TY - JOUR TI - A study of information seeking and retrieving. III. Searchers, searches, and overlap AU - Saracevic, Tefko AU - Kantor, Paul T2 - Journal of the American Society for Information Science AB - The objectives of the study were to conduct a series of observations and experiments under as real-life 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) diferent 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. DA - 1988/// PY - 1988 DO - 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198805)39:3<197::AID-ASI4>3.0.CO;2-A DP - Wiley Online Library VL - 39 IS - 3 SP - 197 EP - 216 LA - en SN - 1097-4571 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/%28SICI%291097-4571%28198805%2939%3A3%3C197%3A%3AAID-ASI4%3E3.0.CO%3B2-A Y2 - 2019/01/21/23:49:43 ER -