Interactive query expansion for professional search applications
Russell-Rose, T. ORCID: 0000-0003-4394-9876, Gooch, P. & Kruschwitz, U. (2021). Interactive query expansion for professional search applications. Business Information Review, 38(3), pp. 127-137. doi: 10.1177/02663821211034079
Abstract
Knowledge workers (such as healthcare information professionals, patent agents and recruitment professionals) undertake work tasks where search forms a core part of their duties. In these instances, the search task is often complex and time-consuming and requires specialist expert knowledge to formulate accurate search strategies. Interactive features such as query expansion can play a key role in supporting these tasks. However, generating query suggestions within a professional search context requires that consideration be given to the specialist, structured nature of the search strategies they employ. In this paper, we investigate a variety of query expansion methods applied to a collection of Boolean search strategies used in a variety of real-world professional search tasks. The results demonstrate the utility of context-free distributional language models and the value of using linguistic cues to optimise the balance between precision and recall.
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Publisher Keywords: | Information retrieval, machine learning, natural language processing, ontologies, professional search, query expansion |
Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
Departments: | School of Science & Technology School of Science & Technology > Computer Science |
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