Validating the importance of work tasks as context for professional search

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Abstract

In professional search many work tasks share some structure and are likely to recur. We argue that retrieval in the context of such tasks can exploit prior knowledge about these tasks to serve more relevant results. Understanding why someone searches can help to distill and express the user's information desires. In order to validate the value of this approach, we asked users to judge search results with and without a new search filter that narrowed down the results to documents relevant to the work tasks.Initial results suggest the importance of exploiting work tasks as context for professional search, although future work should consider the extent of this effect.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationJoint Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Professional Search (ProfS2018); the Second Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Semantics for Text Retrieval, Analysis, and Understanding (KG4IR); and the International Workshop on Data Search (DATA:SEARCH18)
Subtitle of host publicationco-located with SIGIR2018
EditorsL. Dietz, L. Koesten, S. Verberne
Place of PublicationAachen, Germany
PublisherCEUR WS
Pages24-28
Number of pages5
Publication statusPublished - 12 Jul 2018

Publication series

NameCEUR Workshop Proceedings
PublisherRuzica Piskac / CEUR-WS.org
Volume2127
ISSN (Electronic)1613-0073

Keywords

  • Information Retrieval
  • search
  • professional
  • knowledge
  • experts
  • interaction

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