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Detecting and supporting known item queries in online public access catalogs

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JCDL '05: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries

Pages 91 - 99

https://doi.org/10.1145/1065385.1065406

Published: 07 June 2005 Publication History

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When users seek to find specific resources in a digital library, they often use the library catalog to locate them. These catalog queries are defined as known item queries. As known item queries search for specific resources, it is important to manage them differently from other search types, such as area searches. We study how to identify known item queries in the context of a large academic institution's online public access catalog (OPAC), in which queries are issued via a simple keyword interface. We also examine how to recognize when a known item query has retrieved the item in question. Our approach combines techniques in machine learning, language modeling and machine translation evaluation metrics to build a classifier capable of distinguishing known item queries and correctly classifies titles for whether they are the known item sought with an 80% and 95% correlation to human performance, respectively on each task. To our knowledge, this is the first report of such work, which has the potential to streamline the user interface of both OPACs and digital libraries in support of known item searches.

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Detecting and supporting known item queries in online public access catalogs
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Information retrieval query processing
  2. Information systems applications

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JCDL '05: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries

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DOI:10.1145/1065385

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/asi.23708
Khabsa MWu ZGiles CAdam NCassel BYesha YFuruta RWeigle M(2016)Towards Better Understanding of Academic SearchProceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE-CS on Joint Conference on Digital Libraries10.1145/2910896.2910922(111-114)Online publication date: 19-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2910896.2910922
Aumer‐Ryan PAumer‐Ryan K(2009)Message and messenger: The carrier effect on judgments of credibilityProceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology10.1002/meet.2008.145045033345:1(1-13)Online publication date: 3-Jun-2009
https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.2008.1450450333
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