Looking for books in social media: An analysis of complex search requests
Publication year
2015Publisher
Berlijn : Springer
ISBN
9783319163543
In
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (2015)Hanbury, A.; Kazai, G.; Rauber, A. (ed.), Proceeding of the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval. Advances in Information Retrieval, pp. 184-196ISSN
Annotation
37th European Conference on Information Retrieval, 29 maart 2015
Publication type
Article in monograph or in proceedings

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Editor(s)
Hanbury, A.
Kazai, G.
Rauber, A.
Fuhr, N.
Organization
Communicatie- en informatiewetenschappen
Journal title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Languages used
English (eng)
Book title
Hanbury, A.; Kazai, G.; Rauber, A. (ed.), Proceeding of the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval. Advances in Information Retrieval
Page start
p. 184
Page end
p. 196
Subject
9022; Language & Speech Technology; Language in Society; NederlabAbstract
Real-world information needs are generally complex, yet almost all research focuses on either relatively simple search based on queries or recommendation based on profiles. It is difficult to gain insight into complex information needs from observational studies with existing systems; potentially complex needs are obscured by the systems' limitations. In this paper we study explicit information requests in social media, focusing on the rich area of social book search. We analyse a large set of annotated book requests from the LibraryThing discussion forums. We investigate
1) the comprehensiveness of book requests on the forums,
2) what relevance aspects are expressed in real-world book search requests, and
3) how different types of search topics are related to types of users, human recommendations, and results returned by retrieval and recommender systems. We find that book search requests combine search and recommendation aspects in intricate ways that require more than only traditional search or (hybrid) recommendation approaches.
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