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Peer reviewedMoukdad, Haidar; Large, Andrew – Online Information Review, 2001
Describes the results of a transaction log analysis of a Web search engine, WebCrawler, to analyze user's queries for information retrieval. Results suggest most users do not employ advanced search features, and the linguistic structure often resembles a human-human communication model that is not always successful in human-computer communication.…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Information Retrieval, Linguistics, Man Machine Systems
