Effects of Search Experience and Subject Knowledge on the Search Tactics of Novice and Experienced Searchers

By Ingrid Hsieh-Yee. 1993

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From amateurs to connoisseurs: modeling the evolution of user expertise through online reviews (2013, background): “The role of expertise with respect to search behavior is a rich and historied topic, whose study predates the emergence of modern search engines [14].”
Mining Query Logs: Turning Search Usage Data into Knowledge (2010, background): “In the past, there have been studies showing how people interacted with small scale IR systems1 [105, 77, 199, 212].”
The effects of domain knowledge on search tactic formulation (2004, background): “In a study of the search tactics of graduate students from two social science domains, Hsieh-Yee (1993) found that domain knowledge affected the amount of off-line preparation for the search, the amount of time spent monitoring their searches, and the frequency with which terms were combined.”
A review of Web searching studies and a framework for future research (2001, methodology): “The frequently cited studies chosen from traditional IR system research were Hsieh-Yee (1993), Koenemann and Belkin (1996), and Siegfried, Bates and Wilde (1993). The pertinent results from the studies are presented in Table 2. Using only the data from novice searchers, one sees that query length ra”
A survey on the use of relevance feedback for information access systems (2003, background): “Hsieh-Yee (1993) investigated the effect of subject searching experience and topic familiarity in interactive searching with particular reference to how searchers selected search terms.”
Methods for Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems with Users (2009, background): “, [134, 291]), and corpus related variables, such as how many relevant documents are available about a particular topic (e.”
Web search behavior of Internet experts and newbies (2000, background): “, [6]) were able to show that technical competencies in using bibliographic database systems are necessary for successful information retrieval, but that such knowledge has to be combined with background knowledge about the topic area to be searched.”
Characterizing the influence of domain expertise on web search behavior (2009, background): “Hsieh-Yee [13] found that library science students used more of their own search Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that cop”