Towards interactive query expansion
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Information-seeking strategies of novices using a full-text electronic encyclopedia
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Cognitive process as a basis for intelligent retrieval systems design
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A hypertext environment for interacting with large textual databases
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On the evaluation of IR systems
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Braque: design of an interface to support user interaction in information retrieval
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A user-centred evaluation of ranking algorithms for interactive query expansion
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Expanding end-users' query statements for free text searching with a search-aid thesaurus
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Query expansion using lexical-semantic relations
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HIBROWSE for bibliographic database
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Automatic thesaurus generation for an electronic community system
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
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The potential and actual effectiveness of interactive query expansion
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Interaction in information retrieval: selection and effectiveness of search terms
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science
The impact of query structure and query expansion on retrieval performance
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Combining multiple evidence from different types of thesaurus for query expansion
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Interactive query expansion: a user-based evaluation in a relevance feedback environment
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Empirical studies of end-user information searching
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Automatic query expansion via lexical-semantic relationships
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A knowledge-based search engine powered by wikipedia
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Query expansion of zero-hit subject searches: using a thesaurus in conjunction with NLP techniques
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Using Google™ facets as implicit feedback for query expansion in database searching
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Knowledge-Based Systems
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The study reported here investigated the query expansion behavior of end-users interacting with a thesaurus-enhanced search system on the Web. Two groups, namely academic staff and postgraduate students, were recruited into this study. Data were collected from 90 searches performed by 30 users using the OVID interface to the CAB abstracts database. Data-gathering techniques included questionnaires, screen capturing software, and interviews. The results presented here relate to issues of search-topic and search-term characteristics, number and types of expanded queries, usefulness of thesaurus terms, and behavioral differences between academic staff and postgraduate students in their interaction. The key conclusions drawn were that (a) academic staff chose more narrow and synonymous terms than did postgraduate students, who generally selected broader and related terms; (b) topic complexity affected users' interaction with the thesaurus in that complex topics required more query expansion and search term selection; (c) users' prior topic-search experience appeared to have a significant effect on their selection and evaluation of thesaurus terms; (d) in 50% of the searches where additional terms were suggested from the thesaurus, users stated that they had not been aware of the terms at the beginning of the search; this observation was particularly noticeable in the case of postgraduate students. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.