A Probabilistic Model Toward How People Search to Build Outcomes
Although increased attention is being given to understanding how people search to build task outcomes, a formal model of the relation between how people search and how people build task outcomes is still lacking. This paper proposes a unified probabilistic model of how people search to build outcome...
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| author | Yuli Zhao Yuyang Bai Yin Zhang Bin Zhang Pertti Vakkari |
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| description | Although increased attention is being given to understanding how people search to build task outcomes, a formal model of the relation between how people search and how people build task outcomes is still lacking. This paper proposes a unified probabilistic model of how people search to build outcomes. The model involves 3 types of searcher behaviors (i.e., query submission, document selection, and information transformation) to model the effect of the information collected during search, and uses the item response theory to capture the ternary relations between the ability to transform information, the information collected, and the probability of successfully building task outcomes. We evaluate the proposed model in the task of identifying searchers’ proficiencies under the assumption that high proficiency searchers would have high abilities to transform information. The results obtained high accuracies and F1 scores, which could reflect the effectiveness of the proposed model. The model contributes to the formal understanding of how people search to build task outcomes, and provides new possibilities for personalized and session-based information retrieval research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-75bcb70628084937a129720f9e7441e42023-03-10T00:00:13ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-0111224502246710.1109/ACCESS.2023.325236910058194A Probabilistic Model Toward How People Search to Build OutcomesYuli Zhao0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7298-7463Yuyang Bai1https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4363-5350Yin Zhang2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8602-3072Bin Zhang3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8468-3595Pertti Vakkari4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4441-5393Software College, Northeastern University, Shenyang, ChinaSoftware College, Northeastern University, Shenyang, ChinaSoftware College, Northeastern University, Shenyang, ChinaSoftware College, Northeastern University, Shenyang, ChinaFaculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, FinlandAlthough increased attention is being given to understanding how people search to build task outcomes, a formal model of the relation between how people search and how people build task outcomes is still lacking. This paper proposes a unified probabilistic model of how people search to build outcomes. The model involves 3 types of searcher behaviors (i.e., query submission, document selection, and information transformation) to model the effect of the information collected during search, and uses the item response theory to capture the ternary relations between the ability to transform information, the information collected, and the probability of successfully building task outcomes. We evaluate the proposed model in the task of identifying searchers’ proficiencies under the assumption that high proficiency searchers would have high abilities to transform information. The results obtained high accuracies and F1 scores, which could reflect the effectiveness of the proposed model. The model contributes to the formal understanding of how people search to build task outcomes, and provides new possibilities for personalized and session-based information retrieval research.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10058194/Item response theorysearching as learningoutcomes |
| spellingShingle | Yuli Zhao Yuyang Bai Yin Zhang Bin Zhang Pertti Vakkari A Probabilistic Model Toward How People Search to Build Outcomes IEEE Access Item response theory searching as learning outcomes |
| title | A Probabilistic Model Toward How People Search to Build Outcomes |
| title_full | A Probabilistic Model Toward How People Search to Build Outcomes |
| title_fullStr | A Probabilistic Model Toward How People Search to Build Outcomes |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Probabilistic Model Toward How People Search to Build Outcomes |
| title_short | A Probabilistic Model Toward How People Search to Build Outcomes |
| title_sort | probabilistic model toward how people search to build outcomes |
| topic | Item response theory searching as learning outcomes |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10058194/ |
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