Rethinking ‘Advanced Search’: A New Approach to Complex Query Formulation

Russell-Rose, Tony; Chamberlain, Jon and Kruschwitz, Udo. 2019. 'Rethinking ‘Advanced Search’: A New Approach to Complex Query Formulation'. In: European Conference on Information Retrieval. Cologne, Germany 14-18 April 2019. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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Abstract or Description

Knowledge workers such as patent agents, recruiters and media monitoring professionals undertake work tasks where search forms a core part of their duties. In these instances, the search task often involves the formulation of complex queries expressed as Boolean strings. However, creating effective Boolean queries remains an ongoing challenge, often compromised by errors and inefficiencies. In this demo paper, we present a new approach to query formulation in which concepts are expressed on a two-dimensional canvas and relationships are articulated using direct manipulation. This has the potential to eliminate many sources of error, makes the query semantics more transparent, and offers new opportunities for query refinement and optimisation

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15719-7_31

Keywords:

query formulation, advanced search, Boolean, search visualisation, professional search

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Computing

Dates:

DateEvent
7 April 2019Published

Event Location:

Cologne, Germany

Date range:

14-18 April 2019

Item ID:

27131

Date Deposited:

14 Oct 2019 08:47

Last Modified:

16 Jun 2021 04:48

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/27131

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