Searchers and Searchers: Differences between the Most and Least Consistent Searchers.

Mirja Iivonen: Searchers and Searchers: Differences between the Most and Least Consistent Searchers. SIGIR 1995: 149-157

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigir/Iivonen95,
  author    = {Mirja Iivonen},
  editor    = {Edward A. Fox and
               Peter Ingwersen and
               Raya Fidel},
  title     = {Searchers and Searchers: Differences between the Most and Least
               Consistent Searchers},
  booktitle = {SIGIR'95, Proceedings of the 18th Annual International ACM SIGIR
               Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.
                Seattle, Washington, USA, July 9-13, 1995 (Special Issue of
               the SIGIR Forum)},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  year      = {1995},
  isbn      = {0-89791-714-6},
  pages     = {149-157},
  ee        = {db/conf/sigir/Iivonen95.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigir/95},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

Differences between the most and least consistent searchers are considered. Attention is payed both to term-consistency and concept-consistency. The paper is based on an empirical study where 32 searchers formulated query statements from 12 search requests. The searchers were also interviewed to obtain information about their experience. There was a statistically significant dependence between term-consistency and the terminological styles of searchers on the one hand and between concept-consistency and searchers' search strategies on the other hand. There were also clear differences in the experience of most and least consistent searchers both in information storage and information retrieval.

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