Eliciting better information need descriptions from users of information search systems

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 30-46

  Kelly, Diane ^a   Fu, Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Information needs; Information retrieval system interfaces; Query formulation; User feedback

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); QUERY LANGUAGES;

INFORMATION NEEDS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM INTERFACES; QUERY FORMULATION; USER FEEDBACK;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 33748305522     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2006.03.006     Document Type: Article

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