Task Behaviors During Web Search: The Difficulty of Assigning Labels Export

@article{citeulike:5371002, abstract = {By examining searcher behavior on a large search engine, we have identified seven basic kinds of task behaviors that can be observed in web search session logs. In the studies reported, we first manually labeled 700 complete web sessions, and then subsequently had 23 searchers self-label 252 days of their own sessions to give an accurate picture of what kinds of tasks people are doing when they search. From these two studies, we have found that the most accurate labeling of search task session data is done by the searchers themselves, and that it is very difficult for an external observer or automatic classifier to infer where the task boundaries are or what the actual user task goal is.}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, author = {Russell, Daniel M. and Tang, Diane and Kellar, Melanie and Jeffries, Robin}, citeulike-article-id = {5371002}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.933}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.933}, doi = {10.1109/HICSS.2009.933}, isbn = {978-0-7695-3450-3}, journal = {Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences}, keywords = {ir, tasks, users, web}, pages = {1--5}, posted-at = {2009-08-05 11:43:58}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, title = {Task Behaviors During Web Search: The Difficulty of Assigning Labels}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.933}, volume = {0}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5371002 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5371002 N2 - By examining searcher behavior on a large search engine, we have identified seven basic kinds of task behaviors that can be observed in web search session logs. In the studies reported, we first manually labeled 700 complete web sessions, and then subsequently had 23 searchers self-label 252 days of their own sessions to give an accurate picture of what kinds of tasks people are doing when they search. From these two studies, we have found that the most accurate labeling of search task session data is done by the searchers themselves, and that it is very difficult for an external observer or automatic classifier to infer where the task boundaries are or what the actual user task goal is. JF - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences SN - 978-0-7695-3450-3 AD - Los Alamitos, CA, USA EP - 5 TI - Task Behaviors During Web Search: The Difficulty of Assigning Labels PB - IEEE Computer Society VL - 0 SP - 1 KW - ir KW - tasks KW - users KW - web AU - Russell, Daniel AU - Tang, Diane AU - Kellar, Melanie AU - Jeffries, Robin PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.933 ER -