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Keyword Search: Quite Exploratory Actually

Keyword Search: Quite Exploratory Actually
Keyword Search: Quite Exploratory Actually
This short position paper describes some evidence found that counters the argument that there are better ways to support exploratory search than keyword search. Instead, this paper suggests that keyword search actually provides people with the freedom to search in relation to their own current state of understanding, rather than in the terms controlled by a search system. The challenge for future exploratory search systems, therefore, may be to maintain and enhance such freedoms.
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Wilson, Max L.
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Wilson, Max L.
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Wilson, Max L. (2009) Keyword Search: Quite Exploratory Actually. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR'09), Washington DC. pp. 106-108 .

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This short position paper describes some evidence found that counters the argument that there are better ways to support exploratory search than keyword search. Instead, this paper suggests that keyword search actually provides people with the freedom to search in relation to their own current state of understanding, rather than in the terms controlled by a search system. The challenge for future exploratory search systems, therefore, may be to maintain and enhance such freedoms.

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Published date: October 2009
Additional Information: Event Dates: 23rd October 2009
Venue - Dates: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR'09), Washington DC, 2009-10-23
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science

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Local EPrints ID: 267951
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/267951
PURE UUID: 0b1e3e14-98f4-471c-b8b8-68d04095f817

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Date deposited: 24 Sep 2009 14:22
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 09:02

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Author: Max L. Wilson

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