2nd International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

Research Article

Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval with Relevance Feedback

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COLCOM.2006.361855,
        author={Colum Foley and Alan F. Smeaton and Hyowon Lee},
        title={Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval with Relevance Feedback},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
        year={2007},
        month={5},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/COLCOM.2006.361855}
    }
    
  • Colum Foley
    Alan F. Smeaton
    Hyowon Lee
    Year: 2007
    Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval with Relevance Feedback
    COLLABORATECOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/COLCOM.2006.361855
Colum Foley1,*, Alan F. Smeaton1, Hyowon Lee1
  • 1: Adaptive Information Cluster and Centre for Digital Video Processing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland.
*Contact email: Colum.Foley@computing.dcu.ie

Abstract

Collaboration has been identified as an important aspect in information seeking. People meet to discuss and share ideas and through this interaction an information need is quite often identified. However the process of resolving this information need, through interacting with a search engine and performing a search task, is still an individual activity. We propose an environment which allows users to collaborate to satisfy a shared information need. We discuss ways to divide the search task amongst collaborators and propose the use of relevance feedback, a common information retrieval process, to enable the transfer of knowledge across collaborators during a search session. We describe the process by which co-searchers can collaborate effectively with little redundancy and how we can combine relevance judgements from multiple searchers into a coherent model for synchronous collaborative information retrieval.