The Turn (eBook)

Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context

Peter Ingwersen, Kalervo Järvelin (Autoren)

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2005 | 2005
XIV, 448 Seiten
Springer Netherland (Verlag)
978-1-4020-3851-8 (ISBN)

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The Turn analyzes the research of information seeking and retrieval (IS&R) and proposes a new direction of integrating research in these two areas: the fields should turn off their separate and narrow paths and construct a new avenue of research. An essential direction for this avenue is context as given in the subtitle Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context. Other essential themes in the book include:

IS&R research models, frameworks and theories; search and works tasks and situations in context; interaction between humans and machines; information acquisition, relevance and information use; research design and methodology based on a structured set of explicit variables - all set into the holistic cognitive approach. The present monograph invites the reader into a construction project - there is much research to do for a contextual understanding of IS&R.

The Turn represents a wide-ranging perspective of IS&R by providing a novel unique research framework, covering both individual and social aspects of information behavior, including the generation, searching, retrieval and use of information. Regarding traditional laboratory information retrieval research, the monograph proposes the extension of research toward actors, search and work tasks, IR interaction and utility of information. Regarding traditional information seeking research, it proposes the extension toward information access technology and work task contexts.

The Turn is the first synthesis of research in the broad area of IS&R ranging from systems oriented laboratory IR research to social science oriented information seeking studies.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements 6
Preface 7
Table of Contents 9
1 Introduction 15
1.1 Motivation and Intention 16
1.2 Laboratory-based Evaluation in IR 18
1.3 Some Problems of Laboratory-based Evaluation in IR 20
1.4 Extension of the Laboratory-based Evaluation in IR 23
1.5 Models in the Domain of IS& R
1.6 The Structure of the Book 30
1.7 Some Central Concepts 33
2 The Cognitive Framework for Information 36
2.1 The Cognitive View 36
2.2 The Cognitive Information Concept in IS& R
2.3 Implications of the Cognitive Information Conception 56
2.4 Information Acquisition: From Sensory Data to Scientific Discovery 60
3 The Development of Information Seeking Research 68
3.1 Research Questions and Findings 69
3.2 Research Methods 99
3.3 Limitations and Open Problems 115
4 System-Oriented Information Retrieval 123
4.1 Models in System-Oriented IR Research 126
4.2 Major Developments of System-oriented IR Research 132
4.3 Documents, Requests and Relevance: Issues and Findings 135
4.4 Indexing, Classification and Clustering: Issues and Findings 142
4.5 Interfaces and Visualization: Issues and Findings 147
4.6 Interaction and Query Modification: Issues and Findings 152
4.7 Natural Language Processing: Issues and Findings 162
4.8. Expert Systems and Interfaces for IR: Issues and Findings 174
4.9 Research Methods 182
4.10. Novel Test Collections and Performance Measures 190
4.11 Limitations and Open Problems 198
5 Cognitive and User-Oriented Information Retrieval 202
5.1 Models for Cognitive IR Research 206
5.2 Cognitive IS& R Theory Building: ASK – Polyrepresentation: Issues and Findings
5.3. Searchers’ Behavior, Cognitive Models and Styles – Issues and Findings 225
5.4. Standard Online IR Interaction – Issues and Findings 228
5.5. Web IR Interaction 236
5.6 Searcher-Associated Best Match IR Interaction 242
5.7 Relevance: Issues and Findings 245
5.8 Research Methods 255
5.9 Interactive IR Evaluation Methods: Simulated Work Task Situations 262
5.10 Central Achievements, Limitations and Open Problems 265
6 The Integrated IS& R Research Framework
6.1 Building the Conceptual Framework 274
6.2 Approaching the complexity of IS& R
6.3 Characteristics of the IS& R model: a summary
7 Implications of the Cognitive Framework for IS& R
7.1 Design and Evaluation Frameworks for IS& R
7.2 Variables of the Organizational Task Dimensions 334
7.3 Actor and Perceived Task Dimensions of Variables 341
7.4 Document and Source Types: Range of Variables 350
7.5 Algorithms and System Components: Dimensions of Variables 354
7.6 Access Types: Variables of Interaction 361
7.7 The Multidimensional Research Design Cube 366
8 Towards a Research Program 368
8.1 Information Objects, IT and Natural Task Contexts 370
8.2 Information Objects, IT and Actors 373
8.3 Information Objects, Interface and Actors 377
8.4 Interfaces, Actors and Socio-organizational Contexts 379
8.5 Methodological Caveats and Summary 383
9 Conclusion 386
Definitions 390
References 402
Index 445

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2005
• Reihe/Serie: The Information Retrieval Series
• Reihe/Serie: The Information Retrieval Series
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 448 p.
• Verlagsort: Dordrecht
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Datenbanken ► Data Warehouse / Data Mining
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Design • Generation • Information Retrieval • Integration • Technology
• ISBN-10: 1-4020-3851-8 / 1402038518
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-3851-8 / 9781402038518