Image querying by image professionals: Research Articles Export

@article{citeulike:2760052, abstract = {This article reports the analysis of two samples of search logs from a commercial image provider over a 1-month period. The study analyzes image searches and queries, user query modification strategies, and user browsing and downloading of results. Unique term searches are less frequent than earlier research has shown; descriptive and thematic queries are more common. Boolean searching, although heavily employed, appears to be ineffective and leads to query modifications. Although there was a large amount of query modification (61.7\% of queries across the two samples), the tactics overall do not appear to be carefully thought out and seem to be largely experimental. Given the willingness to modify queries but the inability to do so in an effective way, more support for query modification may be beneficial. {\copyright} 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {J\"{o}rgensen, Corinne and J\"{o}rgensen, Peter}, citeulike-article-id = {2760052}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1085017.1085025}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.v56:12}, doi = {10.1002/asi.v56:12}, issn = {1532-2882}, journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology}, month = {October}, number = {12}, pages = {1346--1359}, posted-at = {2009-09-14 21:00:22}, priority = {2}, publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons, Inc.}, title = {Image querying by image professionals: Research Articles}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.v56:12}, volume = {56}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2760052 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2760052 N2 - This article reports the analysis of two samples of search logs from a commercial image provider over a 1-month period. The study analyzes image searches and queries, user query modification strategies, and user browsing and downloading of results. Unique term searches are less frequent than earlier research has shown; descriptive and thematic queries are more common. Boolean searching, although heavily employed, appears to be ineffective and leads to query modifications. Although there was a large amount of query modification (61.7% of queries across the two samples), the tactics overall do not appear to be carefully thought out and seem to be largely experimental. Given the willingness to modify queries but the inability to do so in an effective way, more support for query modification may be beneficial. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. IS - 12 JF - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology SN - 1532-2882 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 1359 TI - Image querying by image professionals: Research Articles PB - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. VL - 56 SP - 1346 AU - Jörgensen, Corinne AU - Jörgensen, Peter PY - 2005/10// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.v56:12 ER -