A study of information seeking and retrieving. II. Users, questions, and effectiveness

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A study of information seeking and retrieving. II. Users, questions, and effectiveness
Abstract
The objectives of the study were to conduct a series of observations and experiments under as real-life a situation as possible related to: (1) user context of questions in information retrieval; (2) the structure and classification of questions; (3) cognitive traits and decision making of searchers; and (4) different searches of the same question. The study is presented in three parts: Part I presents the background of the study and describes the models, measures, methods, procedures and statistical analyses used. Part II is devoted to results related to users, questions and effectiveness measures, and Part III to results related to searchers, searches and overlap studies. A concluding summary of all results is presented in Part III. © 1988 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Publication
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Volume
39
Issue
3
Pages
177-196
Date
1988
Language
en
ISSN
1097-4571
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Wiley Online Library
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Copyright © 1988 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Citation
Saracevic, T., & Kantor, P. (1988). A study of information seeking and retrieving. II. Users, questions, and effectiveness. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 39(3), 177–196. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198805)39:3<177::AID-ASI3>3.0.CO;2-F
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