Re-finding Behaviour in Educational Search

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2019-01-01

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Usta, Arif
Altıngövde, İsmail Sengör
Ozcan, Rifat
ULUSOY, ÖZGÜR

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One of the search tasks in Web search is repeat search behaviour to find out documents that users once visited, which is called re-finding. Although there have been several works in the context of general-purpose Web search addressing the latter phenomena, the problem is usually overlooked for vertical search engines. In this work, we report re-finding and newfinding behaviours of users in an educational search context and compare results with the findings in the literature for general-purpose web search. Our analysis shows that re-finding pattern of students differs from web search drastically as only 26% of all queries indicate re-finding behaviour compared to 40% in Web.

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Vertical search, Re-finding, Query log analysis, Educational search

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/40495

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30760-8_43

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A. Usta, İ. S. Altıngövde, R. Ozcan, and Ö. ULUSOY, “Re-finding Behaviour in Educational Search,” 2019, vol. 11799, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/40495.