via internal search services as well as external web sites, such as Google. Although this is a common yet complex information-seeking behavior involving multiple search systems with different characteristics, little is known about how users find information in this scenario. In this work, we analyze web-based book search behavior using three months of logs from the Open Library, a globally accessible digital library. Our study encompasses the user behavior on web search engines and the digital library, unlike previous work which focused on institution-level digital libraries. Among our findings are (1) query characteristics and session-level behaviors are drastically different between internal and external searchers; (2) the field usage is different based on the modes of interaction---keyword search, advanced search interface and faceted filtering; (3) users go through with more iterations of faceted filtering than query reformulation. To facilitate future research on book search, we also create a book search test collection based on the log data. We then perform an evaluation of several retrieval methods, finding that field-based retrieval models have advantages over document-based models.