Podcast search: User goals and retrieval technologies

Online Information Review

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 395-419

  Besser, Jana ^a   Larson, Martha ^b   Hofmann, Katja ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Audio media; Information retrieval; Search engines; Speech recognition; User studies

Indexed keywords

AUDIO MEDIA; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DIARY STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FUTURE FRAMEWORK; INDEXING FEATURES; INDEXING METHODS; INFORMED DECISION; LONG TERM; MULTI-METHOD APPROACH; ONLINE SURVEYS; PODCASTS; RESULT ANALYSIS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; RETRIEVAL TECHNOLOGY; SEARCH STRATEGIES; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; USER GOALS; USER NEED; USER STUDY;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METADATA; RESEARCH; SEARCH ENGINES; SURVEYS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77956629726     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684521011054053     Document Type: Article

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