A Re-classification of Information Seeking Tasks and Their Computational Solutions
This work provides a re-classification for researchers in information retrieval, but it is incremental as it builds on existing taxonomies without introducing new methods or data.
The authors tackled the problem of classifying information seeking tasks and computational solutions by proposing a new taxonomy based on dimensions like search iterations and goal types, and reviewed matching machine learning methods and evaluation campaigns.
This article presents a re-classification of information seeking (IS) tasks, concepts, and algorithms. The proposed taxonomy provides new dimensions to look into information seeking tasks and methods. The new dimensions include the number of search iterations, search goal types, and procedures to reach these goals. Differences along these dimensions for the information seeking tasks call for suitable computational solutions. The article then reviews machine learning solutions that match each new category. The paper ends with a review of evaluation campaigns for IS systems.