Patterns of search: analyzing and modeling Web query refinement
UM '99 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on User modeling
Effective site finding using link anchor information
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Relevant contextual features in XML retrieval
IIiX Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Information interaction in context
Understanding the relationship between searchers' queries and information goals
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Analysis of long queries in a large scale search log
Proceedings of the 2009 workshop on Web Search Click Data
Mining Historic Query Trails to Label Long and Rare Search Engine Queries
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
What and how children search on the web
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Natural language technology and query expansion: issues, state-of-the-art and perspectives
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
A scalable approach for performing proximal search for verbose patent search queries
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Understanding the specificity of web search queries
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Correlating medical-dependent query features with image retrieval models using association rules
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
Googling South African academic publications: search query generation methods
Proceedings of the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference
Analysis of Search and Browsing Behavior of Young Users on the Web
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
When do people use query suggestion? A query suggestion log analysis
Information Retrieval
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When searching, people's information needs flowthrough to expressing an information retrieval request posed to asearch engine. We hypothesise that the degree of specificity of anIR request might correspond to the length of a search query. Ourresults show a strong correlation between decreasing query lengthand increasing broadness or generality of the IR request. We foundan average cross-over point of specificity from broad to narrow of 3words in the query. These results have implications for searchengines in responding to queries of differing lengths.