A Study of Information Seeking and Retrieving. I. Background and Methodology; II. Users, Questions, and Effectiveness and III. Searchers, Searches, and Overlap.

Saracevic, Tefko; And Others

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Publication Date: 1988

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A Study of Information Seeking and Retrieving. I. Background and Methodology; II. Users, Questions, and Effectiveness and III. Searchers, Searches, and Overlap.

Saracevic, Tefko; And Others

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v39 n3 p161-216 May 1988

Three articles describe a series of observations and experiments that examined the user context of questions in information retrieval, the structure and classification of questions, cognitive traits and decision-making searchers, and different searches of the same question. (71 references) (Author/CLB)

Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Literature Reviews, Models, Online Searching, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Strategies, Tables (Data), Users (Information)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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