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Cognitive Processes in Query Generation

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Advances in Information Retrieval Theory (ICTIR 2011)

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Known-item search is the search for a specific document that is known to exist. This task is particularly important in Personal Information Management (PIM), where it is the most common search activity. A major obstacle to research in search technologies for PIM is the lack of publicly accessible test corpora. As a potential solution, pseudo-desktop corpora and automatic query generation have been proposed. These approaches though do not take the cognitive processes into account that take place when a user formulates a re-finding query. The human memory is not perfect, and many factors influence a user’s ability to recall information. In this work, we propose a model that accounts for these cognitive processes in the automatic query generation setting.

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  1. WIS, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands

    Claudia Hauff & Geert-Jan Houben

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  1. Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Viale del Policlinico 147, 00161, Rome, Italy

    Giambattista Amati

  2. Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, 6900, Lugano, Switzerland

    Fabio Crestani

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Hauff, C., Houben, GJ. (2011). Cognitive Processes in Query Generation. In: Amati, G., Crestani, F. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval Theory. ICTIR 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6931. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23318-0_17

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