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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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:	Date Event 7 April 2019 Published
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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