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A Manifesto on Resource Re-Use in Interactive Information Retrieval
This perspective paper on resource re-use intends to draw the attention of the interactive information retrieval (IIR) community to the challenges of research documentation and archiving for future use. Resources are understood as encompassing research designs, research data and research infrastructures. It proposes eight principles for improving the re-use of resources in the IIR community and presents concrete steps on how to achieve them. A five-level system for data archiving and documentation envisions increasingly open and stable documentation and access infrastructures
Conversational Browsing
How can we better understand the mechanisms behind multi-turn information
seeking dialogues? How can we use these insights to design a dialogue system
that does not require explicit query formulation upfront as in question
answering? To answer these questions, we collected observations of human
participants performing a similar task to obtain inspiration for the system
design. Then, we studied the structure of conversations that occurred in these
settings and used the resulting insights to develop a grounded theory, design
and evaluate a first system prototype. Evaluation results show that our
approach is effective and can complement query-based information retrieval
approaches. We contribute new insights about information-seeking behavior by
analyzing and providing automated support for a type of information-seeking
strategy that is effective when the clarity of the information need and
familiarity with the collection content are low
Geographic information extraction from texts
A large volume of unstructured texts, containing valuable geographic information, is available online. This information – provided implicitly or explicitly – is useful not only for scientific studies (e.g., spatial humanities) but also for many practical applications (e.g., geographic information retrieval). Although large progress has been achieved in geographic information extraction from texts, there are still unsolved challenges and issues, ranging from methods, systems, and data, to applications and privacy. Therefore, this workshop will provide a timely opportunity to discuss the recent advances, new ideas, and concepts but also identify research gaps in geographic information extraction