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Role-based results redistribution for collaborative information retrieval

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Jeremy Pickens,

Gene GolovchinskyAuthors Info & Claims

Information Processing and Management: an International Journal, Volume 46, Issue 6

Pages 773 - 781

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2009.10.002

Published: 01 November 2010 Publication History

Abstract

We describe a new approach for algorithmic mediation of a collaborative search process. Unlike most approaches to collaborative IR, we are designing systems that mediate explicitly-defined synchronous collaboration among small groups of searchers with a shared information need. Such functionality is provided by first obtaining different rank-lists based on searchers' queries, fusing these rank-lists, and then splitting the combined list to distribute documents among collaborators according to their roles. For the work reported here, we consider the case of two people collaborating on a search. We assign them roles of Gatherer and Surveyor: the Gatherer is tasked with exploring highly promising information on a given topic, and the Surveyor is tasked with digging further to explore more diverse information. We demonstrate how our technique provides the Gatherer with high-precision results, and the Surveyor with information that is high in entropy.

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