Title
Physicists' information tasks: structure, length and retrieval performance.
Abstract
In this poster, we describe central aspects of 65 natural information tasks from 23 senior researchers, PhDs, and experienced MSc students from three different university departments of physics. We analyze 1) the main purpose of the information task, 2) which and how many search facets were used to describe the tasks, 3) what semantic categories were used to express the search facets, and 4) retrieval performance. Results show variety in structure and length across task descriptions and task purposes. The results indicate effect of length and, in particular, of task purpose on retrieval performance of different document description levels that should be examined further.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1840784.1840837
IIiX
Keywords
Field
DocType
information task,retrieval performance,different university department,main purpose,central aspect,task description,information tasks,natural information task,search facets,different document description level,task purpose,search facet
Cognitive models of information retrieval,Human–computer information retrieval,Information retrieval,Computer science
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.39
7
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marianne Lykke165724.81
PETER INGWERSEN22192291.28
Toine Bogers337035.89
Haakon Lund461721.83
Birger Larsen594455.00