Article

Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval: Techniques and Evaluation

Authors:

Colum Foley,

Alan F. SmeatonAuthors Info & Claims

ECIR '09: Proceedings of the 31th European Conference on IR Research on Advances in Information Retrieval

Pages 42 - 53

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7_7

Published: 18 April 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval refers to systems that support multiple users searching together at the same time in order to satisfy a shared information need. To date most SCIR systems have focussed on providing various awareness tools in order to enable collaborating users to coordinate the search task. However, requiring users to both search and coordinate the group activity may prove too demanding. On the other hand without effective coordination policies the group search may not be effective. In this paper we propose and evaluate novel system-mediated techniques for coordinating a group search. These techniques allow for an effective division of labour across the group whereby each group member can explore a subset of the search space. We also propose and evaluate techniques to support automated sharing of knowledge across searchers in SCIR, through novel collaborative and complementary relevance feedback techniques. In order to evaluate these techniques, we propose a framework for SCIR evaluation based on simulations. To populate these simulations we extract data from TREC interactive search logs. This work represent the first simulations of SCIR to date and the first such use of this TREC data.

References

[1]

Gianoutsos, S., Grundy, J.: Collaborative work with the World Wide Web: adding CSCW support to a Web browser. In: Proceedings of Oz-CSCW 1996, DSTC Technical Workshop Series, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (1996)

Google Scholar

[2]

Smeaton, A.F., Lee, H., Foley, C., Mc Givney, S.: Collaborative Video Searching on a Tabletop. Multimedia Systems Journal 12(4), 375-391 (2006)

Google Scholar

[3]

Adcock, J., Pickens, J., Cooper, M., Anthony, L., Chen, F., Qvarfordt, P.: FXPAL Interactive Search Experiments for TRECVID 2007. In: TRECVid 2007 - Text REtrieval Conference TRECVID Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA (2007)

Google Scholar

[4]

Pickens, J., Golovchinsky, G., Shah, C., Qvarfordt, P., Back, M.: Algorithmic mediation for collaborative exploratory search. In: SIGIR 2008: Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, Singapore, pp. 315-322. ACM Press, New York (2008)

Crossref

Google Scholar

[5]

Foley, C.: Division of Labour and Sharing of Knowledge for Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval. PhD thesis, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland (2008)

Google Scholar

[6]

Morris, M.R., Horvitz, E.: SearchTogether: an interface for collaborative web search. In: UIST 2007: Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, pp. 3-12. ACM Press, New York (2007)

Crossref

Google Scholar

[7]

Foley, C., Smeaton, A.F., Jones, G.J.F.: Combining Relevance Information in a Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval Environment. In: Collaborative and Social Information Retrieval and Access: Techniques for Improved User Modeling. IGI Global (2008)

Google Scholar

[8]

Robertson, S.E., Spärck Jones, K.: Relevance weighting of search terms. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 27(3), 129-146 (1976)

Google Scholar

[9]

White, R.W., Ruthven, I., Jose, J.M., van Rijsbergen, C.J.: Evaluating implicit feedback models using searcher simulations. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 23(3), 325-361 (2005)

Crossref

Google Scholar

[10]

Aalbersberg, I.J.: Incremental relevance feedback. In: SIGIR 1992: Proceedings of the 15th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 11-22. ACM Press, New York (1992)

Crossref

Google Scholar

[11]

Craswell, N., Zoeter, O., Taylor, M., Ramsey, B.: An experimental comparison of click position-bias models. In: WSDM 2008: Proceedings of the international conference on Web search and web data mining, Palo Alto, California, USA, pp. 87-94. ACM Press, New York (2008)

Crossref

Google Scholar

Cited By

View all

Tamine LSoulier LCarterette BFang HLalmas MNie J(2016)Collaborative Information RetrievalProceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval10.1145/2970398.2970442(7-8)Online publication date: 12-Sep-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2970398.2970442
Soulier LTamine LSakai TAzzopardi LPickens J(2016)Report on the First International Workshop on the Evaluation on Collaborative Information Seeking and Retrieval (ECol'2015)ACM SIGIR Forum10.1145/2964797.296480550:1(42-48)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2964797.2964805
Azzopardi LPickens JSakai TSoulier LTamine LBailey JMoffat AAggarwal Cde Rijke MKumar RMurdock VSellis TYu J(2015)ECol 2015Proceedings of the 24th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management10.1145/2806416.2806881(1943-1944)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2806416.2806881
Show More Cited By

Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval: Techniques and Evaluation
1. Human-centered computing
2. Information systems

Recommendations

Collaborative information retrieval (CIR)
CHI EA '00: CHI '00 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Most information retrieval and management tools have been developed for use by individuals. For example, Web search interfaces, and online catalogs support individual searchers working on their own. In workplace and library settings, however, teamwork ...
Contextual Support for Collaborative Information Retrieval
CHIIR '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

Recent research shows that Collaborative Information Retrieval (CIR), in which two or more users collaborate on the same search task, has become increasingly popular. The presence of both search and collaboration behaviors makes CIR a complex search ...
Collaborative Information Retrieval: Frameworks, Theoretical Models, and Emerging Topics
ICTIR '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval

A great amount of research in the IR domain mostly dealt with both the design of enhanced document ranking models allowing search improvement through user-to-system collaboration. However, in addition to user-to-system form of collaboration, user-to-...

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

ECIR '09: Proceedings of the 31th European Conference on IR Research on Advances in Information Retrieval

April 2009

817 pages

ISBN:9783642009570

Editors:
Mohand Boughanem
Université de Toulouse - IRIT,, Toulouse Cedex 4,, France 31062,
,
Catherine Berrut
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, BP 53,, Université Joseph Fourier,, Grenoble Cedex 9,, France 38041
,
Josiane Mothe
Université de Toulouse - IRIT,, Toulouse Cedex 4,, France 31062
,
Chantal Soule-Dupuy
Université de Toulouse - IRIT,, Toulouse Cedex 4,, France 31062

Publisher

Springer-Verlag

Berlin, Heidelberg

Publication History

Published: 18 April 2009

Qualifiers

Article

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

12
Total Citations
View Citations
0
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)0
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 24 Nov 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all

Tamine LSoulier LCarterette BFang HLalmas MNie J(2016)Collaborative Information RetrievalProceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval10.1145/2970398.2970442(7-8)Online publication date: 12-Sep-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2970398.2970442
Soulier LTamine LSakai TAzzopardi LPickens J(2016)Report on the First International Workshop on the Evaluation on Collaborative Information Seeking and Retrieval (ECol'2015)ACM SIGIR Forum10.1145/2964797.296480550:1(42-48)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2964797.2964805
Azzopardi LPickens JSakai TSoulier LTamine LBailey JMoffat AAggarwal Cde Rijke MKumar RMurdock VSellis TYu J(2015)ECol 2015Proceedings of the 24th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management10.1145/2806416.2806881(1943-1944)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2806416.2806881
Tamine LSoulier LBailey JMoffat AAggarwal Cde Rijke MKumar RMurdock VSellis TYu J(2015)Understanding the Impact of the Role Factor in Collaborative Information RetrievalProceedings of the 24th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management10.1145/2806416.2806481(43-52)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2806416.2806481
Soulier LShah CTamine LGeva STrotman ABruza PClarke CJärvelin K(2014)User-driven system-mediated collaborative information retrievalProceedings of the 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research & development in information retrieval10.1145/2600428.2609598(485-494)Online publication date: 3-Jul-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2600428.2609598
Baskaya FKeskustalo HJärvelin K(2011)Simulating simple and fallible relevance feedbackProceedings of the 33rd European conference on Advances in information retrieval10.5555/1996889.1996965(593-604)Online publication date: 18-Apr-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1996889.1996965
Assent IGolovchinsky GFernández-Luna JHuete JMorris MPickens JRodríguez-Cano J(2011)Efficient algorithms for collaborative decision making for large scale settingsProceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Collaborative information retrieval10.1145/2064075.2064081(15-18)Online publication date: 28-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2064075.2064081
McGuinness KO'Connor N(2011)Toward automated evaluation of interactive segmentationComputer Vision and Image Understanding10.1016/j.cviu.2011.02.011115:6(868-884)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.cviu.2011.02.011
Baskaya FKeskustalo HJärvelin K(2011)Simulating Simple and Fallible Relevance FeedbackProceedings of the 33rd European Conference on Advances in Information Retrieval - Volume 661110.1007/978-3-642-20161-5_59(593-604)Online publication date: 18-Apr-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-20161-5_59
Foley CSmeaton A(2010)Division of labour and sharing of knowledge for synchronous collaborative information retrievalInformation Processing and Management: an International Journal10.1016/j.ipm.2009.10.01046:6(762-772)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.ipm.2009.10.010
Show More Cited By

View Options

View options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Abstract

References

Cited By

Recommendations

Collaborative information retrieval (CIR)

Contextual Support for Collaborative Information Retrieval

Collaborative Information Retrieval: Frameworks, Theoretical Models, and Emerging Topics

Comments

Information

Published In

Publisher

Publication History

Qualifiers

Contributors

Other Metrics

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

Other Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View options

Login options

Full Access

Figures

Other

Share

Share this Publication link

Share on social media

Affiliations