Ask for Information Retrieval: Part II. Results of a Design Study

By Nicholas J. Belkin, R. N. Oddy, H. Brooks. 1982

In ‘ASK for Information Retrieval: Part I’, we discussed the theory and background to a design study for an information retrieval (IR) system based on the attempt to represent the anomalous states of knowledge (ASKs) underlying information needs. In Part II, we report the methods and results of the design study, and our conclusions.

Subfields: Information Retrieval & Search

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Citations in the corpus

• Experimental components for the evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems (2000, background): “The cognitive revolution is an extension of the process of relevance judgement in which the information need is viewed as a reflection of an anomalous state of knowledge (ASK) [10] on the part of the requester [1].”
• Information Retrieval Evaluation (2011, background): “He and Bob Oddy did a design study [23] to test this model by tape recording interviews with 35 users of the Central Information Services of the University of London and then turning their stated information needs into structural representations of that ASK.”