Characterizing the influence of domain expertise on web search behavior

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From amateurs to connoisseurs: modeling the evolution of user expertise through online reviews (2013, background): “Of particular interest is [38], since the authors study how users evolve (with respect to the level of technical content in their queries) as they gain expertise.”
Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries (2019, background): “This is problematic as there are known differences in how non-experts and experts interact with and validate systems outputs (White et al., 2009; Patton et al., 2019), particularly for critical application domains such as health.”
Information Retrieval Evaluation (2011, background): “[197] looking at how domain expertise affects the way people search the web is an excellent example of careful data partitioning.”
Exploratory Search: Beyond the Query-Response Paradigm (2009, background): “The search experience is tailored to the individual searcher based on inferences made about result complexity and searcher-appropriateness given their estimated level of domain expertise (White et al., 2009).”